Ainab
Ainab, is a town on the western slopes of Mount Lebanon overlooking Beirut.

Ainab, is a town on the western slopes of Mount Lebanon overlooking Beirut. It is in the Aley District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Beirut, on the road South from Aley.
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Getting to Ainab
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 8 km · Damascus (DAM), 98 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 204 km
- Damascus → AinabTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Amman → AinabTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tel Aviv → Ainab44 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · ₪17–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ainab
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ainab. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPublic transport There are regular public minivans (usually every five-ten minutes) that go to the Downtown area and to the Charles Helou Station from the airport.
- Get aroundService [ser-vee-s] are shared-taxis, the same taxis as above but shared between four or more people.
- Get aroundThe OCFTC that operates a fleet of blue and white city-buses, and the LCC with a fleet of red and white minibuses; Bus fares cost either LL500 (OCFTC bus 24) or LL1000.
From Wikivoyage: Beirut, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Ainab
Ainab is 15 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.