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Place in Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Ainab

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

Ainab
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Ainab
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Amman → Ainab
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tel Aviv → Ainab
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · ₪17–23
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    383 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    466 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    594 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    604 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    983 km

If you know how people move in Ainab – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ainab

Ainab is 15 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.