Baabda
Baabda is the capital city of Baabda District and Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon.
Baabda is the capital city of Baabda District and Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon. Baabda was also the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon that existed from 1861 to 1918.
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Getting to Baabda
- Airports
- Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 5 km · Damascus (DAM), 102 km · Larnaca (LCA), 211 km
- Damascus → Baabda78 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $8–12
- Amman → Baabda212 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · JD11–15
- Larnaca → Baabda213 km · quickest by road, 16h 50m · €90–125
- 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 Baabda
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 Baabda. 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 Baabda
Baabda is 8 km from Beirut, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.