--- title: "Eilat – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Eilat from Tel Aviv, Sharm El Sheikh and Sharma: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Eilat is Israel's southernmost…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/eilat" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/eilat.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Eilat_night_hotels_2016.jpg/3840px-Eilat_night_hotels_2016.jpg" --- ![Eilat](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Eilat_night_hotels_2016.jpg/3840px-Eilat_night_hotels_2016.jpg) # Eilat Eilat is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of 56,004, a port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba. [Plan a trip to Eilat](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Eilat) [From Tel Aviv](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Eilat) ## Every way there - Tel Aviv → Eilat 281 km · quickest by air, 3h 8m · ₪260–410 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tel-aviv-to-eilat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tel+Aviv&to=Eilat) - Sharm El Sheikh → Eilat 199 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · E£320–425 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sharm-el-sheikh-to-eilat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sharm+El+Sheikh&to=Eilat) - Sharma → Eilat Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sharma-to-eilat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sharma&to=Eilat) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Eilat, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Eilat](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eilat) What Eilat has - Y Scheduled flights Aqaba (AQJ), 9 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time - Y Ferries– Taba – Aqaba, 17 km, AB Maritime; sailings estimated - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 29.557°, 34.952° The city is considered a tourist destination for domestic and international tourists heading to Israel. Get in ## Getting to Eilat While Eilat is - for a country as small as Israel at least - far away from the rest of the country, the government is subsidizing international flights and the border crossings to/from Jordan and Egypt are a lot less hassle than one might expect, making Eilat surprisingly easy to reach - if not necessarily from the rest of Israel. See ## Worth seeing The Do ## Things to do Every summer, the Red City music festival is held in Eilat (sponsored by 99 ESC radio station.) This beach festival is held on the beach and consists of consecutive days of all night performances (Hip-Hop, rock and especially trance). Red Sea Jazz Festival. Annual event takes place in the last week of August and Jazz musicians from all over the world come to Eilat, for a week of fun, sun and lots of Jazz. 1. Ice Mall Eilat A shopping mall with an ice skating rink. 2. SPNI's Eilat Hiking Division Eat ## Where to eat The main promenade is packed with stylish tourist restaurants offering some of Israel's finest cuisine prepared by master chefs. The variety of restaurants understandably comes at a price, though not as expensive as many restaurants in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. As a rule prices are lower the further away from the tourist areas one goes. 1. Pizza Kimat Hinam 2. Baguette Dolphin 3. Thai Corner 4. Falafel 'Blue' Boutique Sderot HaTmarim 107. 5. Itzik Shawarma Sderot HaTmarim 37. How locals move ## Getting around Eilat the local way - Go next On the Egyptian side there is a minibus station as well as further along a full bus station. From [Wikivoyage: Eilat](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Eilat), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilat) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Eilat), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/eilat, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt