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![El Arish](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/El_Arish_Tavern%2C_El_Arish%2C_Queensland%2C_2016.jpg)

# El Arish

El Arish is a rural town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[Plan a trip to El Arish](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=El%20Arish) [From Cairns](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cairns&to=El+Arish)

## Every way there

- Cairns → El Arish 101 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · A$15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cairns-to-el-arish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cairns&to=El+Arish)
- Port Moresby → El Arish 12768 km · quickest by air, 28h 3m · $1,080–1,780 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/port-moresby-to-el-arish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Port+Moresby&to=El+Arish)
- Maroochydore → El Arish 14157 km · quickest by air, 30h 53m · A$1,370–2,580 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/maroochydore-to-el-arish) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Maroochydore&to=El+Arish)

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 El Arish, 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 El Arish](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/el-arish)

What El Arish has

- Y Scheduled flights Cairns (CNS), 106 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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. Nearest place with more: Cairns, 101 km.

-17.804°, 146.006°

In the 2021 census, the locality of El Arish had a population of 337 people.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Arish%2C_Queensland), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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