Where to Stay in Eilat, Southern District

What is Eilat known for?

Eilat is best known as the southernmost resort city of the Southern District, a young town built for leisure at the tip of the country. The setting is pure desert. Its promenades and waterfront draw visitors to Terminal Park Eilat and the Birding center in Eilat, where migrating flocks pass over the town, while the Eilat Museum tells the story of a settlement founded from almost nothing.

Family attractions round out the scene, from the Eilat Sports Center to the rides of Miniland Luna Park.

What are the main landmarks in Eilat?

The main landmarks in Eilat spread between the waterfront and the desert edge of the Southern District. The Eilat Museum records the town's short, deliberate history near the centre. Water and desert meet here.

Terminal Park Eilat and the promenades follow the shoreline, while the Birding center in Eilat sits where migrating birds cross the town, and the Eilat Sports Center, the Museum of Erotica, and Miniland Luna Park anchor the visitor attractions of a city built for leisure.

What is the history of Eilat?

Eilat is one of the newest cities in the Southern District, founded in 1951 at the southern tip of the country on the site of the old outpost of Umm Rashrash. It began almost from nothing. That small post on the desert shore grew into a planned town in the years after its founding, and the settlement spread from the waterfront up the slope behind it.

The Eilat Museum keeps the record of those first decades and the people who built the place. From a handful of buildings the town grew into a resort city over the following years. Leisure shaped its later growth.

Promenades, hotels, and attractions such as Miniland Luna Park and the Eilat Sports Center were laid out along the shore for visitors, and Terminal Park Eilat and the Birding center in Eilat mark the newer edges of a city that has spread across the desert flats from its small beginning by the water.

Where is Eilat?

Eilat lies at the southern tip of the Southern District, where the desert meets the water. Bare hills back the shore. The town sits on a narrow shelf of flat ground between the slopes and the bay, with the waterfront and Terminal Park Eilat along the shoreline and the older neighbourhoods climbing the rise behind.

Beyond the built edge the open desert of the Southern District runs inland, dry and rocky, so the city holds a thin strip between mountain and sea.

What is the climate of Eilat?

Eilat has a hot desert climate at the southern end of the Southern District. Summers are long and intensely hot. Rain almost never falls, and the dry air and clear sky hold heat over the town and the bare hills around it through most of the year.

Winters are short and warm by day, a mild season that keeps the waterfront and Terminal Park Eilat comfortable while much of the country turns cool.

How do you get to Eilat?

Eilat sits far south of the rest of the Southern District, reached mainly by the long desert highway. Buses run the route down from the north, crossing the dry country to the town by the water. The road is the main link.

From the arrival points the compact city puts the waterfront, the Eilat Museum, and Terminal Park Eilat within a short ride or walk, and local buses connect the older town on the slope with the shore below.