Taxi to Tel Aviv
A taxi to Tel Aviv is the one thing you can settle before you fly: someone is already expecting you, holding a card with your name, and the fare runs on the official meter in shekels, not on a price agreed at the curb. We drive day and night, Sunday through Friday.
A taxi to Tel Aviv from Ben Gurion Airport runs about 24 km and 29 minutes, from ₪140 by day; from Jerusalem it is about 67 km and 64 minutes, from ₪370. Fares are metered in shekels, per car and not per seat. Service covers every hour from Sunday to Friday, and none of Shabbat or the holidays. Book by WhatsApp with your flight number.
Price for a regular taxi (up to 4 passengers) from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv: from ₪140 by day (tariff 1), about ₪160 at night and about ₪190 late on Thursday night, or after Shabbat or a holiday ends — official 2026 taxi-meter tariff; ~24 km, ~29 min.
From ₪140. Name sign waiting in the Terminal 3 arrivals hall · Your real landing time is tracked, not the schedule
- ~24 km
- ~29 min
- Route 1 → Ayalon Highway (Route 20)
- Official 2026 meter tariff
Taxi to Tel Aviv: what it costs, how long it takes and how the pickup works
Landing after a long flight is when everything unfamiliar arrives at once: a language you do not read, a currency you have never handled, and an arrivals hall full of people waiting for somebody else. Booking a taxi to Tel Aviv before you leave home takes that hour out of the trip. Somebody is waiting for you by name, the cases go into the car, and the number you pay at the end is the one the official meter shows.
Meeting your driver at Ben Gurion Airport (TLV)
- Book with the flight number in front of you. Terminal 1 handles part of the low-cost traffic, so the form asks which terminal you land at.
- Your booking is tied to the aircraft, not to the hour printed on your ticket. We check the live arrival, and the driver is told when the plane is actually on the ground.
- Walk out into the Terminal 3 arrivals hall. The driver is standing there with a sign showing your name, and takes the luggage from you.
- The drive is about 24 km and roughly 29 minutes in normal traffic, from ₪140 by day for up to four passengers, with the ₪5 airport departure surcharge already inside that figure.
Arrivals that go sideways are worth reading about before you fly: our guide to Ben Gurion airport pickups, delays and Friday landings covers the awkward ones, and the taxi from Ben Gurion Airport page follows the arrival step by step.
Coming in from the ports, the coast and Jerusalem
Cruise passengers reach the city from two working ports. A taxi to Tel Aviv from Ashdod Port covers about 42 km in roughly 47 minutes, from ₪240; from Haifa Port it is about 103 km and about 80 minutes, from ₪540. At both, the driver waits at the port's passenger gate holding a name sign rather than in a rank, and the whole day is timed around your all-aboard hour — the cruise port transfers page explains how a shore day is put together.
Overland, Jerusalem is about 67 km and 64 minutes away, from ₪370, a run described in full on the Jerusalem to Tel Aviv taxi page, and Beit Shemesh is about 54 km and 48 minutes, from ₪290. From the north, Haifa is about 93 km and 71 minutes, from ₪490, mostly along the coastal Route 2; Netanya is about 31 km and 36 minutes, from ₪180; Herzliya about 14 km and 24 minutes, from ₪100. The longest of them all is Ein Bokek on the Dead Sea, about 173 km and roughly 122 minutes, from ₪890.
Shabbat, holidays and the hours we drive
This is the part visitors are least likely to expect. Our week has a hard stop in it: the cars run right through the night from Sunday until Friday, and then stand still for Shabbat and Jewish holidays. If your plans fall inside Shabbat, the first ride we can give you is a booked one after Shabbat or the holiday goes out. The meter keeps the same calendar, and the digit on it is set by the clock, not by the passenger. You will see a 1 on weekdays from 06:00 to 21:00, a window that closes at 16:00 on Fridays and holiday eves; from 16:01 on those eves until Shabbat or the holiday begins, and through the night from 21:01 to 05:59, the meter reads 2 and costs more. The 3 belongs to Thursday nights after 23:00 and to the hours after Shabbat or a holiday ends.
Traveling as a group, or with small children
What decides the car is not only how many of you there are but how much you are carrying: a couple landing with a stroller and a month of luggage can need more room than four people with cabin bags. Above four passengers the choice is a 6-seat large taxi, a 10-seat van or a 19-seat minibus, each quoted on its own, so the price is confirmed within minutes — start on the large taxi and van page. A baby seat or booster for any age is on request when you book, subject to availability, ₪50 per seat. Every tariff we charge is published in the taxi price list 2026.
Taxi price from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv
Day · tariff 1
From ₪140
Sun–Thu 06:00–21:00, Fri to 16:00
Night · tariff 2
From ₪160
Nights, Fri & holiday-eve afternoon; until 19:00 after Shabbat or a holiday
Late night / after Shabbat or a holiday · tariff 3
From ₪190
Thu from 23:01; after Shabbat or a holiday from 19:01
Regular taxi, up to 4 passengers, official meter estimate incl. the order fee; the final price is confirmed when you book.
Route facts
- Distance
- ~24 km
- Travel time
- ~29 min in normal traffic
- Price (regular taxi)
- From ₪140 day · ₪160 night · ₪190 late night / after Shabbat or a holiday
- Meeting point
- Terminal 3 arrivals hall with a name sign; at Ashdod and Haifa, the port's passenger gate
- Availability
- 24 hours a day, Sunday–Friday; no service on Shabbat or Jewish holidays (rides resume when Shabbat or the holiday ends, by advance booking)
- Capacity
- Up to 4 passengers; large taxi 6, van 10 or minibus 19 seats on request
- Payment
- Cash, Bit or PayBox to the driver; credit card only through a payment link, with a 10% surcharge; bank transfer only in advance; a tax invoice for every payment, by email
- Booking
- Site calculator, WhatsApp or phone +972-50-912-2133
How the meter works, and why nobody haggles
An Israeli taxi is a metered ride, not a negotiated one, which is the short answer to the question most visitors are bracing for at the curb. The rate is fixed by an official tariff and changes with the hour of the week, so there is no version of it that depends on your accent or on how well you argue. One fare covers the car and everyone in it, up to four passengers, and the calculator prices the exact date and hour before you book. A ride leaving Ben Gurion carries a ₪5 airport departure surcharge, already inside the airport figures quoted here. Larger vehicles sit outside that logic: a 6-seat large taxi, a 10-seat van and a 19-seat minibus are quoted individually, and we confirm the price within minutes.
What a Tel Aviv address looks like
Addresses here run street, number, entrance, and the driver needs all three. A hotel brand name is the least useful thing you can send: several chains run more than one hotel here, and the sign over the door may be in Hebrew only, so copy the line off your reservation. Seafront hotels sit on HaYarkon Street, and because the promenade in front is for people, not cars, you are set down on the street side and walk around. Office towers work the same way: Azrieli, HaShalom, Sarona and Rothschild sit a turn off the Ayalon, as does Ichilov hospital. In Jaffa, Neve Tzedek and Florentin the lanes are too narrow to try, so the driver stops where the street allows. Going on by train means Savidor Center; the port and the northern beaches are the far end of the seafront.
Booking before you fly, and paying at the end
The calculator prices the exact date and hour, and the booking is finished by WhatsApp or by phone on +972-50-912-2133. Send the flight number and terminal, or the ship's name, the Tel Aviv address, and how many passengers, cases and children are traveling. A confirmation comes back with the driver's name and the car. You can pay the driver in cash, Bit or PayBox; a card is accepted only through a payment link, with a 10% surcharge; and a bank transfer, if a company is paying, is made only in advance, before the ride. Plans change, so the rule is simple: tell us more than a day ahead on a business day and nothing is charged. Inside that day the charge climbs: up to half the fare between 24 and 6 hours before pickup, and the full fare inside the last 6 hours or if nobody comes down.
Timing the car around your day
Visitors rarely lose a day to traffic; they lose it to the hours nobody warned them about.
Check-out morning, evening flight
Hotels want the room back long before an evening flight leaves. Leave the cases at the desk, keep your afternoon, and set the pickup for the hour the flight needs rather than the hour the room ends.
A day ashore that ends on time
Tell us the hour you must be back on board and the day is built in front of it: the drive in, the time you actually get in the city, and a margin for the coastal road on the way back.
Friday is not an ordinary afternoon
Friday runs on a different clock: the country shuts down toward sundown, and an itinerary that assumes a normal afternoon will not survive it. Saturday night, once Shabbat has gone out, is bookable again, in advance rather than on the spot.
An evening that ends late
Dinner starts late in this city, and rides home fall into the meter's night rate, which runs from 21:01 until 05:59. It is the official rate, not a night surcharge of ours, and the calculator shows it before you book.
Onward from Tel Aviv
Most visitors book the way out at the same time as the way in.
Back to the airport
Give us the flight number and the terminal, and we work backward from it: the drive, the check-in line and security. Afternoon pickups leave earlier than the map suggests, because the Ayalon fills with everyone else heading out of town.
A day out of the city
Jerusalem in the morning, or the Dead Sea shore, is arranged in advance with the stops and the return time fixed beforehand, and every leg measured on the meter. Israeli taxis cannot enter Bethlehem or other Palestinian Authority areas.
South and east
Guests heading south usually book Be'er Sheva one way, about 111 km and roughly 82 minutes, from ₪580 by day, and leave the return open until the day is done. Shorter runs out to Modi'in or Ashdod appear in the price rows on this page.
- Name sign waiting in the Terminal 3 arrivals hall
- Your real landing time is tracked, not the schedule
- Door to door, from the terminal to the hotel lobby
- One metered fare per car, up to four passengers
- English-speaking drivers on request
- Rides Sunday to Friday; nothing runs on Shabbat or Jewish holidays
Estimated Prices
| Route | Price |
|---|---|
| Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv (up to 4 passengers) | From ₪140 |
| Jerusalem to Tel Aviv | From ₪370 |
| Ashdod Port to Tel Aviv | From ₪240 |
| Ashdod to Tel Aviv (approx.) | From ₪230 |
| Modi'in to Tel Aviv (approx.) | From ₪220 |
| Be'er Sheva to Tel Aviv (approx.) | From ₪580 |
| Night / after Shabbat or a holiday | By meter tariff 2/3 |
Need a larger vehicle?
Large taxi (6 seats), 10-seat van or 19-seat minibus — luggage included, 24/6. Book now and we confirm the price within minutes.
Full price list by the official meter tariff: taxi price list 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much is a taxi from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv?
Price for a regular taxi (up to 4 passengers) from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv: from ₪140 by day (tariff 1), about ₪160 at night and about ₪190 late on Thursday night, or after Shabbat or a holiday ends — official 2026 taxi-meter tariff; ~24 km, ~29 min. The final price is confirmed in advance when you book; a large taxi (6 seats), 10-seat van or 19-seat minibus is priced per booking and confirmed within minutes.
What is the difference between the day, night and after-Shabbat tariffs?
Tariff 1 (day) applies Sunday–Thursday 06:00–21:00 and Friday until 16:00; tariff 2 (night / Friday & holiday-eve afternoon) runs 21:01–05:59, on Friday and holiday eves from 16:01 until Shabbat or the holiday begins, and from the end of Shabbat or the holiday until 19:00; tariff 3 (late on Thursday night from 23:01, and from 19:01 after Shabbat or a holiday ends) is the highest. For this route: ₪140 / ₪160 / ₪190.
How do I pay?
Payment: cash, Bit or PayBox to the driver; credit card only through a payment link, with a 10% surcharge; bank transfer only in advance, before the ride. An invoice is issued for every payment. A deposit may be requested for some bookings.
What is the cancellation policy?
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the ride (business days); between 24 and 6 hours a partial cancellation fee may apply; less than 6 hours or no-show — full charge. Cancel in writing via WhatsApp or email.
Do you have a vehicle for a large group?
Yes — large taxi (6 seats), 10-seat van and 19-seat minibus, luggage included. Book the vehicle on the group-transfers page or in the calculator and the price is confirmed within minutes.
How much does a taxi to Tel Aviv cost?
There is no single figure, and there is also nothing to haggle over: an Israeli taxi runs on an official meter. From Ben Gurion Airport a regular taxi for up to four passengers starts at ₪140 by day, the ₪5 airport departure surcharge already inside that figure; from the Ashdod cruise terminal, ₪240; from Jerusalem, ₪370. Night hours and departures after Shabbat or a holiday read higher on the meter.
Where does the driver meet me when I land at Ben Gurion Airport?
In the Terminal 3 arrivals hall, on the public side of customs, where a row of drivers stands holding signs — yours has your name on it. Nobody leaves without you: an extra hour at the border does not turn into a car that has already gone. A flight delay costs nothing, and up to 45 minutes from actual landing are free; after that, waiting is charged per minute at the official meter's time rate. If you cannot see your sign, send a WhatsApp message and we connect you with the driver.
Our flight lands on a Friday afternoon. Can you still drive us into the city?
Often yes, but the window closes early. Friday rides run on tariff 1 until 16:00 and on tariff 2 after that, and the last cars leave the road before Shabbat begins. If your landing falls too close to sundown we will tell you straight away and set the pickup for Saturday night, after Shabbat ends, rather than promise a ride that cannot happen.
We arrive by cruise ship at Ashdod or Haifa. Can you bring us to Tel Aviv?
Yes. A cruise berth sits inside a working commercial port, among cranes, trucks and security gates, and private cars cannot drive up to the ship, so passengers come out to the port's passenger gate. The driver waits there with a name sign. Ships keep their own schedule and will not hold a late passenger, so we build a margin into the return leg.
Is the fare per car or per person, and will our suitcases fit?
Per car. Four people traveling together share one metered fare instead of buying four separate tickets — the meter does not count how many of you got in, and a regular taxi carries the luggage of up to four passengers. Larger vehicles are quoted on their own, and the price for those is confirmed within minutes.
Can we get a child seat or a booster for the ride into the city?
Yes, on request: a baby seat or booster for any age, subject to availability, ₪50 per seat. Tell us the children's ages and how many seats you need when you book. Mention a buggy in the same message: it is the item that most often turns a regular taxi into a large one, especially when the cases have already filled the trunk.
Do the drivers speak English?
Say so when you book and we assign an English-speaking driver. The booking itself can be done entirely in English by WhatsApp, and you receive the driver's name and the car details in writing beforehand, so finding each other does not depend on a phone call at the curb after a long flight.
Can you collect us from a restaurant or a bar late in the evening?
Yes, for a ride out of the city — intercity rides only, no rides within a city — and the simplest thing is to book the ride home when you book the ride in. Give us a street corner or a junction rather than a doorway: much of the nightlife sits on lanes a car cannot stop on, and the free curb space around Rothschild and Florentin goes early. From 21:01 the meter is on tariff 2, and after Shabbat or the holiday ends it is on tariff 3.