Abu Dhabi Taxi Fare Calculator

Abu Dhabi Taxi Fare Calculator

Enter the distance and any minutes stuck in traffic, and the calculator prices each part of the fare on the Abu Dhabi Mobility tariff, for city taxis and for the airport rank at Zayed International Airport (AUH).

What Is the Taxi Fare in Abu Dhabi in 2026?

A taxi in Abu Dhabi costs AED 5.00 to start by day and AED 5.50 at night, then AED 1.82 per km and AED 0.50 per minute of waiting, with an AED 12 minimum. Abu Dhabi Mobility, the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC), publishes one tariff for every taxi it licenses in the emirate, Al Ain included.

Pay in cash, with Apple Pay or Samsung Pay, through the PayBy app, or by card in the Abu Dhabi Taxi app. The published tariff lists no surcharge for ending a trip in another emirate and no luggage charge.

What Is the Abu Dhabi Taxi Rate per Km?

The Abu Dhabi taxi rate is AED 1.82 per km, and it stays the same at night. Only the flag fall (up 50 fils) and the booking fee (up AED 1) rise after 22:00, so a hailed ride above the minimum costs exactly 50 fils more at midnight than at noon. By day with no waiting, 5 km costs AED 14.10, 20 km AED 41.40 and 50 km AED 96.00.

The rate comes from Abu Dhabi Executive Council Decision No. 44 of 2017, in force since 1 June 2017 and the first increase since 2012. It lifted the kilometre charge from AED 1.60 (AED 1.69 at night), raised the flag fall from AED 3.50 and AED 4.00, and added the AED 12 minimum. Nothing has moved since, while Dubai links its kilometre charge to fuel and reviews it every two months.

How Is an Abu Dhabi Taxi Fare Calculated?

Add the starting charge (AED 5.00, AED 5.50 at night, or AED 20.00 at the airport rank), the booking fee if you booked, the kilometres at AED 1.82 and the waiting minutes at AED 0.50. If a city trip comes to less than AED 12, you pay AED 12.

Four Worked Examples

• Street hail by day, 8 km, 4 minutes at lights: AED 5.00 + AED 14.56 + AED 2.00 = AED 21.56.
• App booking at night, 6 km, clear roads: AED 5.50 + AED 5.00 booking fee + AED 10.92 = AED 21.42.
• Short hop by day, 2 km, hailed: AED 5.00 + AED 3.64 = AED 8.64, which is under the minimum, so the fare is AED 12.00.
• AUH rank to the Corniche, 35 km, 8 minutes in traffic: AED 20.00 + AED 63.70 + AED 4.00 = AED 87.70.

Waiting is the part estimates miss: twenty minutes at a standstill on a bridge approach adds AED 10 to an otherwise predictable fare.

How Much Is a Taxi from Abu Dhabi Airport?

A taxi from the rank at Zayed International Airport (AUH) starts at AED 20.00, day or night, then charges the normal AED 1.82 per km and AED 0.50 per waiting minute. The AED 20 replaces the flag fall; there is no airport surcharge on top. AUH sits between the city and Dubai, about 35 km from the Corniche, so Dubai is closer to the airport than to the city centre.

Our arithmetic: AED 20 plus approximate road kilometres from Terminal A at AED 1.82. The top of each range allows 10 to 20 minutes of slow traffic; booking adds AED 4 or AED 5.

The same meter runs all the way to Al Ain, and the numbers for the return leg are on our Al Ain taxi booking page. The Dubai side of the run is broken down in our Abu Dhabi to Dubai Airport taxi fare guide, and the rank location at Terminal A is in our AUH arrivals and pickup guide.

Is There a Mercedes Taxi at Abu Dhabi Airport?

Yes: the Mercedes-Benz Vito vans at the AUH rank are official taxis, listed by Abu Dhabi Mobility as the Vito Airport Taxi, and they charge exactly what a saloon charges: AED 20 from the airport, then AED 1.82 per km and AED 0.50 per waiting minute.

For a family with several suitcases, a golf bag or a pushchair the extra space is free, so ask for a Vito at the front of the queue. Limousines are a different product: their companies set their own prices outside the taxi tariff.

Do You Pay Darb Tolls in an Abu Dhabi Taxi?

No: authorised Abu Dhabi taxis are automatically exempt from Darb, alongside ambulances, public buses and motorcycles, so no toll is added at any gate or hour.

Private cars pay AED 4 per crossing at the four bridge gates onto Abu Dhabi island (Sheikh Zayed, Sheikh Khalifa, Al Maqtaa and Mussafah) from 07:00 to 09:00 and 15:00 to 19:00, except Sundays and public holidays, with no daily cap since 1 September 2025. Since 4 May 2026 two newer gates charge AED 4 around the clock: Ghantoot, on Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Street (the E11 towards Dubai), and Al Qurm, on Wahat Al Karama Street at Sheikh Zayed Street.

The exemption belongs to the taxi, not to you. A Dubai RTA taxi bills the Darb fee to the passenger where it applies, and an Abu Dhabi taxi heading into Dubai can cross Salik gates, which the calculator leaves out.

How Do You Book and Pay for an Abu Dhabi Taxi?

Hail a silver taxi with a yellow roof sign, call 600 53 53 53 (+971 2 418 6000 from abroad), or book in the Abu Dhabi Taxi app, which shows an approximate fare first; only the last two add a booking fee. Our Abu Dhabi taxi number guide lists the toll free support line too.

The fee is added to the flag fall, so a booked taxi starts at AED 9.00 by day and AED 10.50 at night: a 6 km daytime ride costs AED 15.92 hailed and AED 19.92 booked.

Family taxis (white roof light, women drivers, families only) and taxis for People of Determination run on the same meter, and People of Determination and elderly passengers with a disability get 50 percent off. Uber and Careem also operate in Abu Dhabi, at their own app prices.

How Are Abu Dhabi Taxi Fares Different from Dubai?

The street hail start is identical, but most other differences favour the Abu Dhabi passenger: a flat booked start, no van premium at the airport, no tolls and a kilometre charge unchanged since 2017.

For the current Dubai kilometre rate and a side by side estimate with Sharjah, use our UAE taxi fare calculator.

Will Abu Dhabi Taxi Fares Go Up?

No new tariff has been approved: in October 2026 the official rates were still those of 1 June 2017. In July 2026 Dubai Taxi Company, which gained an estimated 12 percent of the Abu Dhabi market by buying National Taxi for AED 1.45 billion, confirmed talks with the Abu Dhabi Government on revising fares, which Gulf News noted are lower than Dubai's. No change, level or timeline has been agreed, and the decision rests with the authorities.

Robotaxis are the other change. Abu Dhabi Mobility counts 69 autonomous vehicles in commercial service, and WeRide cars booked through Uber were running fully driverless on Yas Island by November 2025. Their prices come from the apps, not the taxi tariff.

When a Fixed-Price Car Makes More Sense

Inside the city the metered taxi is usually the cheaper choice: 10 km by day costs AED 23.20. A pre-booked car earns its place on long runs (AED 187 to AED 265 on the meter from AUH to Dubai, around AED 310 to Al Ain), on pre-dawn departures, and for groups whose luggage would need two taxis.

Gulf Chauffeur is a private chauffeur service, not a taxi operator: one fixed price for the whole journey, confirmed on WhatsApp before you travel. Our car with driver in Abu Dhabi page explains hourly and full day bookings.