Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Djerba
Tunisia's sun island in the Gulf of Gabes — North Africa's largest island, famed for beaches, bazaars and a 2023 UNESCO listing.
- Formation
- low limestone platform; flat agricultural plain of palms, olives and figs with shallow coastal lagoons
- Population
- 163,726
- Water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to Djerba.
Fly to Djerba–Zarzis International Airport (DJE); drive in via the El Kantara causeway or take the El Jorf–Ajim car ferry.
- 01Djerba–Zarzis International Airport (DJE)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
El Jorf–Ajim car ferry (southwest) plus the 6 km El Kantara causeway from the mainland.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Tunisia visa-exemption for many nationalities; package-tour exemptions apply.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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What the chart cannot hold
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Djerba is the largest island of North Africa (514 sq km), a flat palm-and-olive island whose distinctive courtyard-village settlement pattern earned UNESCO World Heritage status in 2023. It blends Arab, Berber, Jewish and African heritage with mass beach tourism on its east coast.
Legendary land of the Lotus-Eaters; Phoenician then Roman Meninx (purple dye); Vandals, Byzantines, Arab conquest; Norman, Spanish and Ottoman contests; French protectorate 1881; independent Tunisia 1956; UNESCO site 2023.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 33.80° N · 10.88° E
- Sovereignty
- Tunisia · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Tunisian mainland (linked by the Roman-era causeway at El Kantara and the El Jorf–Ajim ferry)
- Best recorded window
- April–June and September–October (warm, less crowded).
- Permits / entry
- Tunisia visa-exemption for many nationalities; package-tour exemptions apply.
- Languages
- Arabic, French, Berber (Guellala)
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