Transport in Makhachkala - what to use to get around

What can tourists use to travel around Makhachkala?

Makhachkala is not a small city, without transport it will not be possible to fully get acquainted with its sights and plunge into the atmosphere. In addition, it is not very well equipped for walking: sidewalks are not everywhere, and in some places it is impossible to take the shortest route because of fences or construction sites. A more or less comfortable area for hiking is the historical center near the port and the city beach, but only part of the city's attractions are located there, and you will have to go to the rest. To travel on vacation, you can use a taxi, public public transport, rental of bicycles and electric scooters, your own car or car rental, including car sharing.

Taxi in Makhachkala

The most convenient way to travel around Makhachkala for city guests is a taxi. Now the aggregators YandexGo and Uber work here, as well as the application and website of the local taxi "Anji". The local "Anji" offers prices even slightly lower than global aggregators, although payment is accepted only in cash. In general, the advent of applications has greatly reduced taxi prices, and now a short trip within the center will cost from 100 rubles, and almost the whole city in the absence of traffic jams, you can ride for 200. From the airport and to the airport you can get from 500 rubles.

You can order Anzhi through their proprietary app, on the website or by calling +7 (928) 055-00-55. Yandex.Taxi is also available through the app and by calling +7 (8722) 777 000

Public transport in Makhachkala

The way cheaper than a taxi is urban transport. It is well developed here, travel costs from 27 rubles. Payment in cash and on some routes by credit card with a discount of 2 rubles. There are small city buses, five trolleybus routes and countless private minibuses running around the city, which the city cannot get rid of, although it has been announced many times about plans to replace them with small city buses.

You can get by public transport from anywhere in the city to any other, and to figure out the routes, today you can use with Yandex maps or the 2Gis app, where you can set a route on public transport and even see the current position of the buses on the way.

Rent bicycles and electric scooters in Makhachkala

Minute-by-minute rental of electric scooters and bicycles has now appeared in the center of Makhachkala. Currently (2023), the Urent and Moso applications are running. The activation cost starts from 25 rubles, and then from 5 rubles per minute of an electric scooter, and from 40 rubles for 30 minutes of a bicycle. There is also a long-term rental of bicycles for a day, but it is not common here, you will have to search well and maybe even use bulletin boards for this.

Own car and car rental in Makhachkala

We do not recommend driving your car around Makhachkala. In our probably subjective opinion, drivers on the road here behave, to put it mildly, not very skillfully and aggressively. Frequent realignments, abrupt starts and stops in front of traffic lights are the norm for locals. They will constantly try to overtake you, even if there is no need for this and there is a red traffic light in front of you. Interestingly, this manner of driving is found in the city, and outside the city, local drivers drive much more calmly and even in compliance with traffic rules.

There are also enough traffic jams here, and as usual, they are created by the hasty drivers themselves. Therefore, if you do not have nerves of steel and do not have much driving experience, we advise you to use the car inside the city to a minimum. And in any case, it is inconvenient to travel by car, since there are not enough parking lots in the center.

But if you really want to travel by car, then as an alternative to a personal car, you can use the Delimobil, BelkaCar, YandexDrive and YouCar carsharing services. Then, at least, there will be fewer parking gaps, because car-sharing services also have their own free parking spots.

For daily rent, so far it is better to use an independent search via the Internet of local rental companies, rather than search aggregators of car rentals. For some reason, in Makhachkala, when booking directly, prices are lower than through aggregators. For example, you can rent a Russian car from 1500 rubles / day at a local car rental, while through search engines the price starts from 2000. In general GoogleYandex to help you. But if you still prefer proven reliable methods, then here are the popular car rental search engine sites: