Dating by city / United Arab Emirates / Abu Dhabi region / Abu Dhabi
Looking for a date, something serious or new friends in Abu Dhabi? Create a profile and you could be the first local on this page.
Big cities make it easy to keep a first date short and neutral. Meet at a coffee place in a busy area, and if it goes well, walk somewhere nearby instead of planning a whole evening.
Within 50 km of Abu Dhabi there are 6 towns and cities — Khalifah A City, Mohammed Bin Zayed City and Bani Yas City among them — with more than 2.1 million residents in all. You set the distance yourself in the filters, from 10 km up to 500 km — or choose “Any distance”.
Yes. YADate is a free online dating site, in Abu Dhabi and everywhere else: profiles, search filters, likes, messages, voice messages and gifts cost nothing, and there is no premium plan. The only limits are daily caps against spam, such as 40 new conversations a day.
YADate never creates fake profiles or writes on behalf of people who don't exist. A moderator checks every photo before it appears, every member confirms an email address, and any profile can be reported. Anyone who asks for money or pushes you to move to another app straight away is worth reporting.
Yes. In the filters you can search around any other city, in the United Arab Emirates or abroad.
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