Record stores in Abu Dhabi

Vinyl hunting in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi? There are 3 record shops mapped here. That's 3 record shops mapped around Abu Dhabi. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Abu Dhabi (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Juli’s Music Centre and Khan Music Center, plus Tharang Music. If a record shop's missing from Abu Dhabi's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Abu Dhabi record lineup

3 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Abu Dhabi

None of the 3 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

The Abu Dhabi record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Juli’s Music Centre, Khan Music Center, and Tharang Music. That's 3 stops on the Abu Dhabi record crawl.

Record digging tips for Abu Dhabi

A few things worth knowing before you work through Abu Dhabi's record stores:

• Ask about want-list services at Juli’s Music Centre. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Note the shop's specialties at Khan Music Center. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Don't clean records with your shirt. A proper brush costs little and saves grooves. Shirt fibres and spit are how records get ruined.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Abu Dhabi — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Abu Dhabi can take a while to appear. The 3 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.