Record stores in Tel Aviv

Record shops reward the patient digger. Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District has 12 mapped right now. That's 12 record shops mapped around Tel Aviv. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Tel Aviv (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Budagov Music shop and Sommerfeld, plus פנקי מיוזיק. If a record shop's missing from Tel Aviv's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Tel Aviv record lineup

12 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Tel Aviv

5 of the 12 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

5 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Tel Aviv record crawl

Making a day of it in Tel Aviv? Work this order: Budagov Music shop, Sommerfeld, פנקי מיוזיק on 25 הבנים, DJ Yaniv Ohana on 2 שתי האחיות, טאואר רקורדס, התו השמיני, FajerFM فجر اف ام on The Hospital Street, and Signal Audio on 59 דרך שלמה. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 4 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Tel Aviv

A few things worth knowing before you work through Tel Aviv's record stores:

• Learn your labels at Budagov Music shop. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Buy the weird stuff at Sommerfeld. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Inspect the seams. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Bring cash for the small shops. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Tel Aviv — 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 Tel Aviv can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 12, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

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 12 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.