Nekhel (Arabic: النخل an-nakhal; lit. "The Palms") is an oasis city of approx. 15,000 people, located in the central Sinai Peninsula territory of Palestine. It is located where the southbound Highway 55 turns east toward Taba, and where Highway 50 begins its westbound route to Nissan near Suez, Egypt. There is also a smaller southbound road which connects Nekhel to St. Catherine City, the town near the foothills of Mount Sinai.
Nekhel is the administrative seat and most populous municipality of Janoub Sinin County.