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A city gate is a gate set within a city wall.

Examples of city gates include:

• Gates of Cairo
• Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
• City Gate (building in Israel)
• Holstentor, in Lübeck, Germany
• Porta Nigra, in Trier, Germany
• Amsterdamse Poort, a city gate of Haarlem, the Netherlands
• London's Roman and Medieval gates of the London WallLondon Wall was the defensive wall built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the river Thames in England. The wall had a number of gates around the outside that led to important Roman roads, leading to other towns in: LudgateLudgate was the westernmost gate in London Wall. The name survives in Ludgate Hill, an eastward continuation of Fleet Street, and Ludgate Circus. See also: city gate, city wall, Nuada Streets of London., NewgateNewgate was a gate in the west of London Wall round the City of London. It was between Ludgate and Aldersgate. Newgate Street is just north of St Paul's Cathedral. To the west it leads into the Holborn Viaduct, and to the east it becomes Cheapside. See al, AldersgateAldersgate was a gate in the London Wall in the City of London, which has given its name to Aldersgate Street, a road leading north from the site of the gate, towards Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. The old gate was taken down in 1617, and, BishopsgateBishopsgate is a road in the east of the City of London, running north from Gracechurch to Norton Folgate. Its named after a gate in the London Wall that the Romans built around Londinium to defend it. It is the site of Liverpool Street station, the notab, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Aldgate
• Rashomon Gate, Kyoto, Japan

See also: Triumphal arch