ʽAssa Gaila (Arabic: أسا غايلا) is a town in the northern Tadjoura region of Djibouti.

It is situated about 51 kilometres (30 miles) north of Tadjoura and 20 km (12 mi) south of the border with Eritrea.

Due to regional conflict in the early 1990s, government soldiers were considering evacuating the territory between the town and Randa.

[1] On the 5 July 1993, the government launched a massive counter-offensive in the areas controlled by the rebels: the main FRUD base, located in Assa-Gueyla, fell into the hands of the government, who regained a lot of land including the towns of Balho, Dorra and Randa, forcing the rebels to take refuge in the mountains on the border with Eritrea in the north.

Local flora and fauna include spotted hyenas, acacia and Hyphaene thebaica palm.