Immediately southwest of Eğirdir is a mountain called Eğirdirsivrisi or Camili dağı, which rises to 1,733 m above sea level.

[3]: 179 Eğirdir has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa)[4] with some continental influence; hot, dry summers, and chilly, wet winters with frequent snow.

[7] It was probably conquered along with Isparta in 1204 by Kilij Arslan III of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum.

Ibn Battuta, who visited the town in 1332 (and called it Akrīdūr in Arabic),[3]: 179  described it as "a great and populous city with fine bazaars and running streams, mosques, fruit trees and orchards", which was situated beside "a lake of sweet water".

The population of Eğirdir was 19,469 in 2010, but swells in the summer months as part-time residents return for the holidays.

Restaurants, hotels, pensions (pansyons or hostels), and a few private residences fill the island.

Locals claim that Eğirdir is home to the world's only walk-through minaret.