Erkrath (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁkʁaːt] ⓘ) is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Erkrath is situated on the river Düssel, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal.

It has two stations, Erkrath station, which is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8, and Erkrath Nord station, which is served by S-Bahn line S 28, both at 20-minute intervals.

In that part of Neandertal, which is located in Erkrath, in the summer of 1856, quarry workers discovered the fossilised remains of what became known as the Neanderthal man or Homo neanderthalensis in Feldhof cave.

Only a part of Unterbach called Unterfeldhaus remained as now a borough of its own with Erkrath.