Arakht is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
It is located between Lake Shiva and the Panj River, at an elevation of near the Tajikistan border. It lies from Pish, from Wishtayn, from Gordzhak and from Ghar Javin.
The nearest airport is away across the border at Khorog.
Arakht has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dsc) with mild, dry summers and very cold, snowy winters.