The city is linked by air with the rest of the country by the Dipolog City Airport  which is situated only 12 kilometers away from the city’s urban core. 

              Dapitan City hosts the Province of Zamboanga del Norte’s sole commercial seaport, the Pulauan Wharf, found in the coastal zone of Barangay San Vicente approximately nine (9) kilometers away from the poblacion. This wharf serves not only passengers and traders from Dapitan but also those from Dipolog as well as from other municipalities of Zamboanga del Norte and the neighboring Provinces of Zamboanga del Sur and Misamis Occidental. Another port situated in Barangay Taguilon is used only by interisland vessels seeking refuge during inclement weather and may serve as an alternate docking for leisure cruising.  

              Noticeably, passengers embarking / disembarking at Pulauan wharf have been increasing over the years. Data show that incoming cargoes generally consisted of cement, fertilizer, sugar, bottled cargoes, wheatflour and rice while outgoing cargoes included charcoal, copra, fruits and vegetables, corn and live animals.  

             The Dapitan City Water District (DCWD) serves the city’s urban population and some households in nearby barangays. It has 13 barangays as service areas. Sources of water supply are the Ambogoc watershed at Purok Guava, Maria Cristina, and the Talyaman Creek at Sitio Kalangres, Diwaan, approximately 6 and 10 kilometers away, respectively, from the city’s urban core. The system has a minimum discharge of 48 liters per second or 4,147,200 liters per day. It serves 1,478 household connections. Water treatment is by chlorination.  

              The operationalization of the City Waterworks Development Task Force (CWDTF) helped much in the city government’s efforts in providing potable water in the rural areas outside the coverage of the DCWD. To date, it has organized 35 Rural Waterworks and Sanitation Associations (RWSA) and has implemented 33 out of the 35 water system projects, of which 5 are Level I, 23 are Level II and 5 are Level III.  

            City residents that are not served by the DCWD derive their water supply from privately-owned shallow wells and open dug wells. 

              The Zamboanga del Norte Electric Cooperative (ZANECO) supplies Dapitan with electric energy provided by the National Power Corporation’s Maria Cristina Falls Hydro Plant at Iligan City.  This is through the cooperative’s power sub-station with a capacity of 10 MVA located at Ubay, Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte.  

              ZANECO has energized 37 barangays in the City, 29 of which are rural barangay with 4,107 consumers at present. But these rural barangays often experience low voltage power supply. 

              Dapitan City has been trying in recent years to catch up with the advance of technological communications. The City is being serviced by one telephone system (Cruztelco), one cellular phone system (SMART) ,one cable television, four radio stations (two AM and two FM), one telegraph station, three postal offices and four  newspapers.  There is also an existing linkage via Single Side Band Radio between City Hall and the Provincial Capitol in Dipolog City as well as the rest of the municipalities in the province.  The radio system is under the Provincial Law Enforcement Communication System (PLECS). There is likewise a set of hand-held transreceiver radios based in the Office of the City Mayor.

              Ninety percent  (90%) of the population have radio sets which is the most popular source of news and information. About 30% of the households have television sets.

              CRUZTELCO is a local subscriber system with interconnections with the Philippine Long Distance Company (PLDT).  It has already installed 331 telephone connections in the urban area, 263 private and 68 government lines.

              The drainage system of the city consists of concrete lined and covered square channels in the poblacion and concrete lined trapezoidal channels in the rural areas along concrete roads. There are two major networks in the poblacion area.  The northern network approximately 8.6 kilometers long has one outfall that discharges to Dapitan Bay and four (4) outfalls that discharge into the Liboran River. The southern network traverses the total length of approximately 6.6 kilometers which has two outfalls facing Dapitan Bay and two outfalls facing Liboran River.  

              Bridges are the effective linkages of vehicles and people in areas where rivers and creeks provide hindrance to mobility and access. At present, the total length of the city’s bridges is 1,916.43 lineal meters. These are classified into national (843 lineal meters), city (150.00 lineal meters) and barangay (923.00 lineal meters). The Polo Jumbo Bridge serves as the gateway to Dipolog, the provincial capital, while the Bagting Steel Bridge connects the urban core with the mainland of the north where the Rizal Shrine and the famous Dakak Park and Beach Resort are situated. There is an on-going project to replace the Bagting Steel Bridge with a reinforced concrete girder bridge.   

              The City General Services Office is charged with the collection and hauling waste from the urban households, government and non-government offices, and business enterprises. The average daily refuse collected is 12- 14 cubic meters.  

              A proposed sanitary landfill site is located at Barangay Aseniero, 24 kilometers away from the city proper. The same is two hectares in area and is privately titled. The terrain is generally flat and the adjacent areas are characterized by rolling to moderately flat land.  No irrigation system is found in the area.  

              Seawalls have been constructed on areas affected by floods during heavy rains, i. e., the Bitoon River Control, Polo River Control and the Sunset Boulevard Seawall