Elsbethen is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It lies in the federal province of Salzburg in central-northern Austria, within the Salzburg-Umgebung district that surrounds the city of Salzburg.
As a municipality, Elsbethen is one of the local administrative units of the Salzburg-Umgebung district. The district is part of the state of Salzburg, one of Austria's nine federal states.