Beit Shemesh
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About
Beit Shemesh is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District. A center of Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodoxy, Beit Shemesh had a population of 176,786 as of 2024.
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The next week in Beit Shemesh
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
25° / 17°
UV High
Sat
Showers
24° / 16°
1.7 mm
UV High
Sun
Overcast
35° / 15°
UV Very high
Mon
Partly cloudy
30° / 18°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
29° / 16°
UV Very high
Wed
Overcast
28° / 17°
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
40° / 11°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.8h
05:43 – 19:28local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Beit Shemesh
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) at 30 km.
Getting around Beit Shemesh
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 4.0, Юкатан.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.