Gaza City
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📷 Jaber Jehad Badwan· CC BY-SA 4.0أهلا وسهلا في غزة | Welcome to Gaza (Arabic)
About
Gaza City, often simply called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, 76.6 kilometres (47.6 mi) southwest of Jerusalem, it was home to Palestine's only port. With a population of 590,481 people as of 2017, Gaza City was the most populous city in Palestine until the Gaza war caused most of the population to be displaced.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaza City, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Gaza City
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
24° / 20°
UV High
Sat
Overcast
23° / 19°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
35° / 18°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
26° / 21°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
26° / 19°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
25° / 19°
UV High
Thu
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
40° / 14°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.7h
05:46 – 19:30local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Gaza City
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV) at 69 km.
Getting around Gaza City
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
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- 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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.