Safed
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📷 No machine-readable author provided. Beny Shlevich assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0צפת מגעת לשמים | Tzfat reaches up to the heavens
About
Safed, also known as Tzfat and officially as Zefat, is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of up to 937 m (3,074 ft), Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. In 2022, 93.2% of the population was Jewish and 6.8% was counted as other.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Safed, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Safed
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
22° / 14°
UV Very high
Sat
Overcast
20° / 13°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
29° / 12°
UV Very high
Mon
Rain
25° / 15°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
25° / 14°
UV Very high
Wed
Overcast
26° / 13°
UV High
Thu
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
43° / 7°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.8h
05:39 – 19:29local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Safed
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Uri Michaeli Haifa International Airport (HFA) at 46 km.
Getting around Safed
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.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 4.0, Юкатан.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.