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About
Sfax is a major port city in Tunisia, located 270 km (170 mi) southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate, and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has a population of 341,999. Its main industries include phosphate, olive and nut processing, fishing and international trade. The city is the second-most populous in the country after the capital, Tunis.
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The next week in Sfax
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
Showers
27° / 20°
1.8 mm
Sat
Rain
26° / 18°
1.0 mm
UV Very high
Sun
Rain
23° / 16°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
23° / 15°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
23° / 16°
UV Very high
Wed
Partly cloudy
27° / 16°
UV Very high
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
34° / 13°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.0h
05:14 – 19:11local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Sfax
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Sfax Thyna International Airport (SFA) at 7 km.
Getting around Sfax
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
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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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 →
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