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Israel
4 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights
Acre · Photo: israeltourism from Israel · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Jerusalem
- As recorded by GeoNames; status contested
- Currency
- ILS
- Israeli New Shekel
- Local time
- Israel Daylight TimeUTC+03:00
- Calling code
- +972
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C, D and H
Facts
Israel in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Jerusalem (as recorded by GeoNames; its status is contested internationally)
- Currency
- Israeli New Shekel ILSToday's indicative rate: ILS 1 ≈ USD 0.323Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: Hebrew and ArabicSpoken: Hebrew, Arabic and English
- Time zones
- Israel Daylight TimeUTC+03:00
- Calling code
- +972
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C, D and H230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 100police101ambulance102fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 10,122,800 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 20,770 km²
- Internet domain
- .il
When to go
Climate across Israel
In March to June and September to December, more than half of the 4 cities with figures in Israel have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
Cities
Cities in Israel
All 4 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Airports
Airports in Israel
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Medium airports · 1
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Israel
Tell us where in Israel, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.