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Kobar

Kobar is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank.

Kobar
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The place

Kobar is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank. Kobar is located at an altitude of 670 meters (2,200 ft) above sea level with a mean annual rainfall of 669.8 mm. The average annual temperature is 16 °C and the average annual humidity is approximately 61%.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kobar

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Birzeit University

    Birzeit University is a public university in the West Bank, Palestine, registered by the Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs as a charitable organization. It is accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the outskirts of Birzeit, near Ramallah.

    3.9 km · public university in the West Bank, State of Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Palestinian Museum

    The Palestinian Museum is a museum in Birzeit, in the West Bank, Palestine, that was inaugurated on 18 May 2016. It is a flagship project of the Welfare Association, a non-profit organization for developing humanitarian projects in Palestine.

    3.7 km · museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani

    The Maqam Sheikh al-Qatrawani is an Islamic shrine, located on the Dahrat Hamoud hill about 1.5 km south-west of Atara in the State of Palestine. The maqam was first established during the Mamluk rule over Palestine as one of a series of 16th-century watchtowers overlooking the nearby coast.

    3.7 km · tomb-shrine in Atara, West Bank · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kobar

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 26 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 79 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 84 km
  • Eilat → Kobar
    271 km · quickest by road, 6h 21m · ₪110–150
  • Amman → Kobar
    74 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · JD4–6
  • El Arish → Kobar
    161 km · quickest by road, 5h 17m · E£400–530
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kobar

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kobar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Bethlehem take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the Bethlehem bus station at Manger St.
  • Get inFrom Jericho take a shared taxi (Sherut/serviis) from the central roundabout with the garden in the middle.
  • Get aroundAs the city center is relatively small, it is not hard to walk to most destinations downtown (including the old city.) Service shuttles (shared taxis) are also available from downtown to most suburbs and to the outskirts of the city at relatively low prices (₪2.5 inside the city and up to ₪6 to nearby towns and villages).

From Wikivoyage: Ramallah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    187 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    270 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    393 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    691 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,051 km

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Around it

Next door to Kobar

Kobar is 24 km from West Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rawabicity in the Palestinian National Authority3.4 km
  • BirzeitPalestinian town north of Ramallah3.9 km
  • HalamishIsraeli settlement in the West Bank, Palestine3.7 km
  • AteretIsraeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian West Bank2.1 km
  • NahlielIsraeli settlement in the West Bank2.4 km
  • Al-Zaitounahmunicipality type C in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine3.6 km