Sinjil
Sinjil is a Palestinian town northeast of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.
Sinjil is a Palestinian town northeast of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.
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Worth seeing in and around Sinjil
One place 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.
- 01Khirbet el-Qutt
Khirbet el-Qutt is an archaeological site occupied from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine and Early Muslim periods. The site is located on and around a hill between the present-day village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya and Israeli settlement Ma'ale Levona.
4 km · archaeological site in the West Bank · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sinjil
- Airports
- Ben Gurion (TLV), 36 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 69 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 77 km
- Amman → Sinjil65 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · JD4–5
- El Arish → Sinjil172 km · quickest by road, 5h 18m · E£400–540
- Damascus → Sinjil190 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · $23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sinjil
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 Sinjil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHitchhiking (Tremp) Ariel is long and narrow (it follows the crest of a long mountain ridge), so it could be a long walk from one part to another.
- Go nextHitch a ride, or take Palestinian licence-plated taxi, from Ariel Junction to Nablus.
From Wikivoyage: Ariel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.
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If you know how people move in Sinjil – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sinjil
Sinjil is 28 km from East Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- ShilohBiblical city3.5 km
- ShiloIsraeli settlement4 km
- Silwadtown in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate5.2 km
- Turmus Ayyavillage council in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate2.1 km
- Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyavillage council in Nablus Governorate4.8 km
- Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiyamunicipality in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate4 km