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Municipality type B in Hebron, State of Palestine · Palestinian Territory · West Bank

Taffūḩ

Taffuh is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers west of Hebron.

Taffūḩ
Taffūḩ · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Taffuh is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers west of Hebron. The town is in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 15,800 in 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Taffūḩ

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
    Hebron University

    Hebron University is a non-profit, public university in the city of Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. It has an undergraduate enrollment of more than 10,000 students.

    4 km · university in Palestine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Abraham's Oak Holy Trinity Monastery

    The Church of the Holy Forefathers and Monastery of the Holy Trinity, also known as Al Maskobiya, is a Russian Orthodox monastery and church in Hebron, Palestine, founded in the 20th century on the site of the ancient Oak of Mamre.

    3 km · church in Hebron, Palestine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Oak of Mamre

    The Oak of Mamre or Oak of Sibta at Khirbet es-Sibte or Ain Sibta in Hebron in the West Bank, is a site venerated by some as the "Oak of Abraham". It is distinct from the more ancient site of Mamre.

    3.1 km · venerated site in the 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 Taffūḩ

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 55 km · Queen Alia (AMM), 91 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 101 km
  • Tel Aviv → Taffūḩ
    65 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · ₪34–45
  • Amman → Taffūḩ
    97 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · JD6–7
  • El Arish → Taffūḩ
    127 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · E£290–385
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Taffūḩ

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 Taffūḩ. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextNearby popular sights in the West Bank, that allow for a day trip from Hebron, include Tor-Safa Cave, Taffuh Underground Church, Tomb of Prophet Lot and Birkat al-Karmil (Holy Pool).

From Wikivoyage: Hebron, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    221 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    342 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    719 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,072 km

If you know how people move in Taffūḩ – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Taffūḩ

Taffūḩ is 30 km from Jerusalem, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • AdoraIsraeli settlement on the West Bank3.5 km
  • Beit Kahilmunicipality in Hebron Governorate3.6 km
  • Telem, Har HebronIsraeli settlement in the occupied West Bank3.5 km
  • Kuseismunicipality type D in Hebron, State of Palestine3.3 km