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Tamra

Tamra is an Arab city in the North District of Israel located in the Lower Galilee 5 kilometres north of the city of Shefa-Amr and approximately 20 kilometres east of Acre.

Tamra
Tamra · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tamra is an Arab city in the North District of Israel located in the Lower Galilee 5 kilometres north of the city of Shefa-Amr and approximately 20 kilometres east of Acre. In 2024 it had a population of 36,918.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tamra

10 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
    HaYonim Cave

    HaYonim Cave is a cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel.

    7.6 km · cave in Israel · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Siege of Yodfat

    The siege of Yodfat was a 47-day siege by Roman forces of the Jewish town of Yodfat which took place in 67 CE, during the Great Revolt. Led by Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus, both future emperors, the siege ended with the sacking of the town, the deaths of most of its inhabitants and the enslavement of the rest.

    7.8 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Atzmon

    Mount Atzmon is the modern Israeli name of a mountain in the Northern District of Israel, identified by some with the ancient Mount Atzmon. Its Arabic name is Jebel Didiba or Jebel Didbeh.

    7.2 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tel Hanaton

    Tel Hanaton is an archaeological tell situated at the western edge of the Beit Netofa Valley, in the western Lower Galilee region of Israel, 2 kilometres south of the Town of Kfar Manda and 1 kilometre northeast of the kibbutz which took its name, Hanaton.

    9.4 km · mountain in Israel · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Usha

    Usha was an ancient Jewish town in the western part of Galilee. It was identified in the late 19th century by Victor Guérin, who found the ruins on which the Arab village of Hawsha was built.

    7.7 km · archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tel Afek

    Tel Afek,, also spelled Aphek and Afeq, is an archaeological site located in the coastal hinterland of the Ein Afek Nature Reserve, east of Kiryat Bialik, Israel. It is also known as Tel Kurdani.

    8.1 km · Archaeological site in Israel · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Peter & St. Paul Church, Shefa-Amr

    Church building in Shfaram, Israel

    5.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tell Keisan

    Tell Keisan, تل كيسان or Tel Kisson, תל כיסון, is an archaeological site located 8 km from the Mediterranean coast in the Galilee region of Israel between Haifa and Akko. It lies northeast of the site of Tell Abu Hawam, west of the site of Horbat Rosh Zayit, well south of the site of Tel Kabri, and 7.5 kilometers southeast of the site now covered by modern Acre.

    4.8 km · an archaeological site located 8 km from the Mediterranean coast in the Galilee region of Israel between Haifa and Akko · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Shfaram synagogue

    The Ancient Synagogue of Shfaram is a former ancient synagogue, located in the Israeli-Arab city of Shfaram, in Northern Israel.

    5.9 km · synagogue in Israel · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art

    The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage is a Contemporary Art Museum in Arab city Sakhnin in Israel.

    9.1 km · Contemporary Art Museum in Israel · 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 Tamra

Airports
Ben Gurion (TLV), 98 km · Beirut Rafic Hariri (BEY), 111 km · Marka International (Amman Civil) (ADJ), 123 km
Stations
Ahihud railway station, 6.8 km
  • Tel Aviv → Tamra
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · ₪38–50
  • Eilat → Tamra
    367 km · quickest by road, 6h 59m · ₪145–190
  • Amman → Tamra
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · JD6–8
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tamra

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you don't know Hebrew, go to Herzl Street in Haifa, point an index finger at a 45 degree angle with the ground (the Israeli hitchhiking signal) when a service taxi drives by, and ask where it's going.
  • Get inA foot-passenger ferry plies between Haifa and Akko on four days a week.
  • Get inThis means a day trip is possible in either direction.

From Wikivoyage: Akko, 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

    282 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    365 km
  3. 03
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    489 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,002 km

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

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