Skip to content
Mixroutes
Sakhnin
City in Israel's Northern District

Sakhnin

Sakhnin is a city in Israel's Northern District.

Plan a trip to Sakhnin→From Tel Aviv

It is located in the Lower Galilee, about 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of Acre. Sakhnin was declared a city in 1995. In 2024 its population was 33,728; 95% of the population was Muslim and 5% was Christian.

How locals move

Getting around Sakhnin the local way

  • Get aroundTaxis or hitchhiking can be a good solution for the "last mile" after you get off the bus at the closest stop on the main road.
  • Get aroundHitch-hiking is definitely an option and easy along the non-highway roads, also where buses are sparse.
  • Get aroundJewish Israelis are more wary nowadays, which in other parts of the country can be an issue when hitch-hiking.

From Wikivoyage: Lower Galilee, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Roi Porat (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.