Sfax
City in Tunisia: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Murailles de sfax vue casbah sfax avenue ali balhaouane: Csisc, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Sfax is a city in Tunisia, in Sfax Governorate. About 280,566 people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Tunisia in our atlas.
It lies at 34.74° N, 10.76° E, about 8 m (26 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Tunis time zone.
Location
Red dot: Sfax. Green dots: other major cities of Tunisia. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Sfax has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 31°C (88°F); the coolest nights come in Feb at about 10°C (49°F). Around 237 mm (9 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Sakiet ed Daier · 7 km
- Kairouan · 120 km
- Sousse · 121 km
- El Mourouj · 225 km
- Sīdī Ḥusayn · 231 km
- Tunis · 237 km
- Sukrah · 242 km
- Bizerte · 293 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2467454 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q46325 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Murailles de sfax vue casbah sfax avenue ali balhaouane: Csisc, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)