Travel Risk Atlas

Palestine

Western Asia · Capital Ramallah

Each opens that government's own advisory for Palestine — the authoritative version, updated far faster than this page.

60.0 High risk
Atlas Risk Score · 192nd safest of 220

Score raised to 60 by the advisory rule: governments currently advise against travel here. Why

Church of the Nativity — Palestine
Photo: Neil Ward / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Where the risk actually is

Risk is rarely spread evenly across a country. The base colour is the code the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives Palestine as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Gaza Strip — Essential travel onlyWest Bank — Do not travelDead SeaDead Sea
What governments advise Do not travel Essential travel only

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Palestine by its Atlas Risk Score — 60, High — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Palestine is “do not travel”.

What the warnings actually cover

  • Do not travel. to Gaza Areas near Gaza
  • Do not travel. within 500m of the border with Gaza The West Bank
  • Do not travel. to: Tulkarm Governorate, Jenin Governorate, and Tubas Governorate except Route 90 Northern Israel and Occupied Golan Heights
  • Do not travel. to: Areas north of Route 89 between Nahariyya and Dalton; north of a straight eastward line from Dalton to Route 91; and north of Route 91 across the Golan Heights, excluding routes 89 and 91 themselves Within 500m of the Area of Separation in the occupied…
  • Essential travel only. to: The rest of the West Bank, except for: East Jerusalem, Bethlehem Governate, Ramallah Municipality, Jericho municipality and all areas which lie south of it (this includes the Allenby crossing)

Shading marks whole regions named in an advisory, but a warning is often narrower — a border strip, one road, or a single city. Read the wording, and check the official advisory linked below.

What drives the score

Each pillar is scored 0–100 against every other country. Longer bar = more risk.

Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
95/100
212th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
78/100
200th of 220
Political stability
10% of score
68/100
205th of 220
Crime
15% of score
42/100
129th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
32/100
121st of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly earthquakes
16/100
10th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
11/100
38th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
56/100

Biggest factor here: conflict & terrorism. Armed conflict, political violence and terrorism exposure.

Practical facts

The things worth knowing before you land.

Emergency number
100
Police 100 · Ambulance 101
Currency
EGP
Languages
Arabic
Visa (EU passport)
Visa free
US: Visa free · UK: Visa free
Population
5.4m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Ramallah
Driving
On the right
5.3 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C, H
220-240V
Safely managed water
81%
Mostly, but not everywhere · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+970
GDP per capita
$3k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
688k
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

Average daytime high and nightly low for Ramallah, over 2010-2019. Bars are rainfall; the colour band is how hot the days get.

Mildest and driest around February to June, and September to December.

Daytime high mild warm hot extreme heat
Top figure is the average daytime high, below it the average nightly low, and millimetres of rain under each bar. Figures are the average daytime high; bar heights are the month's rainfall. Shaded months are the mild, drier ones. Source: NASA POWER daily observations, 2010-2019, public domain.

Sources for this page

Vaccinations, malaria and outbreaks. This atlas does not give medical advice — it is personal, it changes, and it is the one thing worth getting from a doctor. Both national services publish current advice for Palestine:

Check the official advisory before you book. This page reflects data as of August 2026. Advisories change without warning, and only your own government's advice affects your travel insurance.