Head to head
Tel Aviv vs Haifa
Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tel Aviv is the larger of the two, with 432,892 people to 285,316 in Haifa. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Everything below is the evidence for that: population, size within each city’s own country, the distance between them, and where each one stands on the global board.
The answer
SummaryNeither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tel Aviv is the larger of the two, with 432,892 people to 285,316 in Haifa. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
Neither Tel Aviv nor Haifa has been backed yet, so nothing on the board has changed.
Head to head
Israel| Metric | Tel Aviv | Haifa |
|---|---|---|
| Populationcity proper, GeoNames | 432,892 | 285,316 |
| Size in its countryby population, among catalogue cities | 2nd largest | 3rd largest |
| Country | Israel | Israel |
| Region | Tel Aviv | Haifa |
| National capital | No | No |
| Local timewhen this page was generated | 3:18 AM · UTC+03:00 | 3:18 AM · UTC+03:00 |
| CityWar rank | Unclaimed | Unclaimed |
| City score$1 contributed = 1 point | $0 | $0 |
| Backers | 0 | 0 |
| Score added todaysince 00:00 UTC | $0 | $0 |
Distance and time
84 km apartTel Aviv and Haifa are 84 kilometres apart, measured centre to centre. Both are in Israel. Haifa keeps time the same time as Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv has 147,576 more people — 1.5× the size of the other by city-proper population.
Questions
Answered from the data above- Which is bigger, Tel Aviv or Haifa?
- Tel Aviv is the larger city by population, with 432,892 people to 285,316 in Haifa — a difference of 147,576. Both figures are for the city proper and come from the GeoNames open geographic database.
- How far apart are Tel Aviv and Haifa?
- 84 kilometres, measured centre to centre as a great-circle distance. Both cities are in Israel. Haifa keeps time the same time as Tel Aviv.
- Which city is winning on CityWar, Tel Aviv or Haifa?
- Neither city is on the CityWar leaderboard yet, so there is no score to compare. By population Tel Aviv is the larger of the two, with 432,892 people to 285,316 in Haifa. The first $1 behind either one settles the rest.
- How is a city's CityWar score calculated?
- One US dollar contributed is one point, and cities are ordered by total score with the highest first. When two cities are level the one backed first holds the higher rank. Nothing else is in the calculation — no population weighting, no votes and no editorial judgement — which is why Tel Aviv and Haifa both currently sit at $0.
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6Settle it
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