Lod, İsrail Güncel Saati — IST.

Lod, also known as Lydda and Lidd, is a city 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv and 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel. It is situated between the lower Shephelah on the east and the coastal plain on the west. The city had a population of 94,189 in 2024.

Reading Lod against the global hubs: Dubai (~2,122 km), London (~3,575 km), Singapore (~7,949 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~14,165 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.

Lod sits inside İsrail — the Western Asia subregion, capital Jerusalem, languages Arabic, Hebrew, currency ILS (₪).

The closest mapped neighbors of Lod are Ramla (3 km), Be’er Ya‘aqov (5 km), Shoham (8 km), Ness Ziona (9 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.