Kiryat Yam is a town in the Haifa Bay district of Israel, 12 km north of Haifa. One of a group of Haifa suburbs known as the Krayot, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, between Kiryat Haim and the Tzur Shalom industrial area, east of Kiryat Motzkin. In 2015 it had a population of 39,273