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Travel and Tourism in Antigua and Barbuda
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Antigua and Barbuda.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- 2.7
- Climate
- Tropical; little seasonal temperature variation
- Language(s) Spoken
- English (official), Antiguan Creole (an English-based creole)
- Ethnic Groups
- African descent 87.3%, mixed 4.7%, Hispanic 2.7%, White 1.6%, other 2.7%, unspecified 0.9%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 1 November (1981)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 17 03 N, 61 48 W
- Location
- The Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico
- Airports
- 3
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
There are qualified doctors in Antigua and Barbuda, but medical facilities are limited to one public hospital and two private clinics. They do not meet U.S. standards. The principal medical facility in Antigua is Mount St. John, on Hospital Road, St. John's (telephone (268) 462-0251). There is no hyperbaric chamber; divers requiring treatment for decompression illness must be evacuated from the island to either Saba or Guadeloupe.