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Travel and Tourism in British Virgin Islands
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to British Virgin Islands.
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
- US dollar
- Climate
- Subtropical; humid; temperatures moderated by trade winds
- Ethnic Groups
- Black 83%, white, Indian, Asian, and mixed
- National Holiday
- Territory Day, 1 July (1956)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 18 30 N, 64 30 W
- Location
- The Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico
- Airports
- 3
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical care in the BVI consists of a small general hospital, Peebles Hospital (Telephone (284) 494-3497), with an emergency room staffed 24-hrs a day by physicians, several clinics on Tortola, and one public and one private clinic on Virgin Gorda. Both islands are served by ambulances staffed with paramedics. There is a clinic staffed by a government nurse on both Jost Van Dyke and Anegada. There are no medical facilities on the other islands.