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Travel and Tourism in Croatia
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Croatia.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- 6.971
- Climate
- Zagreb's climate is predominately continental, with hot and dry summers and cold winters. Rainy weather, with accompanying fog, is common in the fall from October through December. In winter, from December to March, snowfalls are common, occasionally heavy, and temperatures often dip below freezing. On the coast, the climate is typically Mediterranean with long, hot, dry summers and moderate but windy winters.
- Language(s) Spoken
- The Croatian language has thirty letters, each with a distinct sound.
- Ethnic Groups
- Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, Bosniak 0.5%, Hungarian 0.4%, Slovene 0.3%, Czech 0.2%, Roma 0.2%, Albanian 0.1%, Montenegrin 0.1%, others 4.1%
- National Holiday
- Statehood Day (National Day), 30 May (1990); note - marks the day in 1990 that the first modern multi-party Croatian parliament convened
- Geographic Coordinates
- 45 10 N, 15 30 E
- Location
- Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia
- Airports
- 68
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Geography: A Land of Coast, Island, and Mountain
Croatia occupies a distinctive and somewhat unusual geographical position in southeastern Europe. The country stretches in a rough crescent shape, with its northwestern arm extending along the Istrian Peninsula into the northern Adriatic and its southeastern reach curving down through Dalmatia to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro near Dubrovnik. This crescent shape reflects the country's complex geological and political history, and it means that Croatia has an extraordinarily long coastline relative to its overall land area, a coastline that includes the spectacular Dalmatian coast and the equally beautiful shores of Istria and the Kvarner Gulf.
The Dalmatian coast, running along the central and southern portions of Croatia's Adriatic shoreline, is the region most visitors think of when they imagine Croatia. This is a coast of extraordinary scenic drama, with the rugged limestone mountains of the Dinaric Alps rising directly from the sea in places, punctuated by deep natural harbors, ancient towns, and the scattering of islands that has made the region legendary.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Health-care facilities in Croatia, although generally of Western caliber, are under severe budgetary strain. Some medicines are in short supply in public hospitals and clinics. There are numerous private medical and dental practitioners, and private pharmacies stock a variety of medicines not readily available through public health facilities. Tick-borne encephalitis, a disease preventable with a three-shot vaccination series, is found throughout inland Croatia, but is not prevalent along the coast.
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