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Travel and Tourism in Guinea
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Guinea.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Time Difference
- UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- Guinean franc (GNF)
- Climate
- The coastal areas and most of the inland regions of Guinea have a tropical climate, with a rainy season lasting from May to October, uniformly warm temperatures, and moderate to high humidity. The upper Guinea region has a hotter, drier, more desert-like climate. The Niger, Gambia, and Senegal Rivers are among the 22 West African rivers that originate in Guinea. Conakry is located on a narrow, 36-kilometer-long peninsula that juts into the Atlantic Ocean. The peninsula has low, rolling hills, tropical vegetation, and many vistas of the sea. Conakry”™s year-round high temperature averages 85°F, and rarely rises above 90°F or falls below the mid-70s. Relative humidity is generally 70% or higher. Conakry”™s average annual rainfall of 169 inches, almost all of which falls during the May-October period, makes it one of the world's rainiest capital cities. Americans living in Guinea generally find the climate pleasant overall, although the dry season can be very dusty and the rainy season quite damp.
- Ethnic Groups
- Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 2 October (1958)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 11 00 N, 10 00 W
- Location
- Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone
- Airports
- 16
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical facilities are poorly equipped and extremely limited, both in the capital city and throughout Guinea. Medicines are in short supply and of questionable quality, sterility of equipment should not be assumed, and treatment is frequently unreliable. Some private medical facilities provide a better range of treatment options than public facilities, but are still well below western standards. There is one ambulance in Conakry but there are no ambulance or emergency rescue services in Guinea. Trauma care is extremely limited.
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