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Travel and Tourism in Kiribati
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Kiribati.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 3: Reconsider Travel
- Time Difference
- UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) time zone note: Kiribati has three time zones: the Gilbert Islands group at UTC+12, the Phoenix Islands at UTC+13, and the Line Islands at UTC+14
- Currency
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- Climate
- tropical; marine, hot and humid, moderated by trade winds
- Ethnic Groups
- predominantly Micronesian with some Polynesian
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 12 July (1979)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 1 25 N, 173 00 E
- Location
- Oceania, group of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the Equator, as well as the International Date Line; the capital Tarawa is about half way between Hawaii and Australia
- Airports
- 20
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Health care throughout Kiribati, including Tarawa, is substandard. Medication and supplies are limited and hospital accommodations are inadequate throughout the country. Serious medical conditions requiring hospitalization or evacuation to the United States or elsewhere may cost thousands of dollars. If a person dies in Kiribati, there are no funeral homes with embalming or cremation services.
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