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Travel and Tourism in Maldives
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Maldives.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Time Difference
- UTC+5 (10 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- rufiyaa (MVR)
- Climate
- tropical; hot, humid; dry, northeast monsoon (November to March); rainy, southwest monsoon (June to August)
- Ethnic Groups
- South Indians, Sinhalese, Arabs
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 26 July (1965)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 3 15 N, 73 00 E
- Location
- Southern Asia, group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south-southwest of India
- Airports
- 5
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
There is no 911 equivalent for medical emergencies in Maldives; 119 is for the police only, and the Coast Guard responds to 191 calls for maritime emergencies. A patient would have to call an individual hospital for ambulance services. The quality of medical care in such instances may be uncertain, as most ambulances are ill-equipped. Maldives has limited medical facilities.
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