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Travel and Tourism in Montenegro
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Montenegro.
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)
- Climate
- Mediterranean climate, hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfalls inland
- Ethnic Groups
- Montenegrin 43%, Serbian 32%, Bosniak 8%, Albanian 5%, other (Muslims, Croats, Roma) 12%
- National Holiday
- Statehood Day, 13 July (1878, the day the Berlin Congress recognized Montenegro as the 27th independent state in the world, and 1941, the day the Montenegrins staged an uprising against fascist occupiers and sided with the partisan communist movement)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 42 30 N, 19 18 E
- Location
- Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia
- Airports
- 5
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Durmitor National Park
The drive from the coast to Durmitor is a journey of four hours and four centuries. The landscape changes progressively as you move inland: the Mediterranean scrub gives way to oak woodland, the oak to beech forest, the beech to the alpine meadows and conifer forests of the high Dinaric mountains. The road passes through Nikši?, Montenegro's second city and home of the famous Nikši?ko beer brewery, then climbs steadily through increasingly dramatic scenery toward Žabljak, the highest town in the Balkans at 1,450 meters elevation. Žabljak itself is a modest, practical mountain town whose hotels and restaurants serve primarily as a base for exploring the park rather than as attractions in themselves. It is the landscape surrounding the town that is magnificent.
Durmitor National Park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980, extended in 2005, recognized for its glacial landforms, its lake system, its extraordinary primeval forest, and its dramatic canyon. The park covers 390 square kilometers of the Durmitor massif, a high mountain plateau carved by glaciers into a landscape of cirques, ridges, and valleys that contain 48 glacial lakes.
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Although many physicians in Montenegro are highly trained, hospitals and clinics are generally not equipped or maintained to Western standards. Travelers may need to go to privately owned pharmacies in order to obtain medicines and basic medical supplies. Hospitals and private clinics usually require payment in cash for all services. Montenegro has only a small number of ambulances. As a consequence, emergency services are generally responsive in only the most severe cases.