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Travel and Tourism in Sao Tome and Principe
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Sao Tome and Principe.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- dobra (STD)
- Climate
- tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
- Ethnic Groups
- mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 12 July (1975)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 1 00 N, 7 00 E
- Location
- Central Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, just north of the Equator, west of Gabon
- Airports
- 2
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical facilities in São Tomé and Príncipe are extremely limited. There is one hospital in the country on the island of São Tomé, Hospital Central Ayres de Menezes, phone number 239 2-221-222. A few clinics also exist, but the service provided is very basic. For all but minor medical needs, it is necessary to travel to Libreville (Gabon), Lisbon (Portugal), or elsewhere.