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Travel and Tourism in Solomon Islands
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Solomon Islands.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Time Difference
- UTC+11 (16 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)
- Climate
- tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
- Language(s) Spoken
- While English is the official language, there are 65 indigenous languages spoken in the Solomons. Solomon Island Pijin enables islanders from differing language groups to communicate. The vocabulary is English, but the grammar is Melanesian. 93% are Melanesians, 4% are Polynesian, and some Micronesians re-settled from the Gilbert Islands.
- Ethnic Groups
- Melanesian 93%, Polynesian 4%, Micronesian 1.5%, European 0.8%, Chinese 0.3%, other 0.4%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 7 July (1978)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 8 00 S, 159 00 E
- Location
- Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
- Airports
- 33
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Hospitals and pharmacies in Solomon Islands are limited to populated areas and religious missions. The nearest reliable medical facilities are in Australia or New Zealand. There is a hyperbaric recompression chamber in Honiara at the In-the-Zone Medical Centre, phone (677) 23485 or (677) 23482; however, medical conditions resulting from diving accidents may require medical evacuation to Australia or New Zealand.
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