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Travel and Tourism in Tajikistan
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Tajikistan.
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
- somoni
- Climate
- There are four distinct seasons in Tajikistan gorgeous springs, with soft breezes and flowers blooming everywhere; hot, dry summers; pleasant autumns with warm days and cool evenings, and in the low altitude city of Dushanbe, relatively mild winters. Snowfall rapidly increases with altitude. The climate of the mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), which occupies the eastern half of Tajikistan, is more extreme. The mountainous east receives 90% of Tajikistan's yearly precipitation, and its average annual temperature is 49°F; in Dushanbe it's 65 °F.
- Ethnic Groups
- Tajik 64.9%, Uzbek 25%, Russian 3.5% (declining because of emigration), other 6.6%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day (or National Day), 9 September (1991)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 39 00 N, 71 00 E
- Location
- Central Asia, west of China, south of Kyrgyzstan
- Airports
- 66
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
The quality of Tajikistan’s medical infrastructure is significantly below Western standards, with severe shortages of basic medical supplies, including disposable needles, anesthetics, prescription drugs, and antibiotics. Many trained medical personnel left the country during or after the civil war. Elderly travelers and those with pre-existing health problems may be at particular risk due to inadequate medical facilities. Significant disease outbreaks are possible due to population shifts and a decline in some immunization coverage among the general population.