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Travel and Tourism in United Arab Emirates
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to United Arab Emirates.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 3: Reconsider Travel
- Time Difference
- UTC+4 (9 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
- Currency
- Emirati dirham (AED)
- Climate
- Rainfall is low; but humidity is uncomfortably high. May to October is extremely hot, with shade temperatures of 29°C (85°F) to 50°C (122°F) and frequent 100% humidity. During the cool season (December-February) the weather is damp and seems colder than the 10°C (50°F) the thermometer sometimes indicates. During the rest of the year, the climate is pleasant, except for occasional sandstorms and hot, dry winds, which blow off the Empty Quarter of Arabia.
- Ethnic Groups
- Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8%
- National Holiday
- Independence Day (National Day), 2 December (1971)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 24 00 N, 54 00 E
- Location
- Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia
- Airports
- 35
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
UNESCO World Heritage in the UAE (2 Sites)
The Cultural Sites of Al Ain inscription by UNESCO in 2011, covering the Al Ain Oasis and related archaeological sites at Hafit, Hili, and Bidaa Bint Saud, represents international recognition of the UAE's most important contribution to the global heritage of human civilization. The inscription encompasses the oasis itself, a 1,200-hectare landscape of date palm gardens fed by ancient falaj channels; the Hafit period burial tombs on Jebel Hafeet, some of the oldest monuments in the UAE at approximately 3,000 years before the common era; the Hili Archaeological Park, containing the most important Bronze Age remains in the Arabian Peninsula; and the network of ancient settlements and water management infrastructure that together demonstrate four thousand years of continuous organized human habitation in this desert oasis environment.
The significance of the Al Ain UNESCO inscription lies not merely in the age of the sites but in the continuity they represent. The same falaj channels that irrigated the fields of the Umm al Nar culture in the third millennium before the common era continued to function, through generations of maintenance and extension, into the modern era.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Basic modern medical care and medicines are available in the principal cities of the UAE, but not necessarily in outlying areas.
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