Travel Risk Atlas

Cuba

Caribbean · Capital Havana

Each opens that government's own advisory for Cuba — the authoritative version, updated far faster than this page.

35.3 Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 124th safest of 220
red convertible car on road during daytime
Photo: Daniel Seßler / Unsplash

Where the risk actually is

Risk is rarely spread evenly across a country. The base colour is the code the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives Cuba as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Artemisa — Essential travel onlyArtemisa — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCamagüey — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCiego de Ávila — Essential travel onlyCienfuegos — Essential travel onlyCiudad de la Habana — Essential travel onlyGranma — Essential travel onlyGuantánamo — Essential travel onlyHolguín — Essential travel onlyHolguín — Essential travel onlyIsla de la Juventud — Essential travel onlyIsla de la Juventud — Essential travel onlyIsla de la Juventud — Essential travel onlyIsla de la Juventud — Essential travel onlyIsla de la Juventud — Essential travel onlyLas Tunas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMatanzas — Essential travel onlyMayabeque — Essential travel onlyPinar del Río — Essential travel onlyPinar del Río — Essential travel onlySancti Spíritus — Essential travel onlySancti Spíritus — Essential travel onlySancti Spíritus — Essential travel onlySantiago de Cuba — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel onlyVilla Clara — Essential travel only
What governments advise Essential travel only

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Cuba by its Atlas Risk Score — 35, Low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Cuba is “essential travel only”.

What the warnings actually cover

  • Whole countryEssential travel only. Governments advise against all but essential travel to the whole country, not to particular regions — so there is no safer part of the map to aim for. Travel insurance is normally void here.

Shading marks whole regions named in an advisory, but a warning is often narrower — a border strip, one road, or a single city. Read the wording, and check the official advisory linked below.

What drives the score

Each pillar is scored 0–100 against every other country. Longer bar = more risk.

Official advisories
25% of score
50/100
184th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly cyclones, earthquakes
48/100
168th of 220
Political stability
10% of score
41/100
117th of 220
Crime
15% of score
40/100
121st of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
23/100
113th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
21/100
66th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
16/100
61st of 220

Biggest factor here: official advisories. What the US, UK and Dutch governments currently tell their own citizens about travelling here.

Practical facts

The things worth knowing before you land.

Emergency number
106
Police 106 · Ambulance 104
Currency
CUC $
Languages
Spanish
Visa (EU passport)
e-Visa
US: e-Visa · UK: e-Visa
Population
10.9m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Havana
Driving
On the right
8.9 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type A, B, C
110-127V
Basic water access
95%
Widely available · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+53
GDP per capita
$10k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
4.3m
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

Average daytime high and nightly low for Havana, over 2010-2019. Bars are rainfall; the colour band is how hot the days get.

Mildest and driest around Almost all year.

Daytime high hot extreme heat
Top figure is the average daytime high, below it the average nightly low, and millimetres of rain under each bar. Figures are the average daytime high; bar heights are the month's rainfall. Shaded months are the mild, drier ones. Source: NASA POWER daily observations, 2010-2019, public domain.

Sources for this page

Vaccinations, malaria and outbreaks. This atlas does not give medical advice — it is personal, it changes, and it is the one thing worth getting from a doctor. Both national services publish current advice for Cuba:

Check the official advisory before you book. This page reflects data as of August 2026. Advisories change without warning, and only your own government's advice affects your travel insurance.