Tbilisi airport taxi touts
Tbilisi International AirportVery commonDrivers meet arrivals and quote several times the normal fare into the city.
How to avoid it: Use Bolt or Yandex Go, both standard in Tbilisi, or the official airport bus.
Georgia
Western Asia · Capital Tbilisi
Level 1
United States
Exercise Normal Precautions
FCDO
United Kingdom
Against all travel to parts
Yellow
Netherlands
Yellow — pay attention
Level 1
Canada
Take normal security precautions
AA
Germany
No warning in force
Each opens that government's own advisory for Georgia — the authoritative version, updated far faster than this page.
29.8
Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 105th safest of 220
Atlas Risk Score · 105th safest of 220
Georgia has become one of the most popular destinations in the region: visa-free for a year for many nationalities, cheap, beautiful and genuinely welcoming. Violent crime against visitors is rare.
Two things need real care. The roads, particularly the mountain routes to Kazbegi and Svaneti, are dangerous. And the boundaries of the Russian-occupied territories are unmarked in places, with people detained for crossing lines they could not see.
Where the risk actually is
Each region is coloured by the advice that applies to most of it, drawn by hand from the wording of all five government advisories. Numbered markers flag localised warnings — usually a border strip or remote interior — that cover only a small part of an otherwise lower-risk region.
What governments advise
Do not travel
Travel with caution
Localised warning — see the notes below
This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Georgia by its Atlas Risk Score — 30, Low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Georgia is “do not travel”.
What the warnings actually cover
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Abkhazia — Do not travel. Do-not-travel to this Russian-occupied region. British officials are barred from travelling there, so no face-to-face help is possible.
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1
South Ossetia — Do not travel. Do-not-travel to the Russian-occupied region of South Ossetia, and essential-travel-only to the areas immediately along both administrative boundary lines. Tbilisi, Kazbegi, Kakheti and Batumi are unaffected.
A numbered marker warns about the small area described in its note — the rest of that region carries the base advice. Mapped by hand from the official wording in July 2026; always check the current advisory before you book.
What drives the score
Each pillar is scored 0–100 against every other country. Longer bar = more risk.
Natural hazards
10% of score ·
mainly earthquakes, flooding, drought
Political stability
10% of score
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
Road & transport
10% of score
Crime
15% of score
Health & medical
15% of score
Official advisories
25% of score
Women's safety
not in the score
Biggest factor here: natural hazards. Earthquakes, floods, cyclones, drought and tsunami exposure.
Practical facts
The things worth knowing before you land.
Emergency number
112
Single European emergency number — police, fire and ambulance, free from any phone
Currency
GEL ₾
Languages
Georgian
Visa (EU passport)
360 days visa-free
US: 360 days visa-free · UK: 360 days visa-free
Population
3.9m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Tbilisi
Driving
On the right
12.4 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C, F
220-240V
Safely managed water
71%
Patchy — many households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+995
GDP per capita
$10k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
7.7m
International arrivals, 2019
When to go
Average daytime high and nightly low for Tbilisi, over 2010-2019. Bars are rainfall; the colour band is how hot the days get.
Mildest and driest around April to June, and September to October.
7°
-2°
19
J
9°
-2°
16
F
14°
1°
24
M
20°
6°
37
A
25°
12°
58
M
30°
17°
49
J
34°
20°
23
J
33°
19°
19
A
28°
15°
23
S
20°
9°
37
O
13°
3°
23
N
9°
-1°
12
D
Daytime high
cold
mild
warm
hot
extreme heat
Common scams in Georgia
Patterns reported repeatedly by travellers and local police. None of this is about individual businesses — it's about set-ups you can learn to spot in seconds.
Wine and souvenir shop mark-ups
Tbilisi Old Town, SighnaghiCommonTourist-facing wine shops sell ordinary bottles at many times supermarket prices, sometimes with claims of age or origin that do not hold up.
How to avoid it: Buy from a supermarket or direct from a marani (winery) if you want value. Georgian wine is genuinely excellent and genuinely cheap outside the tourist streets.
Risk hotspots
Specific places that come up again and again — either in government advisories or in traveller reports. Everywhere else in Georgia is not automatically fine, but these are the areas worth a plan.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia boundary lines Security
Unmarked in places and periodically moved. Detentions of people who crossed unknowingly are regular and can last weeks.
Georgian Military Highway and the Svaneti road Traffic
Landslides, ice, unprotected drops and heavy overtaking. Winter closures and avalanches.
Caucasus high routes Natural hazard
Fast weather changes, river crossings and limited rescue. Several trekkers die each season.
Protests in central Tbilisi Security
Large demonstrations on Rustaveli Avenue have turned confrontational. Avoid them; foreigners have been caught up in police responses.
The occupied territories
South Ossetia and Abkhazia are outside Georgian government control and cannot be entered from Georgia. Entering from Russia is illegal under Georgian law and will bar you from re-entering Georgia.
More practically: the administrative boundary lines are poorly marked and have been moved. Hikers and villagers have been detained by Russian or de facto forces for straying across, sometimes only metres. Stay well clear and use marked trails near the boundary.
Mountain driving
The Georgian Military Highway to Kazbegi and the road into Svaneti are spectacular and unforgiving: landslides, ice, sheer drops without barriers, and overtaking on blind bends. Winter closes the high sections and avalanches are a genuine hazard.
Georgian driving is assertive. If you are not confident, hire a driver for the mountain legs — it is cheap and it is the safer choice.
Compare with neighbours
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 Georgia:
- US State Department advice for Georgia — current advisory
- Netherlands advice for Georgia — current advisory
- UK FCDO advice for Georgia — current advisory
- World Bank Open Data — governance, homicide, road deaths, health and economic indicators
- INFORM Risk Index 2026 (European Commission JRC) — natural hazard, epidemic and conflict exposure, coping capacity
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — travel advice and regional warnings
- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs — colour-coded travel advice, including region-level zones
- US Department of State — travel advisory levels 1-4
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.