Travel Risk Atlas

Guyana

South America · Capital Georgetown

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

38.5 Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 133rd safest of 220
green trees near white concrete building during daytime
Photo: Dinesh Chandrapal / 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 Guyana as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Barima-Waini — Travel with cautionCuyuni-Mazaruni — Travel with cautionDemerara-Mahaica — Travel with cautionDemerara-Mahaica — Travel with cautionDemerara-Mahaica — Travel with cautionEast Berbice-Corentyne — Travel with cautionEssequibo Islands-West Demerara — Travel with cautionMahaica-Berbice — Travel with cautionPomeroon-Supenaam — Travel with cautionPotaro-Siparuni — Travel with cautionUpper Demerara-Berbice — Travel with cautionUpper Takutu-Upper Essequibo — Travel with caution
What governments advise Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Guyana by its Atlas Risk Score — 38, Low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Guyana is “travel with caution”.

What the warnings actually cover

  • Whole countryTravel with caution. No government currently advises against travel to any part of this country. The colour reflects general caution levels only, not a warned area.

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.

Road & transport
10% of score
57/100
161st of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
51/100
154th of 220
Crime
15% of score
49/100
167th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly flooding
45/100
151st of 220
Political stability
10% of score
40/100
110th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
27/100
143rd of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
18/100
101st of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
44/100

Biggest factor here: road & transport. Road deaths per 100,000 people - the risk travellers most underestimate.

Practical facts

The things worth knowing before you land.

Emergency number
911
Police 911 · Ambulance 913 · Fire 912
Currency
GYD $
Languages
English
Visa (EU passport)
90 days visa-free
US: 90 days visa-free · UK: 90 days visa-free
Population
836k
World Bank 2025
Capital
Georgetown
Driving
On the left
22.3 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type A, B, D, G
110-127V
Safely managed water
67%
Patchy — many households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+592
GDP per capita
$32k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
315k
International arrivals, 2019
Malaria risk
9.0/10
INFORM exposure score — see a travel clinic

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around January to April, and September to October.

Daytime high hot
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 Guyana:

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.