Travel Risk Atlas

Madagascar

Eastern Africa · Capital Antananarivo

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

50.3 Moderate risk
Atlas Risk Score · 168th safest of 220
Avenue of the Baobabs — Madagascar
Photo: Pat Hooper from Chicago, IL, USA / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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 Madagascar as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Alaotra-Mangoro — Travel with cautionAmoron'i Mania — Travel with cautionAnalamanga — Travel with cautionAnalanjirofo — Travel with cautionAnalanjirofo — Travel with cautionAndroy — Travel with cautionAnosy — Travel with cautionAtsimo-Andrefana — Travel with cautionAtsimo-Atsinanana — Travel with cautionAtsinanana — Travel with cautionBetsiboka — Travel with cautionBoeny — Travel with cautionBongolava — Travel with cautionDiana — Travel with cautionDiana — Travel with cautionHaute Matsiatra — Travel with cautionIhorombe — Travel with cautionItasy — Travel with cautionMelaky — Travel with cautionMenabe — Travel with cautionSava — Travel with cautionSofia — Travel with cautionVakinankaratra — Travel with cautionVatovavy-Fitovinany — Travel with cautionLac Alaotra
What governments advise 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.

Health & medical
15% of score
77/100
207th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
76/100
189th of 220
Crime
15% of score
65/100
203rd of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly cyclones, tsunami, flooding, drought
56/100
187th of 220
Political stability
10% of score
54/100
178th of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
36/100
139th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
20/100
138th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
84/100

Biggest factor here: health & medical. Disease environment plus how good the care is if you need it.

Practical facts

The things worth knowing before you land.

Emergency number
117
Police 117 · Fire 118
Currency
MGA Ar
Languages
French
Malagasy
Visa (EU passport)
Visa on arrival
US: Visa on arrival · UK: Visa on arrival
Population
32.7m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Antananarivo
Driving
On the right
29.2 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C, E
220-240V
Safely managed water
22%
Most households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+261
GDP per capita
$599
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
486k
International arrivals, 2019
Malaria risk
9.7/10
INFORM exposure score — see a travel clinic

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around April to June, and August to October.

Daytime high mild warm
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 Madagascar:

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.