Travel Risk Atlas

Maldives

Southern Asia · Capital Malé

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

19.4 Very low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 65th safest of 220
Malé — Maldives
Photo: Shahee Ilyas / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

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What governments advise Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Maldives by its Atlas Risk Score — 19, Very low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Maldives 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.

Political stability
10% of score
44/100
132nd of 220
Crime
15% of score
34/100
92nd of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly tsunami
27/100
37th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
20/100
112th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
12/100
51st of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
2/100
34th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
1/100
5th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
77/100

Biggest factor here: political stability. Risk of unrest, coups and abrupt instability disrupting a trip.

Practical facts

The things worth knowing before you land.

Emergency number
102
Police 119 · Ambulance 102
Currency
MVR
Languages
Maldivian
Visa (EU passport)
Visa on arrival
US: Visa on arrival · UK: Visa on arrival
Population
530k
World Bank 2025
Capital
Malé
Driving
On the left
1.6 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type D, G
220-240V
Basic water access
100%
Widely available · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+960
GDP per capita
$15k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
1.7m
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around January to April.

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 Maldives:

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.