Travel Risk Atlas

Moldova

Eastern Europe · Capital Chișinău

Level 2 United States Exercise Increased Caution FCDO United Kingdom Against all travel to parts Yellow Netherlands Yellow — pay attention Level 2 Canada Exercise a high degree of caution AA Germany No warning in force

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

32.3 Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 112th safest of 220
Curchi Monastery — Moldova
Photo: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Anenii Noi — Travel with cautionBasarabeasca — Travel with cautionBender — Travel with cautionBriceni — Travel with cautionBălţi — Travel with cautionCahul — Travel with cautionCamenca — Travel with cautionCantemir — Travel with cautionCauseni — Travel with cautionChişinău — Travel with cautionCimişlia — Travel with cautionComrat — Travel with cautionComrat — Travel with cautionComrat — Travel with cautionCriuleni — Travel with cautionCălărași — Travel with cautionDonduseni — Travel with cautionDrochia — Travel with cautionEdineţ — Travel with cautionFloreşti — Travel with cautionFăleşti — Travel with cautionGlodeni — Travel with cautionGrigoriopol — Travel with cautionHîncesti — Travel with cautionIaloveni — Travel with cautionLeova — Travel with cautionNisporeni — Travel with cautionOcniţa — Travel with cautionOrhei — Travel with cautionRezina — Travel with cautionRezina — Travel with cautionRîşcani — Travel with cautionSoroca — Travel with cautionStrăşeni — Travel with cautionStîngă Nistrului — Travel with cautionSîngerei — Travel with cautionTaraclia — Travel with cautionTeleneşti — Travel with cautionTransnistria — Do not travelUngheni — Travel with cautionŞoldăneşti — Travel with cautionȘtefan Vodă — Travel with caution
What governments advise Do not travel Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Moldova by its Atlas Risk Score — 32, Low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Moldova is “do not travel”.

What the warnings actually cover

  • Transnistria — Do not travel. Do-not-travel to this breakaway region, which is outside Moldovan government control and borders the war in Ukraine. Consular help there is extremely limited. Chișinău and the wine regions are unaffected.

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.

Political stability
10% of score
42/100
120th of 220
Crime
15% of score
36/100
105th of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
36/100
136th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly earthquakes, drought, flooding
34/100
80th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
33/100
156th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
26/100
94th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
16/100
48th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
53/100

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
112
Single European emergency number — police, fire and ambulance, free from any phone
Currency
MDL L
Languages
Moldavian
Visa (EU passport)
90 days visa-free
US: 90 days visa-free · UK: 90 days visa-free
Population
2.4m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Chișinău
Driving
On the right
7.3 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C, F
220-240V
Safely managed water
76%
Mostly, but not everywhere · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+373
GDP per capita
$9k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
174k
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around May to September.

Daytime high freezing cold mild warm 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.

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 Moldova:

CDC Travelers' HealthTravelHealthPro (NHS/UKHSA)

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.