Travel Risk Atlas

Mongolia

Eastern Asia · Capital Ulan Bator

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

26.2 Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 97th safest of 220
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Photo: Vince Gx / 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 Mongolia as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Arhangay — Travel with cautionBayan-Ölgiy — Travel with cautionBayanhongor — Travel with cautionBulgan — Travel with cautionDarhan-Uul — Travel with cautionDornod — Travel with cautionDornogovi — Travel with cautionDundgovi — Travel with cautionDzavhan — Travel with cautionGovi-Altay — Travel with cautionGovĭ-Sümber — Travel with cautionHentiy — Travel with cautionHovd — Travel with cautionHövsgöl — Travel with cautionOrhon — Travel with cautionSelenge — Travel with cautionSelenge — Travel with cautionSühbaatar — Travel with cautionTöv — Travel with cautionTöv — Travel with cautionUlaanbaatar — Travel with cautionUvs — Travel with cautionÖmnögovi — Travel with cautionÖvörhangay — Travel with cautionLake BaikalKhövsgöl NuurHulun NuurHar Us NuurBuyr NuurReg NuurOzero TeletskoyeAchit NuurDalai NurTelmen NuurSangiyn Dalay NuurUlgain GobiUvs NuurKhyargas NuurHar Nuur
What governments advise Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Mongolia by its Atlas Risk Score — 26, Low — which blends government advice with crime, health, roads and natural hazards. This map shows the advice alone, and the strongest level anywhere in Mongolia 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
54/100
155th of 220
Political stability
10% of score
42/100
118th of 220
Crime
15% of score
39/100
119th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly flooding, drought
33/100
73rd of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
28/100
110th of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
10/100
82nd of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
7/100
74th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
72/100

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
102
Police 102 · Ambulance 103 · Fire 101
Currency
MNT
Languages
Mongolian
Visa (EU passport)
30 days visa-free
US: 90 days visa-free · UK: 30 days visa-free
Population
3.6m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Ulan Bator
Driving
On the right
21.0 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C, E
220-240V
Safely managed water
43%
Most households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+976
GDP per capita
$7k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
637k
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around June to August.

Daytime high freezing cold 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. Mongolia is big. These numbers describe Ulaanbaatar only — elsewhere in the country can be nothing like it.

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 Mongolia:

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.