Travel Risk Atlas

Paraguay

South America · Capital Asunción

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

31.5 Low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 111th safest of 220
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Photo: Tobias Meza / 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 Paraguay as a whole; shaded regions are those the UK Foreign Office names in an advisory against travel.

Alto Paraguay — Travel with cautionAlto Paraná — Travel with cautionAmambay — Travel with cautionAsunción — Travel with cautionBoquerón — Travel with cautionCaaguazú — Travel with cautionCaazapá — Travel with cautionCanindeyú — Travel with cautionCentral — Travel with cautionConcepción — Travel with cautionCordillera — Travel with cautionGuairá — Travel with cautionItapúa — Travel with cautionMisiones — Travel with cautionParaguarí — Travel with cautionPresidente Hayes — Travel with cautionSan Pedro — Travel with cautionÑeembucú — Travel with cautionRepresa Itaipu
What governments advise Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Paraguay 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 Paraguay 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
56/100
159th of 220
Crime
15% of score
46/100
154th of 220
Political stability
10% of score
45/100
137th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
29/100
115th of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
27/100
120th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly flooding
26/100
36th of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
13/100
97th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
75/100

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 · Fire and ambulance 132
Currency
PYG
Languages
Guaraní
Spanish
Visa (EU passport)
90 days visa-free
US: 90 days visa-free · UK: 90 days visa-free
Population
7.0m
World Bank 2025
Capital
Asunción
Driving
On the right
22.0 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type C
220-240V
Safely managed water
64%
Patchy — many households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+595
GDP per capita
$7k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
4.4m
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around June to September.

Daytime high warm hot extreme heat
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 Paraguay:

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.