Travel Risk Atlas

Seychelles

Eastern Africa · Capital Victoria

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

16.2 Very low risk
Atlas Risk Score · 46th safest of 220
Anse Lazio — Seychelles
Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Anse Boileau — Travel with cautionAnse Etoile — Travel with cautionAnse Royale — Travel with cautionAnse aux Pins — Travel with cautionAu Cap — Travel with cautionBaie Lazare — Travel with cautionBaie Sainte Anne — Travel with cautionBaie Sainte Anne — Travel with cautionBeau Vallon — Travel with cautionBel Air — Travel with cautionBel Ombre — Travel with cautionCascade — Travel with cautionEnglish River — Travel with cautionGlacis — Travel with cautionGrand'Anse Praslin — Travel with cautionGrand'Anse Praslin — Travel with cautionGrand'Anse Praslin — Travel with cautionGrand'Anse Praslin — Travel with cautionGrand'Anse — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLa Digue and Inner Islands — Travel with cautionLes Mamelles — Travel with cautionMont Buxton — Travel with cautionMont Fleuri — Travel with cautionMont Fleuri — Travel with cautionMont Fleuri — Travel with cautionMont Fleuri — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionPlaisance — Travel with cautionPointe La Rue — Travel with cautionPort Glaud — Travel with cautionPort Glaud — Travel with cautionPort Glaud — Travel with cautionRoche Caïman — Travel with cautionSaint Louis — Travel with cautionTakamaka — Travel with caution
What governments advise Travel with caution

This map reads stronger than the world map's colour, and both are right. The world map shades Seychelles by its Atlas Risk Score — 16, 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 Seychelles is “travel with caution”.

Overseas territories, shown separately so the main map stays readable

Outer Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with cautionOuter Islands — Travel with caution
Outer Islands · Outer Islands · Outer Islands

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
27/100
47th of 220
Road & transport
10% of score
27/100
91st of 220
Crime
15% of score
25/100
57th of 220
Natural hazards
10% of score · mainly tsunami
22/100
18th of 220
Health & medical
15% of score
21/100
81st of 220
Official advisories
25% of score
7/100
67th of 220
Conflict & terrorism
15% of score
0/100
10th of 220
Women's safety
not in the score
52/100

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
999
Police, fire and ambulance
Currency
SCR
Languages
English
French, Seychellois Creole
Visa (EU passport)
90 days visa-free
US: 90 days visa-free · UK: 90 days visa-free
Population
123k
World Bank 2025
Capital
Victoria
Driving
On the left
11.3 road deaths per 100k
Power
Type G
220-240V
Safely managed water
65%
Patchy — many households lack it · of residents, not a tap-water verdict
Dialling code
+248
GDP per capita
$19k
A rough guide to price levels
Visitors a year
428k
International arrivals, 2019

When to go

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

Mildest and driest around Almost all year.

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 Seychelles:

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.