Eritrea international travel guide in 2021

Eritrea 🇪🇷

Eritrea is part of Africa with main city at Asmara. It's usually 🌤️ 23.55 °C in Eritrea with a rainfall of 🌧 8.47 mm. Internet speed in Eritrea is on average 1.1 Mbps. Its Least Developed country with a population of 5M people. The main currency is Nakfa. The languages spoken are Tigrinya, Arabic and English. Current travel safety advice is Reconsider your need to travel. Get other useful information like socket plugs, SIM cards and emergency numbers.

👍 Least Developed 🌤️ ~23.55 °C 🌧 ~8.47 mm 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 5M people

Travel restrictions

Advice

🛡️ Travel safety

Reconsider your need to travel

Some international flights into and from Asmara have resumed but remain limited. Check with your airline. Local authorities have relaxed COVID-19 restrictions. There remains the possibility of curfews, travel restrictions or other measures being re-introduced at short notice. Regularly check the advice of local authorities. We now advise: Reconsider your need to travel to Eritrea overall due to: the high risk of instability and violence impacts of COVID-19.

Issue date: October 28, 2021

Weather

🌤️ Temperature

🌧 Rainfall

General

🔌 Sockets

Eritrea uses 230V, 50Hz with sockets and plugs Type C and Type L.

🌐 Languages

The languages that are typically spoken are Tigrinya, Arabic and English

Money

💱 Currencies Used

Eritrea uses the Eritrean nakfa (symbol: Nfk), code ERN.Banknotes come in denominations of 100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 nakfas. Nakfa is subdivided into 100 cents. Coins come in denominations of 1 nakfa and 50, 25, 10, 5 and 1 cents.

Calling

📡 Internet

Internet speed in Eritrea is on average 1.1 Mbps. WiFi coverage in Eritrea is very low. It's quite hard to find one.

📞 Calling

To call Eritrea, dial +, then 291 (the country code for Eritrea), then the area code (without the initial 0) and the local number. For local calls within Eritrea, start with the area code (with the initial 0). In the case above area code is 8 .

Driving