Jordan international travel guide in 2022

Jordan 🇯🇴

Jordan is part of Asia with main city at Amman. It's usually 🌤️ 25.33 °C in Jordan with a rainfall of 🌧 0.23 mm. Tipping is expected in Jordan since staff depend on tips to supplement their often minimum wages. Internet speed in Jordan is on average 3.3 Mbps. Its Developing country with a population of 10M people. The main currency is Jordanian Dinar. The languages spoken are Arabic. Automatic teller machines are common in Jordan. Current travel safety advice is Exercise a high degree of caution. Get other useful information like socket plugs, SIM cards and emergency numbers.

👍 Developing 🌤️ ~25.33 °C 🌧 ~0.23 mm 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 10M people

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🛡️ Travel safety

Exercise a high degree of caution

We've reviewed our advice for Jordan. We haven't changed the level of our travel advice. We continue to advise exercise a high degree of caution. Higher levels apply. We advise: Exercise a high degree of caution in Jordan overall due to the threat of terrorist attack. Higher levels apply in some areas.

Issue date: July 22, 2022

Weather

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General

🔌 Sockets

Jordan uses 230V, 50Hz with sockets and plugs Type C, Type D, Type F, Type G and Type J.

🌐 Languages

The languages that are typically spoken are Arabic

Money

💱 Currencies Used

Jordan uses the Jordanian dinar (symbol: ?.?), code JOD.Banknotes come in denominations of 50, 20, 10, 5 and 1 dinars. Dinar is subdivided into 100 piastres. Coins come in denominations of 1 dinar and 50, 25, 10, 1 and 0 piastres.

🏧 ATMs

Automatic teller machines are common in Jordan. You can usually find them in both large & small cities.You do not need a chip & PIN card to use an ATM — your standard magnetic card will work fine.

💁‍♂️ Tipping

Expected to tip Tipping is expected in Jordan since staff depend on tips to supplement their often minimum wages.

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📡 Internet

Internet speed in Jordan is on average 3.3 Mbps. WiFi coverage in Jordan is low. It is not as easy to find one.

📱 Phones

You can buy a SIM card for about 9.98 JOD, which includes 3 GB of data plan. You can choose from 3 telecoms: Orange, Umniah or Zain. Jordan uses GSM mobile networks GSM 900 and GSM 1800. If you don't want to buy SIM card in Jordan upon arrival, make sure to check the roaming charges with your telecom provider before your departure so there are no surprises when you return home.

📞 Calling

To call Jordan, dial +, then 962 (the country code for Jordan), then the area code (without the initial 0) and the local number. For local calls within Jordan, start with the area code (with the initial 0). In the case above area code is 6 .

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