The pitch
How sketchy is it, really?
Every "is it safe to visit" search leads to the same two dead ends: a government advisory written in legal hedge-speak, or a blog post from 2019. SKETCH.WORLD is the third option —195 countries, scored daily from the same government feeds, the same governance data, and real traveler write-ups, updated the moment something changes.
Brutally honest, never bland
If pickpockets own a train station, we say so. If a scam is common enough to have a name, we name it. No "exercise increased caution" corporate-speak — that phrase means five different things depending which government wrote it, and none of them help you pack. Every blunt claim on this site is sourced: see the "show the receipts" section on any country page for the exact feed it came from.
The one line we don't cross
We're savage about facts, situations, and institutions — never about peoples. A corrupt police force gets called corrupt. A country doesn't get characterized by the ethnicity or religion of the people who live there. That line is what keeps this credible instead of just inflammatory, and it's non-negotiable.
Fresh beats perfect
Every score carries a "last verified" date and a visible history. Most competitors in this space are stale by design — a ranking published once and never revisited. Ours updates on a schedule, and when something changes, the site says so out loud instead of quietly editing the number.
Who's behind this
A single-person project, not a company. No investors to please, no advertiser to soften a score for. See how we scorefor the exact math, and the free APIif you want the raw data for your own project.
Sketch Scores are informational opinions synthesized from public data, not professional security advice. Always check your own government's official travel advisory before you go.