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Governments, one trip
What they're telling their own citizens about Cote d'Ivoire
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The breakdown
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The general Sketch Score, unweighted for any specific traveler.
Staying healthy
What to watch out for, health-wise
Active notices
No active CDC travel health notices right now.
Tap water safe to drink: No — bottled/filtered only
Vaccines
Required: Yellow Fever
Recommended: Chikungunya, Cholera, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Measles, Meningococcal disease, Polio, Rabies, Typhoid
Source: CDC Travelers' Health →Getting in
What you'll need at the border
Visitors to Ivory Coast must obtain a visa from one of the Ivorian diplomatic missions or online unless they come from one of the visa-exempt countries. All visitors must hold a passport valid for at least 6 months.
Passport validity required: 6 months beyond entry.
Source: Wikipedia →From people who've been there
Local know-how
Staying safe
- •Côte d'Ivoire experiences periodic political unrest and violence in northern regions, and it is recommended to contact your embassy or consult other travellers about the present situation prior to travel inland.
- •The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth office as well as the US State Department advises against all but essential travel to the western regions of Dix-Huit Montagnes, Haut-Sassandra, Moyen-Cavally and Bas-Sassandra of Côte d'Ivoire at this time.
- •Most of the crime committed in Abidjan is by unemployed youth.
- •On 14 March 2016, militants killed at least 16 people in a gun attack on a Grand Bassam beach resort about 40 km from Abidjan.
- •If you drive at night do not stop fully at lights or signs.
Staying healthy
- •HIV/AIDS had once reached epidemic proportions in the country but has since seen huge improvements with an adult prevalence of 2.7% as of 2016.
- •Tap water is generally not drinkable. Stick to bottled water.
Adapted from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA — edited by travelers, not us.
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Plug & voltage
C / E · 230V
Emergency
police: 110 or 111 or 170 / ambulance: 185 / fire: 180
Cash vs. Card
The currency of the country is the West African CFA franc, denoted CFA (ISO currency code: XOF). It's also used by seven other West African countries. It is interchangeable at par with the Central African CFA franc (XAF), which is used by six countries. Both currencies are fixed at a rate of 1 euro = 655.957 CFA francs.
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- us-state — observed 2026-09-09
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- worldbank-political — observed 2026-09-09
- worldbank-policeTrust — observed 2026-09-09
- wikivoyage — observed 2026-09-09
- lgbtq-legal-wikipedia — observed 2026-09-09