▼Dominica SKETCH SCORE: 78/100▼Dominica moved -5 this week▪Dominica dropped five points to a 78 Sketch Score today, though the US, UK, and Canada maintain level 1 travel advisories. Monitor the current global measles health notice before you depart.▼Dominica SKETCH SCORE: 78/100▼Dominica moved -5 this week▪Dominica dropped five points to a 78 Sketch Score today, though the US, UK, and Canada maintain level 1 travel advisories. Monitor the current global measles health notice before you depart.
Dominica

Go, but pay attention.

Dominica dropped five points to a 78 Sketch Score today, though the US, UK, and Canada maintain level 1 travel advisories. Monitor the current global measles health notice before you depart.

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence high▼ -5 this week
78Sketch Score
90-day trend

Governments, one trip

What they're telling their own citizens about Dominica

United States

Lv 1

Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions

United Kingdom

Lv 1

See FCDO advice.

Canada

Lv 1

Exercise normal security precautions

The real score

The breakdown

100advisoryConsensus
82Political Stability
58Police Trust
76Health
46Crime
90LGBTQ+

See it from your perspective

78

Go, but pay attention.

The general Sketch Score, unweighted for any specific traveler.

Staying healthy

What to watch out for, health-wise

Active notices

  • • Global Measles

Vaccines

Recommended:

From people who've been there

Local know-how

Staying safe

  • •Dominica is one of the safest places to travel in the region. There are no poisonous snakes or insects in Dominica
  • •Take usual precautions when travelling around Dominica. Although rare, petty crimes are most likely to happen around Roseau. Elsewhere the island is extremely safe.

Staying healthy

  • •Tap water is safe to drink, but since it is sometimes drawn straight from Dominica's many rivers, it has a tendency to turn brown after heavy rainfall.
  • •Basic healthcare is available at Princess Margaret Hospital in Roseau.
  • •North Americans moving to Dominica often experience boils for the first time and fingernail and toenail fungi. Stomach problems are rare among travellers.
  • •Towns are sprayed with insecticides periodically to control the mosquitoes responsible for spreading Dengue fever.
  • •In the high lands and uninhabited central regions water is gathered at roadside springs.
  • •Public water is bacterially safe to drink due to heavy chlorination and has the expected chlorine flavor.

Adapted from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA — edited by travelers, not us.

Pack this, know this

The little things that trip people up

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Plug & voltage

D / G · 230V

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Driving side

left

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Emergency

police: 999 / ambulance: 999 / fire: 999

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