Go with a plan.
Numbeo's Safety Index puts Almaty at 47/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Kazakhstan's national picture overall (68/100 vs 71/100).
City page · part of Kazakhstan
The one number a country page can't give you
What people who actually live in Almaty report
Numbeo aggregates thousands of resident-submitted perception surveys into a per-city Crime Index (higher = worse) and its inverse, a Safety Index — the only real city-granularity crime signal feeding this page, alongside Kazakhstan's national advisory, political, health, and police-trust data.
Crime Index
52.8
Safety Index
47.2
Sub-scores
Same real inputs as Kazakhstan's national page, with crime swapped for Almaty's own Numbeo number above.
Local know-how
Staying safe in Almaty, specifically
- • Beware of traffic, safeguard valuables and take care when drunk, same as anywhere else.
- • Emergency numbers are 101 Fire, 102 Police and 103 Ambulance.
Legal status (national law)
Legal since 1998
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The little things that trip people up
Plug & voltage
C / F · 230V
Driving side
right
Emergency
police: 112 / ambulance: 112 / fire: 112
Cash vs. Card
The national currency is tenge, denoted by the symbol "₸" or "T" (Cyrillic: тенге, ISO code: KZT). On Wikivoyage we use tenge to denote the currency, e.g. 100 tenge. Coins come in denominations of ₸1-, ₸2-, ₸5-, ₸10-, ₸20-, ₸50-, ₸100 and ₸200. Banknotes come in denominations of ₸200-, ₸500-, ₸1,000-, ₸2,000-, ₸5,000-, ₸10,000 and ₸20,000.
How this compares to Kazakhstan
Numbeo's Safety Index puts Almaty at 47/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Kazakhstan's national picture overall (68/100 vs 71/100).
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