▲Timor-Leste SKETCH SCORE: 69/100▲Timor-Leste moved +7 this week▪Timor-Leste's safety score rose to 69 today, though both US and Canadian governments maintain a level 2 advisory alongside active global alerts for dengue and measles.▲Timor-Leste SKETCH SCORE: 69/100▲Timor-Leste moved +7 this week▪Timor-Leste's safety score rose to 69 today, though both US and Canadian governments maintain a level 2 advisory alongside active global alerts for dengue and measles.
Timor-Leste

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Timor-Leste's safety score rose to 69 today, though both US and Canadian governments maintain a level 2 advisory alongside active global alerts for dengue and measles.

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence med▲ +7 this week
69Sketch Score
90-day trend

Governments, one trip

What they're telling their own citizens about Timor-Leste

United States

Lv 2

Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution

Canada

Lv 2

Exercise a high degree of caution

The real score

The breakdown

67advisoryConsensus
72Political Stability
37Police Trust
72Health
92Crime
90LGBTQ+

See it from your perspective

69

Go with a plan.

The general Sketch Score, unweighted for any specific traveler.

Staying healthy

What to watch out for, health-wise

Active notices

  • • Global Dengue
  • • Global Measles

Vaccines

Recommended:

From people who've been there

Local know-how

Staying safe

  • •Timor-Leste continues to face sporadic internal ethnic & political tension and related violence may occur.
  • •Foreigners or tourists have been targets for violence in Timor-Leste, so visitors should be responsible and adhere to standard precautions as in any developing country.
  • •Avoid large gatherings (demonstrations have had the potential to escalate with little or no warning in the past).
  • •Timor-Leste travel advisories: Australian Government Travel Advisory Canadian Government Travel Advice US Consular Information on Timor Leste UK Government Travel Advice

Staying healthy

  • •Malaria is no longer an issue in Timor-Leste.
  • •Tap water is not safe to drink. Boil it or treat it before consuming, or drink bottled water.
  • •Hospitals and doctors: There are hospitals in main centres, and clinics in many sub-districts elsewhere but medical care is not up to dealing with sustained or complex medical emergencies.
  • •Dili - Dili National Hospital, in Bidau Santana.
  • •Pante Makassar, Oecussi - in town near the port.

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

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Emergency

police: 112 / ambulance: 112 / fire: 112

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