Go with a plan.
Togo’s safety score rose to 58 today, but you remain under a level 2 advisory from the US, UK, and Canada while a global measles notice stays in effect.
Governments, one trip
What they're telling their own citizens about Togo
The real score
The breakdown
See it from your perspective
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 Measles
Vaccines
Recommended:
From people who've been there
Local know-how
Staying safe
- •As a rule, stay away from public beaches, where tourists find themselves mugged any time of day or night.
- •Driving is atrocious in Togo, with fatalistic overloaded speed demons chancing it on curves and hills, capital streets swarming with motorcycles throughout the black of night, and worrisome accident scenes along the main roads.
Staying healthy
- •Drink bottled water such as Volta or sachets of "Pure Water".
- •In rural areas you can sometimes see vendors on the side of the road selling the Ackee fruit, the trees of which are quite abundant throughout Togo.
Adapted from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA — edited by travelers, not us.
Real talk
What travelers actually say
Travelers face conflicting information regarding safety in Togo. Official government sources categorize the country as critical for crime, noting that violent crime occurs regularly and specifically targets Westerners. Conversely, some travel guides suggest that standard common-sense precautions are sufficient to navigate the region safely. There is no consensus on the actual risk level for independent travelers. Prospective visitors are left to reconcile these starkly different assessments, ranging from warnings of targeted violence to the belief that basic situational awareness mitigates most dangers. No specific advice regarding transport, scams, or safe zones is provided in the available discussions beyond these general security warnings.
“Togo is rated CRITICAL for crime; violent crime, in particular, happens on a regular basis. Although the majority of victims continue to be Togolese, there has been a rising number of incidents where U.S. citizens and other Westerners are targeted.
— r/travel
“But Lonely Planet makes it sound like just following the standard "don't be stupid" rules, you should be fine.
— r/travel
Pack this, know this
The little things that trip people up
Plug & voltage
C / E · 220V
Driving side
right
Emergency
police: 117 / ambulance: 8200 / fire: 118
Show the receipts (10 sources)
- us-state — observed 2026-07-12
- uk-fcdo — observed 2026-07-12
- ca-gac — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-political — observed 2026-07-12
- worldbank-policeTrust — observed 2026-07-12
- cdc-health — observed 2026-07-12
- wikivoyage — observed 2026-07-12
- reddit — observed 2026-07-12
- acled-hdx — observed 2026-07-12
- lgbtq-legal-wikipedia — observed 2026-07-12