Americas · Central America
Belize
4 cities in the atlas · 8 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: Haakon S. Krohn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Belmopan
- Currency
- BZD
- Belize Dollar
- Local time
- Central Standard TimeUTC-06:00
- Calling code
- +501
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A, B and G
Facts
Belize in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Belmopan
- Currency
- Belize Dollar BZDToday's indicative rate: BZD 1 ≈ USD 0.5Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: EnglishSpoken: English and Spanish
- Time zones
- Central Standard TimeUTC-06:00
- Calling code
- +501
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A, B and G220 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 90ambulance, fire and police911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 422,924 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 22,966 km²
- Internet domain
- .bz
When to go
Climate across Belize
On these averages, Belmopan has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in July and December to February.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).
Cities
Cities in Belize
All 4 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 2
Airports
Airports in Belize
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Belize
Tell us where in Belize, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.