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Comoros

2 cities in the atlas · 2 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Sarahmcq · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Moroni
Currency: KMF; Comorian Franc
Local time: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +269
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E

Facts

Comoros in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Moroni
Currency: Comorian Franc KMFToday's indicative rate: KMF 100 ≈ USD 0.228Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Arabic and FrenchSpoken: Arabic and French
Time zones: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +269
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and E220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 17police18ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 882,847 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 2,170 km²
Internet domain: .km
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Comoros

On these averages, Moroni has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in May to December.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
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Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

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).

On the map

Where Comoros is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Comoros

All 2 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.

MoroniCapitalGrande Comore74,749

Smaller places with an airport · 1

Moutsamoudou

Airports

Airports in Comoros

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

HAHPrince Said Ibrahim International AirportMoroni

Medium airports · 1

AJN · Moutsamoudou

Photographs

Comoros in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Moroni
Photo: Woodlouse · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Comoros

Tell us where in Comoros, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.

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