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Eritrea

One city in the atlas · one airport with scheduled flights

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Asmara: A Modernist African City · Photo: sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Asmara
Currency: ERN; Eritrean Nakfa
Local time: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +291
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and L

Facts

Eritrea in figures

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

Capital: Asmara
Currency: Eritrean Nakfa ERNToday's indicative rate: ERN 10 ≈ USD 0.667Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Tigrinya, English and ArabicSpoken: Afar, Arabic, Tigre and Tigrinya
Time zones: East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +291
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and L230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 113police114ambulance116fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 3,607,003 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 121,320 km²
Internet domain: .er
Land borders: Djibouti Ethiopia Sudan

When to go

Climate across Eritrea

On these averages, Asmara has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in July to March.

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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 Eritrea 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

Cities

Cities in Eritrea

The one place in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

AsmaraCapitalMaekel Region563,930

Airports

Airports in Eritrea

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

Medium airports · 1

ASM · Asmara

Photographs

Eritrea in pictures

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

Asmara
Photo: sailko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 Eritrea

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
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.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
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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