Africa · Western Africa
Guinea
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve · Photo: Guy Debonnet · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Conakry
- Currency
- GNF
- Guinean Franc
- Local time
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +224
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C, F and K
Facts
Guinea in figures
- Capital
- Conakry
- Currency
- Guinean Franc GNFToday's indicative rate: GNF 1,000 ≈ USD 0.114Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: FrenchSpoken: French
- Time zones
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +224
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C, F and K220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 117police18fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 15,099,727 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 245,857 km²
- Internet domain
- .gn
When to go
Climate across Guinea
- 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).
On the map
Where Guinea 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 Guinea
Airports
Airports in Guinea
Large airports
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 Guinea
Tell us where in Guinea, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.