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Haiti

6 cities in the atlas · 4 airports with scheduled flights

Official travel advice warns against all travel to Haiti at present, so we do not offer trips there. This page gives its climate and geography only.

Read the official travel advice (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

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Citadelle Laferrière · Photo: SPC Gibran Torres, United States Army · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Port-au-Prince
Currency: HTG; Haitian Gourde
Local time: Eastern Daylight TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +509
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B

Facts

Haiti in figures

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

Capital: Port-au-Prince
Currency: Haitian Gourde HTGToday's indicative rate: HTG 100 ≈ USD 0.764Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.; Also legal tender: United States Dollar (USD)
Languages: Official: Haitian Creole and FrenchSpoken: Haitian Creole and French
Time zones: Eastern Daylight TimeUTC-04:00
Calling code: +509
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B110 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 114police115fire116ambulance122policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 11,906,095 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 27,750 km²
Internet domain: .ht
Land borders: Dominican Republic

When to go

Climate across Haiti

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Port-au-Prince	30°	30°	30°	31°	31°	32°	32°	32°	32°	31°	30°	30°
Port-de-Paix	27°	27°	27°	28°	28°	29°	30°	30°	30°	29°	28°	27°
Carrefour	30°	30°	30°	31°	31°	32°	32°	32°	32°	31°	30°	30°

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 Haiti 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

Dominican Republic

Cities

Cities in Haiti

All 6 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 · 3

Airports

Airports in Haiti

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

Large airports

Medium airports · 2

Photographs

Haiti in pictures

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

Port-au-Prince
Photo: U.S. Navy, Meranda Keller · Public domain · 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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Travel advice

Official travel advice warns against all travel to Haiti at present, so we do not offer trips there. This page gives its climate and geography only.

Read the official travel advice (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

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.

Haiti

6 cities in the atlas · 4 airports with scheduled flights