Asia · Southeast Asia
Laos
4 cities in the atlas · 4 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Vientiane
- Currency
- LAK
- Laotian Kip
- Local time
- Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
- Calling code
- +856
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A, B, C, E and F
Facts
Laos in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Vientiane
- Currency
- Laotian Kip LAKToday's indicative rate: LAK 1,000 ≈ USD 0.045Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: LaoSpoken: Lao, French and English
- Time zones
- Indochina TimeUTC+07:00
- Calling code
- +856
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type A, B, C, E and F230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 190fire191police195ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 7,873,046 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 236,800 km²
- Internet domain
- .la
When to go
Climate across Laos
On these averages, Vientiane has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in October to January.
- 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 Laos
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.
Airports
Airports in Laos
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Photographs
Laos in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
VientianePhoto: Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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 Laos
Tell us where in Laos, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.