Africa · Southern Africa
Lesotho
One city in the atlas · one airport with scheduled flights
Photo: OER Africa · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Maseru
- Currency
- LSL
- Lesotho Loti
- Local time
- South Africa Standard TimeUTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +266
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type D
Facts
Lesotho in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Maseru
- Currency
- Lesotho Loti LSLToday's indicative rate: LSL 10 ≈ USD 0.605Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Also legal tender: South African Rand (ZAR)
- Languages
- Official: Southern Sotho and EnglishSpoken: English, Southern Sotho, Zulu and Xhosa
- Time zones
- South Africa Standard TimeUTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +266
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type D220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 112police114ambulance115fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 2,363,325 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 30,355 km²
- Internet domain
- .ls
- Land borders
- South Africa
When to go
Climate across Lesotho
On these averages, Maseru has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in September to April.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Lesotho 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 Lesotho
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.
Airports
Airports in Lesotho
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
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 Lesotho
Tell us where in Lesotho, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.