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Maldives

One city in the atlas · 7 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Malé
Currency: MVR; Maldivian Rufiyaa
Local time: Maldives TimeUTC+05:00
Calling code: +960
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, C, G, J, K and L

Facts

Maldives in figures

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

Capital: Malé
Currency: Maldivian Rufiyaa MVRToday's indicative rate: MVR 10 ≈ USD 0.647Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: DivehiSpoken: Divehi and English
Time zones: Maldives TimeUTC+05:00
Calling code: +960
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type A, C, G, J, K and L230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 102ambulance118fire119policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 529,676 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 300 km²
Internet domain: .mv
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Maldives

On these averages, Malé has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in January to April and June.

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
Malé	28°	28°	28°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°	28°

Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

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 Maldives 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

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Maldives

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.

MaléCapitalGuideKaafu Atoll103,693

Airports

Airports in Maldives

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

Large airports

Medium airports · 4

Guides

Our guides in Maldives

Maldives
The Maldives

From the journal

Plan a trip to Maldives

Tell us where in Maldives, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

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.
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.