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Mauritius
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- Capital
- Port Louis
- Currency
- MUR
- Mauritian Rupee
- Local time
- Mauritius Standard TimeUTC+04:00
- Calling code
- +230
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type C and G
Facts
Mauritius in figures
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Currency
- Mauritian Rupee MURToday's indicative rate: MUR 10 ≈ USD 0.211Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: French and EnglishSpoken: English, Bhojpuri and French
- Time zones
- Mauritius Standard TimeUTC+04:00
- Calling code
- +230
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type C and G230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 112police114ambulance115fire995fire999policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 1,243,741 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 2,040 km²
- Internet domain
- .mu
- Land borders
- None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
When to go
Climate across Mauritius
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
| City | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Louis | 28° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 27° |
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 Mauritius 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 Mauritius
Airports
Airports in Mauritius
Large airports
Medium airports · 1
Photographs
Mauritius in pictures
Port LouisPhoto: Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons
Guides
Our guides in Mauritius
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 Mauritius
Tell us where in Mauritius, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.