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Panama

7 cities in the atlas · 7 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Panama City
Currency: PAB; Panamanian Balboa
Local time: Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00
Calling code: +507
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B

Facts

Panama in figures

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

Capital: Panama City
Currency: Panamanian Balboa PABToday's indicative rate: PAB 1 ≈ USD 1Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.; Also legal tender: United States Dollar (USD)
Languages: Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish and English
Time zones: Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00
Calling code: +507
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B110 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 103fire104police911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 4,571,189 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 78,200 km²
Internet domain: .pa
Land borders: Colombia Costa Rica

When to go

Climate across Panama

On these averages, Panama City has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in December to April.

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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Panama City	29°	30°	31°	31°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°	29°
San Miguelito	29°	30°	31°	31°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°	29°
Cities good for going, of 2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2

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 Panama 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 Panama

All 7 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 · 5

Airports

Airports in Panama

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

Large airports

PTYTocumen International AirportTocumen

Medium airports · 6

Photographs

Panama in pictures

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

Panama City
Photo: JAVR2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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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Plan it

Plan a trip to Panama

Tell us where in Panama, 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

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.

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