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Paraguay
3 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights
Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangüé · Photo: Falk2 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Asunción
- Currency
- PYG
- Paraguayan Guarani
- Local time
- Paraguay Standard TimeUTC-03:00
- Calling code
- +595
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C
Facts
Paraguay in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Asunción
- Currency
- Paraguayan Guarani PYGToday's indicative rate: PYG 1,000 ≈ USD 0.175Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: Guarani and SpanishSpoken: Spanish and Guarani
- Time zones
- Paraguay Standard TimeUTC-03:00
- Calling code
- +595
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 7,013,078 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 406,750 km²
- Internet domain
- .py
When to go
Climate across Paraguay
On these averages, Asunción has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in April to September.
- 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 Paraguay
All 3 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 · 1
Airports
Airports in Paraguay
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
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 Paraguay
Tell us where in Paraguay, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.