Africa · Eastern Africa
Réunion
3 cities in the atlas · 2 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: B.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Saint-Denis
- Currency
- EUR
- Euro
- Local time
- Réunion TimeUTC+04:00
- Calling code
- +262
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type E
Facts
Réunion in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Saint-Denis
- Currency
- Euro EURToday's indicative rate: EUR 1 ≈ USD 1.12Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: FrenchSpoken: French
- Time zones
- Réunion TimeUTC+04:00
- Calling code
- +262
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type E220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 112general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 776,948 (GeoNames, no reference year)
- Area
- 2,517 km²
- Internet domain
- .re
- Land borders
- None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
When to go
Climate across Réunion
On these averages, Saint-Denis has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in January to December.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Réunion 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 Réunion
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 · 2
Airports
Airports in Réunion
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 Réunion
Tell us where in Réunion, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.