Africa · Western Africa
Togo
One city in the atlas · one airport with scheduled flights
Koutammakou · Photo: Erik Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Lomé
- Currency
- XOF
- West African Franc
- Local time
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +228
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C
Facts
Togo in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Lomé
- Currency
- West African Franc XOFToday's indicative rate: XOF 100 ≈ USD 0.171Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: FrenchSpoken: French, Ewe and Hausa
- Time zones
- Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +228
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type C220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 117police118fire171police172policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 8,591,626 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 56,785 km²
- Internet domain
- .tg
- Land borders
- BeninBurkina FasoGhana
When to go
Climate across Togo
On these averages, Lomé has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in July to April.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Togo 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 Togo
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.
Airports
Airports in Togo
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Photographs
Togo in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
LoméPhoto: Hermannkass · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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 Togo
Tell us where in Togo, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.