Asia · Central Asia
Turkmenistan
6 cities in the atlas · 6 airports with scheduled flights
Köneürgenç · Photo: Doron · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- Currency
- TMT
- Turkmenistani Manat
- Local time
- Turkmenistan Standard TimeUTC+05:00
- Calling code
- +993
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type B, C and F
Facts
Turkmenistan in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Ashgabat
- Currency
- Turkmenistani Manat TMTToday's indicative rate: TMT 1 ≈ USD 0.286Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: TurkmenSpoken: Turkmen, Russian and Uzbek
- Time zones
- Turkmenistan Standard TimeUTC+05:00
- Calling code
- +993
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Type B, C and F220 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
- 7,618,847 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 488,100 km²
- Internet domain
- .tm
- Land borders
- AfghanistanIranKazakhstanUzbekistan
When to go
Climate across Turkmenistan
On these averages, Ashgabat has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in April, May, September and October.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Turkmenistan 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 Turkmenistan
All 6 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 Turkmenistan
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Photographs
Turkmenistan in pictures
Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.
AshgabatPhoto: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · 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 Turkmenistan
Tell us where in Turkmenistan, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.