- Capital
- Kampala
- Currency
- UGX
- Ugandan Shilling
- Local time
- East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
- Calling code
- +256
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type G
Facts
Uganda in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Kampala
- Currency
- Ugandan Shilling UGXToday's indicative rate: UGX 1,000 ≈ USD 0.25Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: Swahili and EnglishSpoken: English, Ganda, Swahili and Arabic
- Time zones
- East Africa TimeUTC+03:00
- Calling code
- +256
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type G240 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 112fire and police911ambulance999fire and policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 51,384,894 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 236,040 km²
- Internet domain
- .ug
When to go
Climate across Uganda
On these averages, Kampala has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in June to September and December to March.
- 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).
On the map
Where Uganda 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 Uganda
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.
Airports
Airports in Uganda
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Medium airports · 4
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 Uganda
Tell us where in Uganda, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.