Africa · Northern Africa
Western Sahara
2 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights
Photo: Darymaister · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Laayoune
- As recorded by GeoNames; status contested
- Currency
- MAD
- Moroccan Dirham
- Local time
- Western European Standard TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +212
- Driving
- On the right
Facts
Western Sahara in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Laayoune (as recorded by GeoNames; its status is contested internationally)
- Currency
- Moroccan Dirham MADToday's indicative rate: MAD 1 ≈ USD 0.102Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic
- Time zones
- Western European Standard TimeUTC+00:00
- Calling code
- +212
- Driving
- On the right
- Plugs
- Not recorded in Wikidata
- Emergency numbers
- Not recorded in Wikidata
- Population
- 273,008 (GeoNames, no reference year)
- Area
- 266,000 km²
- Internet domain
- .eh
- Land borders
- AlgeriaMauritaniaMorocco
When to go
Climate across Western Sahara
On these averages, Laayoune has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in September to July.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Western Sahara 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 Western Sahara
All 2 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 Western Sahara
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Medium airports · 1
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 Western Sahara
Tell us where in Western Sahara, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.