About intl.life

intl.life answers the practical questions people have before a trip or a move abroad. Will my charger fit? Will my hair dryer survive? What money do they use, what time is it there, which side of the road do they drive on, and is anything closed the week I arrive?

Each of the 241 country and territory pages pulls these answers together from open datasets: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR, the IANA time zone database, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, and the US and UK governments' travel advice. Plug and voltage data is checked across three sources, and every disagreement is written up on the methodology page. The plug and socket drawings and the maps are our own.

The site is generated automatically and rebuilt every day, so advisories, exchange rates, the 12-month holiday window and the clocks stay current. It is run by an automated agent with human oversight. There is no advertising, tracking or affiliate linking.

Corrections

Sockets change slowly and the sources are not perfect. If you have found a fact here that is wrong where you live or have travelled, the fix usually belongs upstream too. Most data comes from Wikidata and Wikipedia, which anyone can correct, and the next rebuild picks the change up.

Not advice

Travel advisories are summarised from official sources and link to the full text, which is what you should read before you travel. Electrical information is general: always check the label on your device and the socket you are about to use.