Plugs and voltage
Gibraltar uses Types C and G sockets. Mains supply is 240 V at 50 Hz.
At 240 V, devices made only for 100–127 V (many American and Japanese hair dryers, curling irons and some shavers) will be damaged without a step-down converter. Chargers labelled “100–240V” work fine with just a plug adapter.
Money
£ Gibraltar Pound GIP
Average in 2025: 1 USD = 0.7595 GIP (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Language
- Englishofficial80%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Gibraltar is on UTC+1 (standard time; clocks change for daylight saving).
Driving
Traffic in Gibraltar drives on the right, so the steering wheel is on the left.
Public holidays in the next 12 months
14 national public holidays from 2 November 2026. Banks, offices and many shops close; regional holidays are not shown. Dates marked “estimated” follow a lunar calendar and can move by a day.
December 2026
- Christmas Day
- Boxing Day
- Boxing Day (observed)
January 2027
- New Year's Day
February 2027
- Winter Midterm Bank Holiday
March 2027
- Good Friday
- Easter Monday
April 2027
- Workers' Memorial Day
May 2027
- May Day
- May Day (observed)
- Spring Bank Holiday
June 2027
- King's Birthday
August 2027
- Late Summer Bank Holiday
September 2027
- Gibraltar National Day
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
No separate advisory; covered by the advisory for United Kingdom: Level 2 Exercise increased caution.
Read it. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
No warnings The FCDO does not advise against travel to Gibraltar.
Updated 2026-07-14. Read the full advice. Checked 2026-11-02.
Advisories are written for each government's own citizens and change without notice: read the original before you travel.
Other practical facts
- Calling code
- +350
- Internet domain
- .gi
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- A4
- Week starts on
- Monday
- Read more
- Wikipedia
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Flag: Flag of Gibraltar.svg, Public domain. Arms: Coat of arms of Gibraltar1.svg, Public domain. Electricity: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), see methodology.
