Plugs and voltage
Guyana uses Types A and B sockets; Types D and G are also found. Mains supply is 110 V / 240 V at 50 Hz / 60 Hz.
Supply is mixed: both 110–120 V and 220–240 V outlets, and both 50 Hz and 60 Hz areas, are reported. Check each socket.
Voltage varies here. Both 100–127 V and 220–240 V outlets are in use. Before plugging in anything that is not labelled “100–240V”, check the socket or ask your host.
Money
$ Guyanaese Dollar GYD
Average in 2025: 1 USD = 208.5 GYD (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Price level 47 (US = 100, 2025)
Everyday household prices in Guyana are about 47% of US prices when converted at market exchange rates: cheaper than the median country (50). All countries
Language
- Englishofficial100%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Guyana is on UTC−4, with no daylight saving time.
Driving
Traffic in Guyana drives on the left, so the steering wheel is on the right. All left-driving countries
Public holidays in the next 12 months
20 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.
November 2026
- Diwali
- Diwali (observed)
December 2026
- Christmas Day
- Day After Christmas
- Day After Christmas (observed)
January 2027
- New Year's Day
February 2027
- Republic Day
March 2027
- Holi
- Good Friday
- Easter Monday
May 2027
- Labor Day
- Arrival Day
- Eid al-Adha (estimated)
- Independence Day
July 2027
- CARICOM Day
August 2027
- Emancipation Day
- Emancipation Day (observed)
- Prophet's Birthday (estimated)
- Prophet's Birthday (observed, estimated)
October 2027
- Diwali
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
Level 3 Reconsider travel
Read the full advisory. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
No warnings The FCDO does not advise against travel to Guyana.
Updated 2025-12-30. 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
- +592
- Internet domain
- .gy
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- A4
- Week starts on
- Monday
- Read more
- Wikipedia
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Flag: Flag of Guyana.svg, Public domain. Arms: Coat of arms of Guyana.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, Sodacan. Electricity: resolved by intl.life from three sources, see methodology.
