Plugs and voltage
Mauritius uses Types C and G sockets; Type E is also found. Mains supply is 230 V at 50 Hz.
Type G and Type C are most common.
At 230 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.
Adapter guides: from South Africa
Money
Rs Mauritian Rupee MUR
Average in 2025: 1 USD = 46.00 MUR (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Price level 44 (US = 100, 2025)
Everyday household prices in Mauritius are about 44% of US prices when converted at market exchange rates: cheaper than the median country (50). All countries
Language
- Frenchofficial73%
- Englishofficial72%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Mauritius is on UTC+4, with no daylight saving time.
Driving
Traffic in Mauritius drives on the left, so the steering wheel is on the right. All left-driving countries
Public holidays in the next 12 months
16 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
- Arrival of Indentured Laborers
- Diwali
December 2026
- Christmas Day
January 2027
- New Year's Day
- Day after New Year's Day
- Thaipusam
February 2027
- Abolition of Slavery
- Chinese Spring Festival
March 2027
- Maha Shivaratri
- Eid al-Fitr (estimated)
- Independence and Republic Day
April 2027
- Ugadi
May 2027
- Labor Day
September 2027
- Ganesh Chaturthi
October 2027
- Diwali
November 2027
- All Saints' Day
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
Level 2 Exercise increased caution
Read the full advisory. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
No warnings The FCDO does not advise against travel to Mauritius.
Updated 2026-10-19. 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
- +230
- Internet domain
- .mu
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- A4
- Week starts on
- Monday
- Read more
- Wikipedia
More in Eastern Africa
Flag: Flag of Mauritius.svg, Public domain. Arms: Coat of arms of Mauritius.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, User:Escondites. Electricity: resolved by intl.life from three sources, see methodology.
