Plugs and voltage
Money
VES Venezuelan Bolívar VES
Average in 2017: 1 USD = 9.97 VES (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Language
- Spanishofficial82%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Venezuela is on UTC−4, with no daylight saving time.
Driving
Traffic in Venezuela drives on the right, so the steering wheel is on the left.
Public holidays in the next 12 months
15 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 Eve
- Christmas Day
- New Year's Eve
January 2027
- New Year's Day
February 2027
- Carnival Monday
- Carnival Tuesday
March 2027
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
April 2027
- Declaration of Independence
May 2027
- International Worker's Day
- Family Day
June 2027
- Battle of Carabobo
July 2027
- Independence Day
- Birthday of Simon Bolivar
October 2027
- Day of Indigenous Resistance
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
Level 3 Reconsider travel
Read the full advisory. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
- FCDO advises against all travel to parts of the country
- FCDO advises against all but essential travel to parts of the country
Updated 2026-10-14. 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
- +58
- Internet domain
- .ve
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- US-Letter
- Week starts on
- Sunday
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Flag: Flag of Venezuela.svg, Public domain. Arms: Coat of arms of Venezuela.svg, Public domain. Electricity: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), see methodology.
