Bhutan
Level calmupdated 4 min agoNo underlying concern: official advisories are at ease about this country.
What are the main risks in Bhutan?
Over the last 12 months, our sensors recorded 2 events there, including 0 severe. The most frequent: Earthquake.
Is there a government travel advisory for Bhutan?
Yes — of the 19 governments we track, 0 advise against travel and 1 urges extra caution. The detail is in the security section below.
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Bhutan: current alerts and safety news
The past month in the country — closed episodes included.
Nothing notable in the last 7 days.
Last 90 days
- Calm
- Moderate / High
- Critical
- N/A
Colour = the country level observed that day (highest of the day). N/A: before our records began.
Is it safe to travel to Bhutan?
Little was recorded here over the last 12 months. Our sensors logged no event at all, and no severe one. The severity level is 0, the lowest we use, and no state currently advises against travel. That is what the data says, no more: an empty record is not a guarantee, only an absence of reports. One figure stands on its own. The homicide rate is 2.5 per 100,000 inhabitants, against a world median of 2.1. It counts homicides and nothing else. It says nothing about theft, scams or what an ordinary day feels like, and no worldwide data covers petty crime. No hazard here shows a season in our records, so there is no month we can point to. No area stands out either, because nothing was logged that we could place on a map.
What it changes for a nomad
For a stay of several weeks, this is a thin file rather than a reassuring one. Nothing in the record points to a month to avoid or a month to prefer, so your dates come down to your own constraints, not to risk. Plan on your own checks rather than ours: what your insurer covers, what your foreign ministry publishes before you go, what your building or your host tells you about water, power and roads. The one measured number we hold, 2.5 homicides per 100,000 against a world median of 2.1, sits near the middle of the world and tells you nothing about the phone in your pocket. Treat everyday theft as an open question, the way you would anywhere you do not know yet. If an advisory appears while you are there, it is new information, not a correction of this page.
Written with the help of AI from Mira Safe's sourced data on August 21, 2026 · does not replace local guidance How this analysis is produced →
1 earlier analysis
August 21, 2026
Bhutan recorded no major security events or natural disasters over the last 12 months. The homicide rate is 2.5 per 100,000, just above the world median of 2.1. There are no live alerts or official travel advisories. This is among the lowest-risk travel profiles.
To watch as a rule
- The empty record itself: nothing was logged over the last 12 months, so read this page as missing data, not as clearance.
- The arrival of a first official advisory, since none is on file today.
- Everyday theft, which no worldwide dataset measures and which our figures do not cover.
- The homicide rate, 2.5 per 100,000 against a world median of 2.1, the only measured figure we hold.
Good reflexes
- Save your address and a local emergency number offline before you land.
- Read your own foreign ministry's page on the country the week you book, then again the week you leave.
- Keep a photo of your passport and visa somewhere that opens without a signal.
- Split your cash between two places instead of one wallet.
- Tell one person back home your route for the week and update them when it changes.
Bhutan: travel advisories and areas to avoid
What the 19 tracked governments officially advise for this country — converging or not. The everyday reference.
None of the 19 countries surveyed advises against this country; 1 recommends increased caution.
Bhutan: quality of life and safety in figures
Everyday living conditions, on the few indicators published for every country in the world. Background for a stay — not what is happening today.
Favourable vs the world median
- New displacements, disasters: 0.15 per 1,000 people (median 0.73)
Watch out vs the world median
- Homicides: 2.5 per 100,000 people (median 2.3)
- Air quality (PM2.5): 30.1 µg/m³ (median 17.3)
- Safely managed drinking water: 65.6 % of the population (median 80.5)
- Road deaths: 16.2 per 100,000 people (median 15.2)
- Physicians: 0.55 per 1,000 people (median 1.7)
- Hospital beds: 2.2 per 1,000 people (median 2.4)
Above the world median (17.3) · lower is better
WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³
Below the world median (80.5) · higher is better
Above the world median (15.2) · lower is better
Below the world median (1.7) · higher is better
Below the world median (2.4) · higher is better
Close to the world median (74.7) · higher is better
Below the world median (0.73) · lower is better
120 people in total
Security and violence
Structural risk (INFORM) · 2026
2.8/10 — low
Composite index by the JRC (European Commission): hazards & exposure, vulnerability, coping capacity. Structural background — not today's alerts.
Close to the world median (2.3).
Source: UNODC, via the World Bank (CC BY 4.0)
Homicides are the only crime figure that exists worldwide under an open licence. It says nothing about theft or scams — no reliable worldwide data exists for those; official state advisories are the honest day-to-day reference.
National figures, published once a year and often a few years behind: an order of magnitude for daily life, never the situation right now. Sources: World Bank (CC BY 4.0)
Bhutan: natural disasters and risks in figures
Last 30 days · 2 events
Eventsof which severe- Earthquake2
Last 12 months · 2 events
Eventsof which severe- Earthquake2
By month
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What travellers lived
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