Is Dassa-Zoumé safe? Benin travel risk
Is Dassa-Zoumé safe right now? Checked 15 October 2026
Dassa-Zoumé scores 49/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The US State Department rates Benin Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 7 Jan 2026); the UK FCDO advises against all travel to parts of the country (updated 15 Dec 2025); Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Dassa-Zoumé scores 49/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Benin (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Dassa-Zoumé: nearest emergency and transport facilities.
Driven by: security (60/100) and health and medical access (55/100).
A score of 49 is higher than the scores of 65% of the 241 countries we cover.
Consult the Benin travel risk page for nationwide security advisories, entry protocols, and consular warnings.
Location & Spatial Data
Positioned at 7.7500° N, 2.1833° E in Collines, Dassa-Zoumé features an altitude of 156 m. The settlement is located 146.9 km SSE from Porto-Novo.
Collines
7.7500° N, 2.1833° E
156 m
Africa/Porto-Novo
112,118
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (Benin)
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Dassa-Zoumé happened in August (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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