Is Armação dos Búzios safe? Brazil travel risk
Is Armação dos Búzios safe right now? Checked 15 October 2026
Armação dos Búzios scores 59/100 on our travel risk index (Elevated). The US State Department rates Brazil Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 31 Aug 2026); the UK FCDO advises against all but essential travel to parts of the country (updated 29 Sep 2026); 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.
Armação dos Búzios scores 59/100 (Elevated). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Brazil (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Armação dos Búzios: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (68/100) and crime and scams (73/100).
A score of 59 is higher than the scores of 84% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Geographic & Regional Coordinates
Positioned at 22.7469° S, 41.8819° W in Rio de Janeiro, Armação dos Búzios features an altitude of 9 m. The settlement is located 996.9 km NW from Brasília.
Rio de Janeiro
22.7469° S, 41.8819° W
9 m
America/Sao_Paulo
40,006
Emergency & Aviation Access
Nearby Towns & Settlements in Brazil
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 Armação dos Búzios happened in November (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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