Is Mahajanga safe? Madagascar travel risk
Is Mahajanga safe right now? Checked 21 October 2026
Mahajanga scores 56/100 on our travel risk index (Elevated). The US State Department rates Madagascar Level 2 (Exercise Increased Caution, updated 5 Dec 2025); the UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Mahajanga scores 56/100 (Elevated). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and Madagascar (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Mahajanga: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (60/100) and health and medical access (79/100).
A score of 56 is higher than 75% of the cities we score.
Consult the Madagascar travel risk page for nationwide security advisories, entry protocols, and consular warnings.
Location & Spatial Data
Charted at coordinates 15.6700° S, 46.3450° E in Mahajanga, Mahajanga maintains a regional distance of 381.4 km SSE to Antananarivo.
Mahajanga
15.6700° S, 46.3450° E
20 m
Indian/Antananarivo
246,022
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (Madagascar)
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | — |
Most wildfire events within 100 km of Mahajanga happened in September (3 of 4 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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