Is El Paso safe? United States travel risk
Is El Paso safe right now? Checked 17 October 2026
El Paso scores 53/100 on our travel risk index (Elevated). The UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise normal security precautions. The US State Department does not issue advice for United States. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
El Paso scores 53/100 (Elevated). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and United States (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to El Paso: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (67/100) and natural hazards (58/100).
A score of 53 is higher than 69% of the cities we score.
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Local Geographic Profile
Charted at coordinates 31.8476° N, 106.4300° W in Texas, El Paso maintains a regional distance of 2,766.2 km ENE to Washington.
Texas
31.8476° N, 106.4300° W
1133 m
America/Denver
862,494
Emergency & Transport Infrastructure
Surrounding Localities in United States
Climate by Month
Hottest: June (36 °C avg high); Wettest: August (42 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 15° | 17° | 23° | 27° | 32° | 36° | 35° | 34° | 32° | 27° | 20° | 15° |
| Low °C | 2° | 3° | 7° | 11° | 16° | 21° | 23° | 22° | 19° | 13° | 6° | 2° |
| Rain mm | 16 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 32 | 42 | 30 | 19 | 15 | 17 |
Normals: Juárez (12.5 km away).
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 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of El Paso happened in May, June and August (3 of 3 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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