Travel Advisory Tracker

01The Map

Every country and area the State Department has an advisory for, colored by its level today. Hover over or tap a country for its level and the date of its latest advisory; click it to see its full history below. Small islands and territories that are too small to see on the map are in the table in section 03.

One level per country can hide higher-risk regions inside it. Many advisories set their own, higher levels for particular states, provinces or border areas, Mexico's among them. Check the full advisory for where you are actually going.

Some places share one shape on the map: France's overseas departments are drawn as part of France, and Gaza and the West Bank as one area colored by the higher of their two levels. The United States has no advisory for itself. Map outlines: Natural Earth via the world-atlas package.

02The Latest Changes

Every recorded change: advisories raised, lowered or added since January 2018, newest first. For the latest change in each country, the risks its current advisory names are shown underneath. Most advisories are reissued without any change in level; only changes in level are listed here. In the last 30 days, 1 advisory was raised and 1 lowered.

A date starting with “by” means the change happened some time before that date: the archived copies of the feed before 2026 are days or months apart, so the exact day is not known. Hover over the date for the window. Changes since the tracker went live are dated to the day.

03Every Country's Advisory

All 217 advisories, with the date the State Department last issued each one and how long the country has been at its current level. Click a column heading to sort, or a country to see its history.

Downloads: every current advisory (CSV) · every recorded change since January 2018 (CSV). Free to reuse with a link to this page.

04How the Map Has Changed Since 2018

The number of countries and areas at each level at the end of every month since January 2018, reconstructed from the archived copies of the feed (where a change can only be dated to a window, it is counted from the end of that window). The Do Not Travel count peaked at 138 in March 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the State Department folded the CDC's health warnings into each country's level. In January 2018 it stood at 11; today it is 24.

For four and a half months in 2020 the State Department also had a single Global Level 4 Health Advisory telling Americans to avoid all international travel, from March 19 to August 6, 2020. It sat on top of the country advisories and is not counted here. Counts come from the advisories in force on the last day of each month.

The biggest single days

• April 20, 2021: 33 advisories raised in one day.

Only changes dated to the day are counted here.

05Look Up a Country

Pick a country or area to see its level over time and every change. The link in your address bar goes straight to that country, so you can share it.

06What the Levels Mean

The risks the advisories name most often

Each advisory opens by saying why it is set where it is: “due to crime, terrorism and kidnapping,” for example. Counting those opening sentences across all 217 advisories:

DaveManuel.com's own count of the words in each advisory's opening sentence, not a State Department classification. Many Level 1 advisories name no particular risk.

07How This Tracker Works

Every hour this page reads the State Department's public travel advisory feed, the same one behind travel.state.gov, and records each advisory's level and date. When a level changes, the change goes into the log in section 02 the same hour.

The history before the tracker went live comes from 427 archived copies of the State Department's advisory RSS feed saved by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine between January 2018 and the tracker's launch, one copy per day where there were several. Each copy is compared with the one before it. A change is dated to the day the State Department issued the advisory at its new level. Where the archived copies are far apart (often weeks or months before 2026), the date shown is the date of the first advisory seen at the new level, marked “by”, and a country that went up and back down again between two copies will not show. The four-level system began in January 2018, so there is no history before that.

Some advisories have been combined or split over the years. Before Gaza and the West Bank had advisories of their own, they were covered by the Israel advisory; their histories here start when they were first listed separately. The same goes for Hong Kong and Macau, once part of the China advisory, and for the Dutch Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.

08Frequently Asked Questions

09Sources

• U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs: Travel Advisories (the feed this page reads every hour)
• Internet Archive, Wayback Machine: archived copies of the State Department travel advisory feed
• U.S. Department of State: lifting of the Global Level 4 Health Advisory, August 6, 2020
• Bloomberg Law: CDC removes country COVID-19 travel health notices, October 2022
• What are travel advisories and how does the U.S. develop them? (U.S. Department of State, ShareAmerica, republished by The Good Men Project; review schedule by level)

Data: U.S. Department of State, read November 6, 2026 at 5:23 am UTC. History: Internet Archive. Travel advisories are guidance from the U.S. government for U.S. citizens; always read the full advisory before you travel. Related: Sanctions Tracker · Shipping Chokepoint Monitor · U.S. Military Bases Worldwide · How Far Your Dollar Goes Abroad.