What vaccinations do I need for Lithuania?

None is required for entry. Recommended for a normal tourist trip: Tick-borne encephalitis for forest walks from spring to autumn; Routine vaccinations up to date. See a travel clinic six to eight weeks before you go.

Lithuania travel tips

Lithuania travel health

Q: What is the emergency number in Lithuania?

112. EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment. Good in Vilnius and Kaunas, with private clinics that speak English; adequate elsewhere; the state system works with an EHIC.

Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Lithuania, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Curonian Spit, Trakai.

Required to enter

Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.

Emergency number

112

Care for visitors

Good and affordable

EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment. Good in Vilnius and Kaunas, with private clinics that speak English; adequate elsewhere; the state system works with an EHIC.

Ticks in the forest and the long grass from spring to autumn, and the encephalitis is common enough here that the vaccine is worth it for the spit and the lakes. Ice on the cobbles in winter. The sea side of the spit has rips.

The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.

The guides in Lithuania

Vilnius from the river, the old town spires and the new towers beyond

VilniusLithuaniaA baroque old town on a scale no one expects, a self-declared republic of artists across the river, and a hot-air balloon over it all on a summer evening

The Vytis horseman statue in front of Kaunas castle

KaunasLithuaniaThe interwar capital, a whole city of modernism between two rivers, with a castle, a funicular, a devil museum and a basketball obsession

Waves breaking on the Baltic shore near Klaipėda, from above

KlaipėdaLithuaniaThe port that was Memel: a German old town of timber warehouses, the ferry to the Curonian Spit, and the country’s only sea

The Parnidis dune at Nida from the air, sand between the lagoon and the forest

Curonian SpitLithuaniaA ninety-kilometre sandbar between the sea and a lagoon, with dunes the height of a cathedral, a fishing village of painted wooden houses and Thomas Mann’s summer house

Trakai island castle across the lake with a boat in front

TrakaiLithuaniaA red-brick castle on an island in a lake, a Karaim community that has been here six hundred years and bakes the country’s favourite pastry, and Vilnius half an hour away