Portugal travel tips

Portugal travel health

Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Portugal, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Portugal: Lisbon, Porto, Sintra, Algarve, Madeira, Azores and 1 more.

Required to enter

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

Recommended

  • Routine vaccinations up to date

Emergency number

112

Care for visitors

Excellent and cheap

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.

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

The guides in Portugal

yellow and white tram on road during daytimeLisbonPortugalHills, tiles, and pastéis de nataboats docked near seaside promenade]PortoPortugalPort wine, tiled facades, and a river worth staring atgray and yellow castle at the top of a hillSintraPortugalPalaces in a misty hill forest above Lisbon, one of them painted like a fairgroundOchre sandstone stacks and arches above clear water at Ponta da Piedade in the AlgarveAlgarvePortugalOchre cliffs, hidden coves and three hundred days of sun at the bottom of Europegreen and yellow boat on body of water during daytimeMadeiraPortugalA volcanic wall in the Atlantic, laced with irrigation channels you can walk for daysempty road beside green trees and blue body of water during daytimeAzoresPortugalNine green volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic, with crater lakes and whales offshorea large body of water surrounded by a lush green hillsideDouro ValleyPortugalTerraced vineyards falling into a river gorge, worked by hand since before port had a name