Beninese Visa is not required for Algerians
Stay Duration: 90 days
Entry Requirements
- Algerians intending to visit Benin do not require a visa.
- Algerian travelers must have a return/onward ticket.
- Visitors from Algeria can stay in Benin for a maximum total of 90 days within a one-year period.
- Algerians intending to visit Benin must provide a passport with at least six months of validity and blank pages for stamps on arrival and departure.
- A proof of hotel accommodation is also needed, as well as an international certificate of yellow fever vaccination.
- Photography near sensitive or government sites, like military installations or the airport, is strictly prohibited.
- Contonou has no public transportation system; many Beninese people rely on bicycles, mopeds, motorbikes, and zemidjans (moped taxis).
- The air distance from Algiers, Algeria to Porto Novo, Benin is 2084.6 Miles.
- The flight duration time from Algiers to Porto Novo is 4 hrs, 19 mins.
- Travelers who use or traffick in illegal drugs would be penalized with lengthy prison sentences and heavy fines.
- The standard voltage in Benin is 220 V and the frequency is 50 Hz. Visitors with devices between the range of 100 V – 127 V will need a voltage converter . Or a combined power plug adapter/voltage converter.
- You are required to have a travel health insurance and accessible funds to cover the cost of any medical treatment in Benin.
- The weather is hot in Benin from November to January, it is usually between 35 °C (95 °F), while from February to May, the temperature increases often reaching 40 °C (104 °F).
- Cash is mostly used in Benin, so credit cards are not widely accepted. However, there are some ATMs, dispensing local currency (West African CFA).
- Pick-pocketing occurs in areas visited by international travellers (hotels, ports, railways, beaches, bars and restaurants). Visitors are warned to avoid Dantokpa market after dark.
- Tourists are allowed to import 200 cigarettes or 100 cigarillos or 25 cigars or 250 grams of tobacco, 1 bottle of wine and 1 bottle of spirits, and 1/2 liter of eau de toilette and 1/4 liter of perfume.
- Travelers with cats and dogs are expected to provide a veterinarian health certificate and rabies vaccination certificate at their arrival into Benin.
- Foreigners with currencies up to the equivalent of XOF 100,000 are to declare it point of entry.