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If you are a person of colour, the question you ask before booking is not whether a country is peaceful. It is whether you will be comfortable once you are there. This is every country on earth, sorted by how travellers of colour are actually treated, with the evidence attached and the gaps marked.
Twenty entries are researched in depth with sources you can check. The rest are outlines, and each entry says which one you are reading.
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The index
Every country, grouped by region, with what is known about how travellers of colour are treated there. Search it, filter by category, or open any entry to see where the evidence came from.
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Method, and its limits
Every country here is sorted by how travellers of colour are treated. This page sets out how much weight each category can carry, and where it runs out.
Every country carries a category. Twenty carry a researched entry with sources attached to the claims. The other 189 carry an outline: a category and a short note, assigned from general knowledge and public reporting, with no country by country research and no independent fact check.
The entry tells you which of the two you are reading, in the entry itself rather than in a footnote. An outline is a starting point for your own reading. Treat it as one.
A society where a visitor of colour is demographically unremarkable, with a comparatively low crime rate and no widespread pattern of reported hostility.
Generally safe, with no widely reported pattern of hostility toward travellers of colour. Note that this is an absence of evidence, not positive evidence of welcome.
Worth going, but it needs planning. Crime, instability or documented discrimination are significant enough to read the current advisory closely first.
Armed conflict or comparable danger, where governments advise against travel to all or most of the country. This one is about general safety and says nothing specific about travellers of colour.
The assignment is rule based, not freehand
A country is placed in Avoid for now if it has active armed conflict or widespread advisories against travel. It goes to Go prepared if it has high violent crime, significant instability, or documented discrimination serious enough to change how you would plan a trip. It is raised to Welcoming if a visitor of colour is demographically unremarkable there and the crime and legal climate are comparatively good. Everything else defaults to Mostly fine.
The default matters
Most countries sit in the middle two categories because that is where the evidence leaves them, not because they have been assessed in detail. A middling category is a statement about the state of the reporting as much as about the place.
Peaceful and unprejudiced are different measurements
Portugal is top ten on the Global Peace Index and records some of the highest rates of racial profiling in the EU. Both facts sit on the same entry, because dropping either one would mislead you.
It cannot speak for everyone
Racism is uneven by city, by neighbourhood, by hour, and by which minority you belong to. What is unremarkable for a South Asian traveller may be exhausting for a Black one in the same city. Where the sources distinguish between groups, so do the entries.
There are no per country claims about the legal status of same sex relationships. Those laws change, getting one wrong could put somebody in danger, and this dataset is not researched closely enough to carry them. Check ILGA World and your government's advisory instead.
Why this exists
Written because the answer usually sits in a group chat rather than in a guidebook.
Guides rank countries by cost and by crime rate. Useful, up to a point. But if you are a person of colour deciding where to go, you are holding a different question, and it is a heavier one. Will I be comfortable there? Will I be stared at, stopped, followed, refused? Or will I be able to relax, eat well, meet people and simply be a person on holiday?
That question rarely gets a straight answer, so people ask each other instead. In group chats, in forums, in replies to a friend saying they are thinking of going. This is an attempt to write some of that down in one place, with the sources attached.
This is not a fear index. Most of the world is safe to travel in, and a holiday is supposed to be a holiday. A good share of this atlas is about the opposite: places where being a person of colour is unremarkable, where the food and the music and the streets are the reason to go, and where you will not spend the week braced for something.
Where the news is bad it says so plainly and shows where that came from. Where the evidence is thin it says that too, rather than dressing a guess up as research. Twenty countries have been read properly. The rest are outlines, and they are labelled as outlines.
There is no score. A single number would flatten the thing that matters, because it is different in one city than the next, different at night, and different depending on which of us is asking.
Sources and provenance
Where the material on the treatment of travellers of colour comes from, and how far it has been checked.
- FCDO foreign travel advice Linked from every entry. The links were generated and then checked with real requests: 194 of 209 resolve to a country page, and the remainder have no FCDO page and fall back to the index.
- EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Being Black in the EU (2023) The source for the discrimination and police stop findings on the European entries.
- Institute for Economics and Peace, Global Peace Index Shown as a band rather than an exact rank, because exact positions move every year and a stale precise number is worse than an honest range.
- Natural Earth Country outlines, public domain. Borders come from a public dataset and are not a statement about any disputed territory.
- NASA Visible Earth The globe surface imagery, lightened at runtime so the categories stay readable over it.
- National human rights bodies and embassy security alerts Cited individually on the researched entries, including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ireland's IHREC, New Zealand's Human Rights Commission and the US Embassy in Tokyo.
Compiled September 2026. This is an editorial summary of public sources, not travel, legal or safety advice, and it has not been independently fact checked. Index positions, advisories and laws change, sometimes quickly. Always read your government's current advisory, linked on every entry, before you book or fly. If a category looks wrong to you, or an entry reads as unfair to a place you know well, that is worth fixing: see contact.