Guinea-Bissau Guinea
Guinea-Bissau 
GuineaLast reviewed July 2026
Crossing the border
Guinea-Bissau and Guinea share a land border you can cross by car. Keep your passport, national driving licence and International Driving Permit together, and check opening hours and any toll or vignette requirements before you travel.
Driving rules in Guinea
- Drive on the right.
- Poor roads outside the capital.
- 0.05% alcohol limit.
- Carry passport, IDP and home licence.
Once you're driving in Guinea
Destination-specific detail sourced from national road authorities, motoring clubs and rental policies — the things that catch cross-border drivers out.
Driving on a foreign licence
An International Driving Permit paired with your home-country licence is strongly expected; traffic police and rental firms routinely ask for both, and driving on a foreign licence alone risks fines or trouble at checkpoints even where technically tolerated.
Tolls & road charges
Guinea has no established toll-road or vignette system for tourists; main routes out of Conakry are used without tolls, though some bridges and barriers may attract informal charges.
Parking in the cities
Parking in Conakry is informal and on-street, typically watched by attendants expecting a small Guinean-franc tip; there are no colour-coded paid zones, and the city's congested, potholed streets mean obstruction near markets risks your car being blocked in.
Fines & camera enforcement
Foreign drivers are frequently targeted at document checkpoints; expect on-the-spot cash fines for speeding, seatbelt or phone offences and requests for informal payments, with rental firms recovering any unpaid penalties from your deposit.
If you have an accident
Drive on the right; call the police on 117 (or gendarmerie 118/122), do not move vehicles after an injury crash and wait for police to file a report needed for any claim; beware of people posing as officials soliciting informal payments.
Driving in the capital
Conakry sits on a long narrow peninsula, so nearly all traffic funnels onto the single Route Le Prince / Autoroute corridor, producing severe daily gridlock, and military or police roadblocks are common in the city between 10pm and 6am.
Sources: internationaldrivingauthority.com · tyremap.com · driverabroad.com · internationaldriversassociation.com