Port Louis
MauritiusAw
📷 Arne Müseler· CC BY-SA 3.0 de"Mon péi, mon Lorè" | "My country, my Lorè (treasure)" (in Mauritian Creole)
About
Port Louis is the capital and most populous city of Mauritius, mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's financial and political centre. It is administered by the Municipal City Council of Port Louis. According to the 2018 census conducted by Statistics Mauritius, the population was 147,066.
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The next week in Port Louis
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Drizzle
29° / 22°
1.0 mm
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
29° / 23°
UV High
Sun
Drizzle
28° / 22°
2.3 mm
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
29° / 22°
UV High
Tue
Drizzle
29° / 24°
3.0 mm
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
29° / 23°
4.2 mm
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
28° / 21°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.2h
06:30 – 17:41local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Port Louis
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU) at 36 km.
Getting around Port Louis
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
CC BY-SA 3.0, Yashveer Poonit.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.