Antarctica
Antarctic
Antarctica is the coldest and driest place on Earth, and surrounds the South Pole. Tourist visits are costly, demand physical fitness, can only take place in summer, and are largely limited to the Peninsula, Islands and Ross Sea. A couple of thousand staff live here in summer in some four dozen bases mostly in those areas; a small number stay over winter. Inland Antarctica is a desolate plateau covered by 2–3 kilometres (1.2–1.9 mi) of ice. Occasional specialist air tours go inland, for mountaineering or to reach the Pole, which has a large base. Wildlife needs access to the sea and is confined to the coasts.
Guide content adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Antarctica". Source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Weather
Live-58°C
Overcast · feels like -64°C
- 62%
- 16 km/h
- AQI 16
- MonOvercast-62° / -59°
- TueOvercast-62° / -58°
- WedOvercast-60° / -57°
- ThuOvercast-62° / -57°
Measured at the country centroid, not a specific city.
Money
No exchange rate published for this currency.
What a trip to Antarctica costs
Visas, flights, beds, food and everything in between, priced for your party and your dates. Every line shows its own arithmetic, so you can disagree with the parts you know better than we do.
Your trip
8 days on the ground
Estimated cost
$3,791
$1,895 per person · $237 per person per day
- $100
Visa & entry
$50 × 2 — typical tourist visa or eVisa fee
- $2,196
Flights
$1,098 return × 2 · 16,012 km
- $479
Accommodation
$68/night × 7 nights × 1 room · Standard
- $320
Food & drink
$20/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $128
Local transport
$8/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $20
SIM & internet
$10 per person, once × 2
- $224
Attractions
$14/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $43
Travel insurance
$3/person/day × 8 days × 2
- Subtotal
- $3,510
- Miscellaneous (8%)
- $281
- Total
- $3,791
Budget at a glance
Per day
$474
Per person
$1,895
Family of 4
$7,582
7 days
$3,791
14 days
$4,984
30 days
$7,711
The 7, 14 and 30-day figures re-price the whole trip at that length — flights and visas do not repeat, so a month is far from four times a week.
A planning estimate, not a quote — ground costs are modelled from a cost tier for Antarctica, not scraped from live inventory. Your settings are saved to this device.