Is Curitiba safe? 🇧🇷

Curitiba is a moderately safe city for travelers, but requires a high degree of caution due to elevated crime rates. While Curitiba scores well on health and environmental factors, its crime index and residents' feelings of safety, particularly at night, indicate a need for vigilance. Travelers should be aware of the risk of robbery and property crime. (Assessed 13 October 2026.)

Safety is not one number, and this Curitiba report does not pretend it is: the score is re-weighted for who is travelling. A woman travelling alone, a family with children and a solo backpacker face different street-level risks, so the headline score shifts and the report leads with the findings that matter for that group. Personalize this report in one click to see the 2026 score and safety briefing for your specific travellers.

Field research flags Cajuru as best avoided. See the district-by-district safety map.

• Distraction theft, where accomplices create a diversion while one person steals from a victim.
• Fake police stops, where individuals posing as officers demand money or identification.

Curitiba ranks #9 of 9 Brazil destinations we've assessed, scoring 57/100. See the Brazil safety overview for the full list.

The score blends 14+ public data sources — government advisories, UNODC/World Bank crime statistics, FBI crime data for U.S. cities, WHO health data, live air quality and disaster alerts — with AI field research over current local reporting. The databases carry the bulk of the weight; the traveller-sentiment score from field research carries the rest. Full methodology.