Bureau of Consular Affairs

Travel Advisories API

The State Department publishes travel advisory levels (Level 1-4) for every country. The machine-readable surface is an ArcGIS Online Feature Service on the bureau's own Esri tenant (R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs): one polygon per country carrying LEVEL_ (1-4), the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, the advisory date and the URL of the human advisory page. Anonymous, no key, capabilities Query, maxRecordCount 2000. A dated RSS feed of the same advisories is published at travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml (216 items observed 2026-09-05) and is the only change signal the bureau offers. baseURL was https://travel.state.gov, the website root, which named no API host; corrected 2026-09-05 to the Feature Service that actually answers.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/

Other Resources

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ArcGIS
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-consular-affairs/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-layer.json
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ArcGIS
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-consular-affairs/refs/heads/main/openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-featureserver.json
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RSS
https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
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Application
https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/
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AgentSkill
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bureau-of-consular-affairs/refs/heads/main/skills/bureau-of-consular-affairs-check-travel-advisory.md

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bureau-of-consular-affairs:travel-advisories
name: Travel Advisories API
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Travel
- Travel Advisories
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Travel
- Travel Advisories
humanURL: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
baseURL: https://services6.arcgis.com/R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs/arcgis/rest/services/Travel_Advisory_Levels__(2024)_View_Layer/FeatureServer
properties:
- url: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/
  type: Documentation
- url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-layer.json
  type: ArcGIS
- url: openapi/bureau-of-consular-affairs-arcgis-travel-advisory-levels-featureserver.json
  type: ArcGIS
- url: https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml
  type: RSS
- url: https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/
  type: Application
- url: skills/bureau-of-consular-affairs-check-travel-advisory.md
  type: AgentSkill
description: 'The State Department publishes travel advisory levels (Level 1-4) for every country. The
  machine-readable surface is an ArcGIS Online Feature Service on the bureau''s own Esri tenant (R6wlO6UHmSzqm9Vs):
  one polygon per country carrying LEVEL_ (1-4), the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, the advisory date and the
  URL of the human advisory page. Anonymous, no key, capabilities Query, maxRecordCount 2000. A dated
  RSS feed of the same advisories is published at travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml (216 items observed
  2026-09-05) and is the only change signal the bureau offers. baseURL was https://travel.state.gov, the
  website root, which named no API host; corrected 2026-09-05 to the Feature Service that actually answers.'