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Driving in Belize
The rules of the road as our desk recorded them, native unit first.
Right
25 / 55 / 55 mph · 40 / 89 / 89 km/h
urban / rural / motorway
Not required
A home-country licence is accepted for visits up to 3 months; carry it with your passport. An IDP helps only as a translation if your licence has no Latin script.
0.08 % - enforced with checkpoints around holidays
No toll roads. The hand-cranked river ferries on back roads (e.g. to Xunantunich) are free.
Required after dark and in rain; no daytime running requirement for cars.
No strictly enforced child-restraint law - bring your own seat or reserve one ahead; rental agencies stock a few.
Belize posts speeds in mph - the only country on the isthmus that does. There are no motorways; 55 mph is the open-highway maximum. Unsigned speed bumps ("sleeping policemen") guard every village: hit one at speed and the rental deposit is gone.