This information may change. Always check the official source.Last verified: August 2026 by Ondřej Kadlec
Sockets and voltage in Cuba
Type ANEMA 1-15No earth
Type BNEMA 5-15Earthed
Type CCEE 7/16 (Europlug)No earth
Type LCEI 23-50Earthed
Voltage
110 V
Frequency
60 Hz
Earthed sockets
Type B, Type L
110 V is the norm; some newer hotels also fit 220 V sockets for European plugs.
What you need, by where you are coming from
Arriving from the United States or CanadaPlugs go straight in and the voltage matches. Nothing to pack.
Arriving from the UK or IrelandA plug adapter, and appliances marked 100-240 V. Anything single-voltage needs a converter.
Arriving from most of continental EuropeThe plug fits, and the voltage does not: anything not marked 100-240 V needs a converter, not an adapter.
Arriving from Australia or New ZealandA plug adapter, and appliances marked 100-240 V. Anything single-voltage needs a converter.
Socket types, voltage and frequency are the nominal domestic supply as published in IEC/TR 60083 and the national standards it lists.
Cuban sockets are mostly American Type and at 110 V, with 220 V European outlets in newer hotels.
Sockets in Cuba are Type , , and at 110 V, 60 Hz - the American standard, with a few European and Italian outlets in the tourist sector.
Newer hotels also fit 220 V sockets for European plugs, sometimes in the same room as the 110 V ones. Read the label beside the socket before plugging anything in; the shapes do not tell you the voltage.
American plugs fit the ordinary sockets, and a Europlug fits the round-pin ones where they exist.
110 V means European 230 V-only appliances will not work on the standard sockets even with an adapter.
Casas particulares run on the domestic 110 V supply, usually unearthed.
Bring what you need with you. Adapters, batteries and chargers are hard to buy locally, unlike almost everywhere else in the region.
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