Is Ostrava safe for solo female travelers?

Couple travel

during my trip to the "colours of ostrava" festival, me (f) and my partner (f) have experienced multiple rude and scary encounters with local czech people. as a woman, you are specifically subjected to random acts of verbal aggression. while this goes for all places in the world, i felt that the czech republic was especially bad. we were generally safe while using public transport at night. due to the festival, the time tables for public transport changed and we got lost on a tram one night - with limited access to proper translations, it was hard to find our way back to the hotel. the locals came across as unhelpful and generally happy to be left alone.

It's a pretty safe city if you avoid certain parts and troubled neighborhoods. It is generally safe to walk alone after dark, it's just better to mind your own business and be aware of your surroundings.

I live here my whole life and nothing happened to me. For me is my city and also country very safe. You can sometimes met some homeless or little bit drunk people but it's especially at night and they are not harmful. Just don't talk to them.

If you don't have some specific activity or thing you want to do there, I'd recommend not visiting Ostrava. It's not particularly interesting to tourists, and the overall safety is not worth it. Men can shout at you in the streets, and people in general are not really friendly.

Well, Ostrava people rate the safety here very low. However, I think its getting better and better, you just have to be careful as in any other big city. For example Přívoz or Dubina are a little bit more dangerous, so as a tourist I wouldn’t go there. On the other hand most of the city centre or Poruba are really nice

Hi! I’ve been living in Ostrava my whole life and I would rate the overall safety a good 7,5/10. When walking outside during the day I’m not at all worried about any serious danger. You might get cat-called however it doesn’t happen often. You may encounter some weird people but all you have to do is ignore them. During the night I’m also not worried but there’s no harm in keeping your guard a little up. Overall i feel very safe in Ostrava as a woman.