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Plug types, voltage and frequency for the UK, UAE, Australia, Japan, China, Italy, South Africa and Argentina, and whether your Indian chargers will work.
Check if your chargers will work abroad. Pick a destination to see its plug types, voltage and frequency, and whether each of your devices needs an adapter or a converter. This page brings together 8 separate plug & voltage guide pages (Argentina, Australia, China, Italy, Japan, South Africa, UAE, UK) so you can compare them without hunting for the right one.
Open Plug & Voltage Guide on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Choose your country at the top: Argentina, Australia, China, Italy and 4 more. On a phone it is a drop-down list.
Fill in the plug & voltage guide for that country; each of the 8 options keeps its own rules, data and defaults.
Read the result, then switch country to compare. The page link keeps your country (?v=argentina), so you can bookmark or share it.
Argentina, Australia, China and the rest sit behind one picker, so switching country takes a tap instead of a new search.
Every country keeps its own rules, numbers and defaults rather than one generic template.
The link remembers the country you picked, so a bookmark or a shared link opens straight on it.
8: Argentina, Australia, China, Italy, Japan, South Africa, UAE, UK. Pick one at the top of the tool; the page link updates (for example ?v=argentina) so you can bookmark or share that exact view.
A type I adapter, the flat angled-pin IRAM 2073 shape. Argentina's official socket types are I and C, so a two-pin round Europlug also fits directly in the many combination outlets. US type A and B, UK type G and continental Schuko type F plugs all need an adapter.
A type I adapter, the AS/NZS 3112 flat angled-pin shape. Australian sockets have no round-pin provision at all, so a European Europlug, a UK type G plug and a US type A or B plug will all need an adapter. New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea use the same socket.
A type I adapter for mainland China — the flat angled-pin GB 2099 shape. Type A (two flat parallel pins) and type C (the two-pin round Europlug) also appear on the IEC's list for China, so US two-pin and European Europlug chargers often go straight into the combination wall socket. UK type G and Schuko type F plugs always need an adapter.
A type L adapter, or a Schuko type F adapter for newer rooms. Italy's official socket types are C, F and L, so a two-pin Europlug fits everywhere, while UK type G, US type A/B and Australian type I plugs all need an adapter. If you only carry one, choose a type L adapter, because a Schuko plug will not enter an older 10 A Italian socket but a type L plug fits the modern bipasso socket.
Japan uses 100 V, the lowest national mains voltage anywhere, with Type A sockets — two flat parallel blades — and less commonly Type B, which adds a round earth pin. Frequency is 50 Hz in eastern Japan and 60 Hz in the west. Most residential circuits are rated 15 A, giving a practical ceiling of about 1,500 W per socket.
One that offers both the large three-round-pin type M shape and the slimmer type N shape. Type M (SANS 164-1) is what most existing buildings have; type N (SANS 164-2) has been required at new outlet points since the 2018 wiring code, so newer hotels and apartments have both. US, UK, Australian and Schuko plugs fit neither without an adapter.
A type G adapter, the three rectangular-pin BS 1363 shape used across the UK and the Gulf. The IEC also lists type C and type D outlets for the UAE, but those are legacy fittings — the socket in almost every hotel room and modern building is type G, and its shutters will not open for a round-pin plug.
A type G adapter, the three rectangular-pin BS 1363 shape. UK sockets are shuttered and the shutters only open when the longer earth pin goes in first, so no US, European or Australian plug will enter one — a shape adapter is genuinely required, not optional.