Data Study · 2026

The longest visa-free stays in the world

Most visa-free stamps give you 30–90 days. A handful of countries are far more generous. We ranked every destination in our database by the longest visa-free stay a traveller can get without applying for a visa in advance — verified against official immigration portals and dated. Visa-free allowances are nationality-specific, so always confirm the rule for your own passport before booking.

1 yearLongest stay — Georgia (#1)

106Destinations ranked

8Offer 180+ visa-free days

Rank	Destination	Max visa-free stay	Passports
#1	🇬🇪Georgia	1 year365 days	38/50
#2	🇵🇪Peru	183 days183 days	54/54
#3	🇲🇽Mexico	6 months180 days	58/60
#4	🇦🇲Armenia	6 months180 days	50/57
#5	🇵🇦Panama	6 months180 days	44/57
#6	🇬🇧United Kingdom	6 months180 days	14/14
#7	🇨🇦Canada	6 months180 days	3/3
#8	🇺🇸United States	6 months180 days	1/1
#9	🇫🇯Fiji	4 months120 days	38/55
#10	🇪🇨Ecuador	3 months90 days	90/90
#11	🇸🇬Singapore	3 months90 days	35/83
#12	🇿🇲Zambia	3 months90 days	75/75
#13	🇧🇼Botswana	3 months90 days	67/68
#14	🇸🇨Seychelles	3 months90 days	4/68
#15	🇯🇲Jamaica	3 months90 days	67/67
#16	🇷🇸Serbia	3 months90 days	59/67
#17	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	3 months90 days	21/66
#18	🇭🇰Hong Kong	3 months90 days	62/64
#19	🇲🇪Montenegro	3 months90 days	60/64
#20	🇵🇾Paraguay	3 months90 days	57/62
#21	🇦🇹Austria	3 months90 days	61/61
#22	🇪🇪Estonia	3 months90 days	61/61
#23	🇫🇮Finland	3 months90 days	61/61
#24	🇮🇸Iceland	3 months90 days	61/61
#25	🇱🇻Latvia	3 months90 days	61/61
#26	🇱🇹Lithuania	3 months90 days	61/61
#27	🇸🇰Slovakia	3 months90 days	61/61
#28	🇸🇮Slovenia	3 months90 days	61/61
#29	🇨🇭Switzerland	3 months90 days	61/61
#30	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	3 months90 days	18/61
#31	🇧🇬Bulgaria	3 months90 days	60/60
#32	🇭🇷Croatia	3 months90 days	60/60
#33	🇨🇿Czech Republic	3 months90 days	60/60
#34	🇫🇷France	3 months90 days	60/60
#35	🇩🇪Germany	3 months90 days	60/60
#36	🇭🇺Hungary	3 months90 days	60/60
#37	🇮🇹Italy	3 months90 days	60/60
#38	🇳🇱Netherlands	3 months90 days	60/60
#39	🇵🇹Portugal	3 months90 days	60/60
#40	🇷🇴Romania	3 months90 days	60/60
#41	🇪🇸Spain	3 months90 days	60/60
#42	🇧🇪Belgium	3 months90 days	59/59
#43	🇧🇷Brazil	3 months90 days	59/59
#44	🇩🇰Denmark	3 months90 days	59/59
#45	🇬🇷Greece	3 months90 days	59/59
#46	🇲🇹Malta	3 months90 days	59/59
#47	🇲🇺Mauritius	3 months90 days	58/59
#48	🇳🇴Norway	3 months90 days	59/59
#49	🇵🇱Poland	3 months90 days	59/59
#50	🇸🇪Sweden	3 months90 days	59/59
#51	🇦🇱Albania	3 months90 days	58/58
#52	🇨🇱Chile	3 months90 days	57/57
#53	🇨🇴Colombia	3 months90 days	56/56
#54	🇹🇳Tunisia	3 months90 days	56/56
#55	🇺🇾Uruguay	3 months90 days	56/56
#56	🇱🇮Liechtenstein	3 months90 days	55/55
#57	🇱🇺Luxembourg	3 months90 days	55/55
#58	🇹🇷Turkey	3 months90 days	55/55
#59	🇪🇺Schengen Area	3 months90 days	54/54
#60	🇨🇷Costa Rica	3 months90 days	53/53
#61	🇿🇦South Africa	3 months90 days	51/53
#62	🇮🇱Israel	3 months90 days	52/52
#63	🇨🇾Cyprus	3 months90 days	51/51
#64	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	3 months90 days	13/51
#65	🇦🇷Argentina	3 months90 days	49/49
#66	🇲🇦Morocco	3 months90 days	48/48
#67	🇯🇵Japan	3 months90 days	46/46
#68	🇧🇴Bolivia	3 months90 days	7/43
#69	🇰🇷South Korea	3 months90 days	43/43
#70	🇲🇾Malaysia	3 months90 days	39/42
#71	🇶🇦Qatar	3 months90 days	39/42
#72	🇵🇭Philippines	3 months90 days	24/41
#73	🇦🇪United Arab Emirates	3 months90 days	38/41
#74	🇻🇳Vietnam	3 months90 days	5/32
#75	🇹🇼Taiwan	3 months90 days	29/29
#76	🇬🇭Ghana	3 months90 days	6/25
#77	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	3 months90 days	13/21
#78	🇮🇪Ireland	3 months90 days	19/19
#79	🇷🇺Russia	3 months90 days	17/19
#80	🇷🇼Rwanda	3 months90 days	19/19
#81	🇺🇬Uganda	3 months90 days	18/18
#82	🇸🇻El Salvador	3 months90 days	16/16
#83	🇰🇼Kuwait	3 months90 days	13/13
#84	🇳🇿New Zealand	3 months90 days	13/13
#85	🇱🇦Laos	3 months90 days	4/12
#86	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	3 months90 days	7/12
#87	🇨🇳China	3 months90 days	6/10
#88	🇴🇲Oman	3 months90 days	10/10
#89	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	3 months90 days	8/9
#90	🇰🇪Kenya	3 months90 days	9/9
#91	🇳🇦Namibia	3 months90 days	8/8
#92	🇹🇿Tanzania	3 months90 days	6/6
#93	🇰🇭Cambodia	3 months90 days	5/5
#94	🇨🇺Cuba	3 months90 days	4/5
#95	🇮🇳India	3 months90 days	3/3
#96	🇮🇩Indonesia	3 months90 days	3/3
#97	🇯🇴Jordan	3 months90 days	2/2
#98	🇳🇬Nigeria	3 months90 days	2/2
#99	🇧🇹Bhutan	3 months90 days	1/1
#100	🇪🇹Ethiopia	3 months90 days	1/1
#101	🇳🇵Nepal	3 months90 days	1/1
#102	🇵🇰Pakistan	3 months90 days	1/1
#103	🇹🇭Thailand	2 months60 days	57/57
#104	🇲🇻Maldives	1 month30 days	74/74
#105	🇪🇬Egypt	1 month30 days	3/3
#106	🇱🇰Sri Lanka	1 month30 days	1/1

How we built this ranking

What we measure. The longest single visa-free stay a traveller can get on entry — not e-visas, not visa-on-arrival, and not a visa you apply for in advance. Only entries where no visa is required at all are counted.
It depends on your passport. The headline figure is the maximum any nationality in our database receives. The “Passports” column shows how many nationalities get that full stay versus how many have any visa-free access — Georgia’s 365 days, for example, applies to most but not all passports.
Schengen is a shared pool. Each Schengen country shows up to 90 days, but that allowance is 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole Schengen area, counted on a rolling basis — not 90 days per country.
What we exclude. Electronic travel authorisations that are technically visas — such as Australia’s ETA / eVisitor and Visitor (subclass 600) — are not counted as visa-free, even where the authorisation is valid for up to a year, because each is an applied-for permit rather than visa-free entry.

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Visa Search by Altoglobe. (2026). Longest Visa-Free Stays in the World (2026). Retrieved from https://www.thevisasearch.com/longest-visa-free-stays

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Sources & verification. Stay lengths are drawn from the Visa Search database, where every rule is verified against the highest available authority — the destination government’s immigration or foreign-ministry portal, then official e-visa portals and reputable visa-policy references. Only active, verified visa-free rules are ranked. Data last reviewed June 2026. See our Editorial & Data Standards for our full sourcing and correction process, or explore the Passport Power Index to rank passports by how many destinations they unlock. Spot an error? Tell us and we’ll review it.