Schengen 90/180 Day Calculator

Add your trips and see exactly how many of your 90 days are left, when your allowance comes back, and whether the trip you are planning breaks the rule.

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Change this date to see where you will stand on any future day.

Your trips

Entry and exit days both count as full days. Add every trip in the last 180 days, plus any you have booked.

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Plan your next trip

Pick an entry date to see the longest stay you could legally take. Add an exit date to test a specific trip.

Pick an entry date to see the longest trip you could legally take.

Your rolling 180-day window

Every point shows how many days you had used in the 180 days ending on that date. Drag across the chart, or use the arrow keys.

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The 90/180 rule is the single most misunderstood number in European travel. Not because it is complicated, but because almost everyone assumes it works like a calendar year when it works like a moving 180-day window. The calculator above does the arithmetic for you. This is what it is doing, and why the answer is often lower than travellers expect.

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How the 90/180 rule works

If you are visa-exempt or travelling on a short-stay Schengen visa, you may spend 90 days in the Schengen area within any 180-day period. The phrase that does the work is any. There is no start date and no anniversary. Border officers pick a date, look back 179 days from it, add up every day you were inside, and check the total against 90.

That window moves with you. Tomorrow it shifts one day forward, and the day you spent in Lisbon exactly 180 days ago drops out of the count and comes back to you. Your allowance never refills in one go. It trickles back a day at a time, which is why counting by hand goes wrong.

What counts as a day

Both travel days count in full. Land at 11pm on the 3rd and leave at 6am on the 10th and you have used eight days, not six and not seven. Partial days do not exist for this purpose.

Crossing from France into Germany is an internal movement and changes nothing. Flying from Madrid to Marrakesh does break the stay, because Morocco sits outside the external border.

Which countries count in 2026

Twenty-nine countries are in the Schengen area: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Bulgaria and Romania became full members on 1 January 2025, so days spent there now count against the same 90.

Ireland and Cyprus are in the European Union but not in Schengen, so days there do not touch your allowance. Neither do days in the United Kingdom, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey or Ukraine. Travellers stretching a trip past 90 days build itineraries around exactly this list. Tag a trip with a non-Schengen country and the calculator shows those days without counting them.

How to use this calculator

  1. Add every trip from the last six months. Anything older has already dropped out of the window. Passport stamps and boarding passes will settle any dates you are unsure of.
  2. Add the trips you have already booked. Future trips are marked as planned and checked against the rule, so an optimistic booking gets flagged before you pack for it.
  3. Use the planner for the trip you are still thinking about. Enter the date you want to arrive and it returns the longest stay that keeps you legal, along with the last date you could leave on.

Your trips are saved in your own browser, so the tool remembers them next time, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The share button turns them into a link, which is the quickest way to move them to your phone or send them to whoever books the flights.

The mistake that gets people stopped

The common error is believing the clock resets when you leave. Leaving stops you accumulating new days, and that is all it does. Spend 85 days in Italy, fly home for two weeks, then return for a month and you have not started fresh. The window still holds most of that first trip, and the total lands well past the limit.

The corollary surprises people in the other direction. Spend a full 90 days, leave, and you can legally return 180 days after your first entry, not 180 days after your exit. At that point the days start expiring at the same rate you spend new ones, so a second 90-day stay is possible immediately. That is a real result of the rule rather than a loophole, and it is one of the cases where simpler calculators give the wrong answer.

What happens if you overstay

Consequences scale with the overstay and vary by country. A day or two usually produces a warning and a note on your record. Longer overstays bring fines, a removal decision and an entry ban that typically runs one to five years across the whole Schengen area, logged in the Schengen Information System where every member state sees it. Germany and the Netherlands enforce strictly. Spain and Greece have a reputation for leniency that is not worth relying on, because the record follows you regardless of who waves you through.

An overstay complicates future applications, including visas for countries with no connection to Europe. If the calculator shows you over, change the plan.

EES and ETIAS: the end of manual counting

The Entry/Exit System began its phased rollout in October 2025. It records every entry and exit biometrically and replaces the passport stamp, so the 90/180 calculation now happens automatically at the border. The era of a smudged stamp and a sympathetic officer is over.

ETIAS, a pre-travel authorisation for visa-exempt visitors, follows once EES is fully live. Its start date has moved several times, so confirm the current one on the official EU site before you book. Neither system changes the rule. They change how reliably it is enforced, which makes knowing your own number before you reach the desk matter more than it used to.

Frequently asked questions

How long can I stay in Europe without a visa?

Ninety days within any rolling 180-day period, across the Schengen area as a whole. Countries outside Schengen set their own limits, so time in Ireland, the UK or the Balkans runs on a separate counter.

Do the day I arrive and the day I leave both count?

Yes. Both are full days no matter what time your flight lands or departs.

Does the 90-day allowance reset when I leave the Schengen area?

No. Days expire individually, exactly 180 days after each one was used. Leaving only stops the count going up.

Do days in Ireland or Cyprus count towards the 90?

No. Both are EU members outside the Schengen area, and each runs its own separate allowance for visitors.

Can I stay in Europe longer than 90 days?

Yes, with a national long-stay visa or a residence permit. Days spent on that permit do not count against your 90/180 allowance in the issuing country. Several countries offer digital nomad and retirement visas built for this.

What is the earliest I can go back after using all 90 days?

It depends how your days were spread. Used all 90 in one block and you can return 180 days after your first entry. Scattered across several trips, the date is later and harder to guess. The calculator gives you the exact day.

What happens if I overstay by a few days?

Usually a fine or a warning, but it is recorded, and with EES in place that happens automatically. It can affect future entries and visa applications anywhere, not only in Europe.

Does this calculator store my travel dates?

Your trips are saved in your own browser so they are there when you come back. They are never sent to a server. Clearing them removes them completely.

This calculator gives an estimate based on the dates you enter. It is not immigration advice. Border authorities make the final decision, and if your situation involves a residence permit, a long-stay visa or a past overstay, check with the relevant consulate.