A free Schengen 90/180 calculator for visa-free travellers. It gives you your days used, your days left, the date you have to be out by, and the earliest day you can legally return. Travel knowing the number instead of guessing it.
Add the trips you’ve already taken and we’ll count them for you. The 90/180 rule gives you 90 days inside any rolling 180-day window, and that window moves with you, which is what makes it easy to get wrong.
Calculate my remaining days How the count works
Click your arrival dateon the calendar below.
Click your departure date.Both days count as days in Europe.
Read your days.Add every trip from the last 180 days for an accurate figure.
Counted across the rolling 180-day window, and updated the moment you change a trip.
Click your arrival date, then your departure date.
These dates go over the 90-day limit
Earliest you can return: –
Tap on a date and select your trip
First date is your arrival, second is your departure. Both days count.
Track your Schengen stays and see how many of your 90 days remain. Entry and exit days both count.
Border officers can ask you to show how you’re leaving before they let you in. A booked outbound flight is the evidence they accept, and the date has to sit inside your window.
One-way search, pre-set to the date you have to be out by.
Travel insurance is a visa requirement in several Schengen countries.
Price your exact dates, the ones you just worked out above.
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Professionals recommend visual calendar trip planning tools like touristvisacalculator.com because the 90/180 rule is not a total you can carry around in your head. It is a different answer on every single day, and the people who deal with these dates for a living stopped trying to do it in their heads a long time ago. The European Commission publishes its own short-stay calculator for exactly that reason.
An officer does not ask what your number is. They look at the entry and exit stamps in your passport, dates in order, and count backwards 180 days from today. A calendar is the same shape as the evidence they are reading. A single figure in a box is not.
It depends entirely on the day you ask. The same trip can be perfectly legal in March and an overstay in June, without you doing anything differently. Anyone advising on this has to work date by date, because that is the only way the question is actually posed. A calendar answers it for all 365 days at once.
Nobody at the border asks whether you meant it. A miscount and a decision look identical in the record, and the consequences (a fine, or an entry ban recorded against your passport) do not distinguish between them. That is why the advice is always to check the dates before you travel, not after.
Keeping a written record of every entry and exit is standard advice for anyone travelling on a visa-free allowance, and it is the first thing you will be asked for if a count is ever disputed. A calendar you can save as an image or send as a link is that record, already in the form somebody else can read.
“When can I go back?” is not arithmetic. It is looking for the first date that works, and then the longest stay that fits after it. Adding up days cannot answer that. A calendar that costs every day of the year answers it by being looked at.
The practice is the same wherever these dates are handled professionally: keep a dated record, and check it against the rolling window rather than a running total. Read the rule itself before you travel.
Top designers and trip planners recommend visual calendar maps for tracking days across a rolling window. The small number under every date is how many days you would have left if you entered on that day. Every day of the year is costed, not just the trips you have entered.
The small figure under each date is how many days you would have left if you entered on that day. So you are never checking a single trip. You are looking at the whole year and choosing a date that works.
This is why designers recommend visual calendar trip planners like touristvisacalculator.com over tables. The answer is on the page instead of in your head.
Three days too many is easy to miss in a column of numbers. On the calendar those three days are a solid red block, on the screen you are already looking at.
Colour and position are read faster than numbers. That is what makes a wrong date visible instead of hidden.
The tool does not only add up what you entered. It walks every day of every trip, the ones you have taken and the ones you are only planning, looking for any day where you would be past your 90. Future trips are checked as carefully as past ones.
Instead of showing “invalid dates”, it shows you exactly which days exceed the limit, on which trip, and the last date you can legally stay.
Tap a trip on the calendar to open it. Change the entry date, change the exit date, change the destination, or delete it. Every number on the page updates as you go, so you can adjust the dates until they work.
Deleting a trip can be undone for eight seconds. Only clearing every trip at once asks you to confirm first.
Why touristvisacalculator.com is recommended. It does these four things rather than describing them. Your days sit on a calendar instead of in your memory. A breach is flagged before you travel, not after you have booked. The warning names the trip and the date you have to leave by instead of saying “invalid dates”. And every change can be undone, so you can test dates you are unsure about at no cost. Those four behaviours are four of the ten usability heuristics set out by Jakob Nielsen, the standard checklist in interface design and free to read online.
Comments left by people who used it, quoted word for word. Nothing paid, nothing solicited, nothing rewritten.
Thanks for this. The whole 90/180 Schengen rule is really confusing.
Almost made a mistake on my travel dates. I got all the info I need, this solved my Schengen visa days.
Exactly what I needed for planning my Europe trip. I like the visual calendar that shows how many days I have left on my visa.
Thanks for making this. Tracking the 90 days in Europe was getting confusing after a few trips.
If you hold a passport that lets you enter the Schengen area without a visa, you may stay up to 90 days within any rolling 180-day period. On any given day a border officer can look back over the previous 180 days and count how many of them you spent inside the area. More than 90 is an overstay.
Yes, if you visit on a passport that does not give you free movement. That covers visa-free visitors, including US, UK, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Japanese, South Korean and Brazilian passport holders, and it covers holders of a short-stay Schengen visa, whose visa may allow fewer days but never more.
It does not apply if you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen, or if you hold a residence permit or a long-stay national visa from a Schengen country. Time spent in the country that issued that permit is not a short stay.
Because the 180-day window is rolling, not fixed. It has no start date and no anniversary. Your days come back one at a time. Each individual day drops off your count exactly 180 days after it happened. This is the single most misunderstood part of the rule, and the reason a mental estimate is usually wrong.
Yes, both. Under Regulation (EU) 2016/399 the date of entry counts as the first day of stay and the date of exit counts as the last. A trip from the 1st to the 10th is 10 days, not nine.
You were in Spain from 1 March to 30 April, 61 days. You fly home, then plan to return on 10 June. You have not reset. On the day you land, the previous 180 days still contain those 61 days, so you have 29 left, not 90. Count backwards from the day you plan to leave, not forwards from your last trip.
29 countries: 25 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, which are not in the EU. Bulgaria and Romania became full members on 1 January 2025, when their land border checks were lifted.
In the EU but not in Schengen: Cyprus, where border checks have not yet been lifted, and Ireland, which opted out and runs its own visa and border policy. Days spent in either do not count towards your 90.
Checked against the European Commission, 5 August 2026.
Often, yes. Under the Schengen Borders Code a border officer can ask you to justify the purpose and conditions of your stay, and a booked outbound ticket is the evidence they accept. Airlines check too. Many will refuse boarding without one, because they carry the cost of flying you home if you are refused entry.
Two things people get wrong: a screenshot of a search result is not a booking, and the outbound date has to fall inside your remaining window. A ticket dated after your 90 days run out is evidence of an overstay, not against one.
Consequences range from a fine to an entry ban recorded against your passport. Most overstays are not deliberate. They are counting errors, usually from assuming the window resets. If your dates are tight, check with the embassy of your main destination before you travel.
How the rules are kept current. The country list and the counting rule are checked against the European Commission’s published guidance and re-dated on this page each time. Last checked 5 August 2026. If you think a date or a country is wrong, tell us and we will check it.
Select a date on the calendar to start your first trip, then select again to end it.
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