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Who does the Schengen 90/180 day rule apply to?

Whether the rule applies to you depends on two things: which passport you hold, and whether you hold a residence permit or a long-stay visa from a Schengen country.

Updated 20 August 2026. Checked against the European Commission and EUR-Lex.

Read this first. This is general information for travellers, not legal or immigration advice. Nationality lists change. Only an embassy, a border authority or a qualified adviser can confirm how the rules apply to your case. Check anything here against the official sources before you book. Full disclaimer.

Short answer

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. It also 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.

The rest of this page is the detail: the full country list, the exceptions, and what the Entry/Exit System changed in 2026.

The visa-free countries, as at 20 August 2026

Hold a passport from one of these 60 countries and you enter the Schengen area without a visa. The 90/180 limit is what that exemption gives you. The list is Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated text of 30 December 2025, checked on 20 August 2026.

Annex II also covers Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR passport holders, Taiwan passport holders whose passport shows an identity card number, Kosovo, and British nationals who are not British citizens, which includes British nationals (Overseas), British overseas territories citizens, British overseas citizens, British protected persons and British subjects.

Three things to check against the source before you travel. Some entries carry conditions in the regulation itself, such as holding a biometric passport, which applies to Georgia and to Kosovo. The regulation still prints North Macedonia under its former name, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. And the list is amended from time to time, so confirm your own passport against the current Annex II rather than this page.

Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are not on the list because their citizens have free movement instead.

What the rule says

“Nationals of third countries listed in Annex II shall be exempt from the requirement set out in Article 3(1) for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.”

Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, Article 4(1). Consolidated text of 30 December 2025.

The rule applies to you if:

The rule does not apply to you if:

Common mistakes

Dual nationals

If you hold an EU passport as well as a third-country passport, the 90/180 rule does not apply while you enter and leave on the EU passport. Use the same passport for entry and exit. Entering on one and leaving on the other produces an inconsistent record.

A digital nomad visa is a national permit

Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy and Croatia issue permits for remote workers. A permit authorises residence in the issuing country only. It does not increase your allowance in other Schengen countries, where the 90/180 limit still applies.

Bilateral visa waiver agreements

Several Schengen states signed visa waiver agreements with countries including the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand before the Schengen area existed, and the European Commission publishes a list of these national derogations. Some travellers use one to stay on in a single country after their 90 days.

Practice varies: whether a state applies its agreement, what it requires, and how officers in other Schengen countries treat it. Confirm in writing with the embassy of that country before you rely on one. This calculator does not model bilateral agreements.

Leaving and returning does not reset the count

The 180-day window is rolling. It does not reset when you exit. Each day drops out of the count 180 days after it was used. How the rolling window works.

What changed in 2026

The Entry/Exit System (EES) has been fully operational at Schengen external borders since 10 April 2026, after a rollout that began in October 2025. Entries and exits of non-EU visitors on short stays are recorded digitally, with a facial image and fingerprints, instead of a passport stamp. Two consequences:

ETIAS, the travel authorisation for visa-free visitors, is expected to start in the last quarter of 2026 and was not in operation when this was written. It is an authorisation with a fee, not additional days, and the 90/180 calculation does not change. Check the official ETIAS site rather than a third party offering to apply on your behalf.

Check how many days you have

Add the trips you have taken and the trips you are planning. The calculator shows your days used, your days remaining, the last date you can stay, and the earliest date you can return. Free, no account, and nothing leaves your browser.

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Before you rely on any of this

This is not legal or immigration advice. It is general information about a rule that has exceptions not covered here, and reading it creates no professional relationship.

Nationality lists change. Annex II is amended from time to time, and visa-free status can be suspended for a country at short notice. The list above was accurate on the date at the top of this page.

Your case may not be ordinary. A previous overstay, an entry ban, a refused entry, a pending application or a dual-permit situation can change the answer. None of them are modelled here or in the calculator.

Meeting the 90/180 limit is necessary but not sufficient. You can be within your days and still be refused entry on other grounds, including purpose of travel, funds, onward ticket and insurance.

For decisions that matter, ask the embassy or consulate of your main destination, the national immigration authority, or a qualified immigration adviser. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will check it.

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