Schengen Calculator: Understand the 90/180 rule with this useful tool
If you are travelling to the Schengen Area on a Schengen Visa, use our Schengen calculator to ensure you remain within the 90/180 day rule. This calculator is the most straightforward tool you will find to help understand and comply with the rules.
How to Use the Schengen Calculator
Enter entry dates and arrival dates from the past, present or future in chronological order. For ongoing trips, don’t forget to include all your trips from the past 180 days and your current trip. The calculator will identify if you go over your 90 day limit at any time. The allowance used and days remaining results will always take into account the 180 day rolling period you are in.
Schengen Calculator
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this tool, it is presented for guidance only. No responsibility is assumed for your use of this tool.
The 90/180 rule explained
If you have a Schengen visa, this means you may only spend up to 90 days in the Schengen area within any 180 day period. After this, you must leave the entire Schengen area.
The 180 day period is a ‘rolling period’. This means it moves! Think of it like a 180 day shadow that you cast behind you (i.e. 180 days backwards) as you move forward in time. As you move forward, your shadow moves forward too, but it is always 180 days long.
Let’s take an example. Imagine the year is 2026. You spend 30 days in the Schengen countries in January, then you go outside the Schengen area, and then you come back to spend another 30 days in the Schengen area in April. At the end of April, you have spent 60 days of your 90 day allowance in the Schengen area (30 from January + 30 from April).
Now let’s imagine you leave the area again, and you come back in August to spend another 30 days in the area. At the end of August, you will still have only spent 60 days of your allowance in the area (30 days from April plus 30 days from August). Why? Because at the end of August, when you look at the 180 day ‘shadow’ behind you, it is still covering April, so April is included. But it has moved ‘forward’ on the calendar, and no longer covers January, so those 30 days are no longer included!
New rolling periods work in a similar way. Continuing with the previous example, let’s imagine you leave at the end of August 2026, and you come back again in May 2027. When you arrive in May, you will have your full 90 days available again, and your allowances will be reset. Why? Because when you look behind you, none of your previous trips fall within the 180 days before this new trip.
The Schengen Countries
The Schengen countries include 29 countries. 25 countries from the EU, and 4 additional countries which are in the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) but not in the EU.
The following countries are in the Schengen Area:
25 of the 27 countries of the EU (all except Cyprus and Ireland):
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria*, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania*, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
* In 2024, Bulgaria and Romania become part of the area for arrivals via sea and air only. Talks to include land arrivals are ongoing
4 EFTA Countries:
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland
Who Needs a Schengen Visa?
Citizens from the following countries need a Schengen visa to visit the Schengen area:
How to Get a Schengen Visa
The following countries are in the Schengen Area
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