Schengen Visa 90/180 Calculator

The 90/180 rule limits short stays in the Schengen Area to a maximum of 90 days within any 180-day period. It applies to visa-free travelers (such as US, UK, Canadian and Australian passport holders) and to holders of a short-stay Type C Schengen visa alike. The 180-day window is rolling: on every single day you are inside the Schengen Area, authorities look back over the preceding 180 days, and the days you spent there must never exceed 90.

Pick your reference date (usually today), count back 180 days, and add up every day you spent inside the Schengen Area in that window, counting both entry and exit days as full days. Subtract that total from 90 and you get your remaining days on that date. Note that your remaining days change every day as old trips fall out of the window, so the calculator above recomputes this for any date you choose.

No. This is the most common misunderstanding. There is no fixed calendar period and nothing resets on January 1st or July 1st. The 180-day window slides forward one day at a time, and each day you spent in Schengen stops counting exactly 180 days after it happened. Your allowance refills gradually, day by day, not all at once.

You can re-enter as soon as at least one of your old Schengen days has fallen out of the 180-day window, giving you at least one available day. If you used all 90 days in one continuous stay, that takes about 90 days outside the area before a substantial new stay is possible. Use the re-entry planner above: it tells you the next date you can enter for at least one day and the earliest date you can start a fresh full 90-day stay.

The 90 days do not have to be consecutive; they are a cumulative total across all your trips within any 180-day window, so multiple short trips are fine as long as the total stays within 90. You cannot, however, spend 6 continuous months inside the Schengen Area on a short stay: after 90 days of presence you must leave, and a longer stay requires a national long-stay visa or residence permit from a specific country.

Yes. The rule counts calendar days of presence, not nights. The day you enter the Schengen Area and the day you leave both count as full days, regardless of the time you cross the border. A trip from Monday morning to Wednesday evening counts as 3 days, not 2. This calculator follows that official counting method for every trip you enter.

If you stay in the international transit zone of an airport without passing through Schengen border control, that time does not count as presence. But the moment you clear passport control and enter the Schengen Area, even for a few hours between flights, that calendar day counts as a full day. When in doubt, count any day you were stamped in.

As of 2026 the Schengen Area has 29 members: 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. Days in any of them share one single 90-day pool. Ireland, Cyprus and the United Kingdom are not in Schengen, so time there does not count, but leaving for them does not reset your window either. Bulgaria and Romania became full Schengen members on 1 January 2025, so their days now count too.

No. Citizens of EU and EEA countries (including Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) and Switzerland have freedom of movement and are not subject to the 90/180 limit. The rule applies to third-country nationals: travelers who enter visa-free and travelers holding a short-stay Schengen visa.

No. Time spent in a Schengen country under that country's national long-stay visa (Type D) or residence permit does not count toward the 90-day short-stay limit. The clock only runs on short-stay presence. Once the permit expires and you remain as a short-stay visitor, the 90/180 counting resumes, so watch the transition carefully.

The 'Schengen shuffle' means alternating time inside the Schengen Area with time in nearby non-Schengen countries such as the UK, Ireland, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia or Turkey, so that old Schengen days keep falling out of the rolling window. It is legal as long as every single day of presence stays within the 90/180 limit and you meet each country's own entry rules. It does not let you stay inside Schengen beyond 90 days in any 180-day window; it only stretches how long you can travel around Europe overall.

Even a short overstay can be recorded in the Schengen Information System (SIS), lead to fines that vary by country, deportation, and an entry ban of one to five years for the entire Schengen Area. An overstay record also makes future Schengen visa applications significantly harder. Border enforcement is increasingly automated through the Entry/Exit System (EES), which logs crossings biometrically, so accidental overstays are easier to detect than before.

No. The Entry/Exit System (EES) and the upcoming European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) change how stays are tracked and authorized, not the underlying limit. The 90 days in any 180-day period remains exactly the same; EES simply makes your entries and exits digitally visible to every border post, which makes correct day-counting more important, not less.

Yes. The European Commission publishes a free official short-stay calculator on the Migration and Home Affairs website, and it is the authoritative reference if you ever need to prove your math to a consulate or border officer. This tool implements the same counting rules and adds trip history saved in your browser, a visual rolling-window timeline, a max-stay solver and a re-entry planner that the official one does not have.