Switzerland
Verified- Region:
- Western Europe
- Time zones:
- Europe/Zurich
- Last verified:
Stay rules
Switzerland is part of the Schengen area, so the 90-day allowance is shared with every other Schengen country, not counted separately.
Short stay (visa-exempt or Schengen short-stay visa)
- Permitted stay
- 90 days
- Assessment window
- 180 days
- How it is calculated
- Count back 180 days from each day of the stay, including that day, and total the days spent in the Schengen area within that span. The total must not exceed 90. The date of entry counts as the first day of stay and the date of exit as the last day of stay.
- Effective from
- Notes
- The 90-day allowance is shared across the whole Schengen area, not per country. The rule applies to short stays; national long-stay visas and residence permits are outside its scope.
Source: European Commission — Migration and Home Affairs, Short-stay calculator(opens in a new tab)
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Passport validity
Travel document valid for at least three months after the intended date of departure from the territory of the Member States, and issued within the previous 10 years.
Article 6(1)(a) also requires the travel document to have been issued within the previous 10 years. Individual carriers and member states may apply stricter checks in practice.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/399 (Schengen Borders Code), Article 6(opens in a new tab)
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Check your stay
Non-EU short-stay travellers may spend up to 90 days in any rolling 180-day period across the Schengen area. Add the trips you have already taken, then optionally add one you are planning.
Usually today. Change it to check a date in the past or future.
Trips already taken
Add every Schengen entry and exit. Both the entry day and the exit day count as full days.
Your trips stay on this device
Saved trips live in this browser only. They are never sent to a server, so clearing your browser data deletes them — export a copy if you want to keep them.
Source: European Commission — Migration and Home Affairs, Short-stay calculator(opens in a new tab)
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Your data stays on your device
Your trips are stored only in this browser. Nothing is sent to DAYOZA.
Sources
- European Commission — Migration and Home Affairs, Short-stay calculator — Last verified:
- Regulation (EU) 2016/399 (Schengen Borders Code), Article 6 — Last verified:
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Calculators for Switzerland
Each one uses the rules published on this page.
- Schengen 90/180 CalculatorWork out how many of your 90 days you have used in the rolling 180-day window, and whether a planned trip stays within it.
- Visa Overstay CalculatorCount exactly how many days a stay runs past its permitted departure date, and how many are left if it has not.
- Passport Expiry CalculatorCheck your passport against a destination's actual validity requirement — not a one-size-fits-all six-month rule.
- Travel Days CalculatorCount the days of a trip the way border authorities do, with both the arrival and departure days included.
Nearby countries
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