A free Schengen calculator that counts your days under the 90/180-day rule, and checks your planned trips before you book.
Add your trips to see your Schengen days used and left, and how long you can stay from any date.
Your trips
Add past and planned trips, each with the day you arrived and the day you left. Both days count.
No trips yet. Add your past trips and the ones you've planned, or try an example.
The date to check
Your days
Add a trip to a Schengen country to see your days.
Since April 10, 2026, the EU's Entry/Exit System records every entry and exit at Schengen borders, so the days you stay are counted at the border too. Read the European Commission's page.
This free Schengen calculator tells you how many of your 90 days you've used, and how many are left.
Add your past and planned trips. It checks every day against the 180 days before it, counts the days you arrive and leave, and warns you before a planned trip goes over.
Here's what the 90/180-day rule is, who it applies to, where to spend the days in between, and the mistakes that get travelers in trouble.
What is the Schengen 90/180-day rule?
The Schengen 90/180-day rule lets visitors stay in the Schengen area for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.
It isn't 90 days per calendar year, or per half year. On every day of your stay, you look back over the 180 days that end on that day, and count the days you spent in the area.
If that count is 90 or less on every day, you're inside the rule.
The rule is in the Schengen Borders Code, Article 6. Here's what it means for your count:
- The day you arrive counts as a day of stay
- The day you leave counts as a day of stay
- All 29 Schengen countries share 1 count, so moving between them doesn't reset it
- Days outside the area, in the UK or Ireland for example, don't count
- Days on a long-stay visa or a residence permit from a Schengen country don't count
The last one is why people who live in Europe on a national visa can still travel around it.
Who needs a Schengen visa?
It depends on your passport. Some visitors come visa-free, others need a short-stay Schengen visa first, and the 90/180-day rule applies to both.
Here's what 10 passports need for a short stay in France, from each passport's Wikipedia visa table on September 26, 2026:
| Passport | A short stay in France |
|---|---|
 United States | Visa-free, 90 days |
 United Kingdom | Visa-free, 90 days |
 Canada | Visa-free, 90 days |
 Australia | Visa-free, 90 days |
 Brazil | Visa-free, 90 days |
 India | Schengen visa needed |
 Philippines | Schengen visa needed |
 Nigeria | Schengen visa needed |
 South Africa | Schengen visa needed |
 China | Schengen visa needed |
Check your own passport on the visa-free countries map. It shows every country, not only France.
Which countries are in the Schengen area?
The Schengen area has 29 countries: 25 EU members, and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
| EU members | Not in the EU |
|---|---|
 Austria,  Belgium,  Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Czechia |  Iceland |
 Denmark,  Estonia,  Finland,  France,  Germany |  Liechtenstein |
 Greece,  Hungary,  Italy,  Latvia,  Lithuania |  Norway |
 Luxembourg,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Poland,  Portugal |  Switzerland |
 Romania,  Slovakia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Sweden |
Bulgaria and Romania joined on January 1, 2025, so days there count from that date.
2 EU members are outside the count. Cyprus takes part in Schengen cooperation, but its border checks haven't been lifted. Ireland isn't in the Schengen area.
How to use the Schengen calculator
Your trips stay in your browser. The 183-day rule calculator and the countries visited map read the same list, so you add them once.
How the days are counted
Say you spend January 1 to March 31 in France. That's 90 days, and you've used them all.
On April 1, the 180 days before it still hold all 90, so you can't come back yet.
Each day after that, 1 day from January drops out of the window. From June 30, a full 90-day stay fits again.
| Your trips | On this date | Days used | Longest stay that fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| France, January 1 to March 31 | April 1 | 90 | 0 days |
| France, January 1 to March 31 | June 30 | 89 | 90 days |
| Spain, January 1 to February 28, and Italy, June 1 to 30 planned | March 1 | 59 | 2 days |
The last row is the one most calculators get wrong. A long stay in March would push your planned June trip over 90, so only 2 days fit.
Where to spend the days in between
When your 90 days run out, you can travel outside the Schengen area and let the days roll off.
Europe's neighbors are the usual choice. Here's what a US passport gets, from Wikipedia's visa table on September 26, 2026:
| Country | Visa-free stay for a US passport |
|---|---|
 Albania | 1 year |
 Georgia | 1 year |
 Armenia | 180 days |
| United Kingdom | 6 months, with an Electronic Travel Authorisation |
 Ireland | 3 months |
 Morocco | 3 months |
 Türkiye | 90 days |
 Serbia | 90 days |
 Montenegro | 90 days |
 Cyprus | 90 days |
Stays differ by passport: a Canadian or Australian passport gets 90 days in Albania, not a year. Check yours on the visa map, and each country's travel advice on the travel advisory map.
A year in Europe as a digital nomad
A simple rhythm is 90 days in, then 90 days out.
For example: 3 months in Portugal and Spain, 3 months in Albania or Georgia, 3 months in Italy and Greece, then 3 months in the UK or Morocco.
The calculator checks a plan like this before you book. Add the trips you've planned, and pick a date in the future.
If you'd rather stay put, several Schengen countries issue national long-stay visas, and days on those don't count toward the 90.
Most people are tied to a location because of their job. I designed my life so I can live where I want and work how I want.
I've lived in Lisbon and the Algarve, Barcelona, Madrid and Marbella, Sliema in Malta, Stockholm and Oslo. See where I've lived and my favorite places.
5 Schengen mistakes that get travelers in trouble
Most overstays come from 1 of these:
- Counting 90 days per calendar year, instead of any 180-day window
- Thinking a trip to the UK or Ireland resets the count
- Forgetting that the day you arrive and the day you leave both count
- Planning today's trip without checking the one already booked for later
- Assuming every EU country is in Schengen: Cyprus and Ireland aren't in the count
The calculator catches all 5, so check your plan before you book the flight.
The Entry/Exit System
Since April 10, 2026, the EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) records every entry and exit of non-EU visitors at Schengen borders.
So the border knows your days too. The calculator helps you know them first.
Who is the Schengen calculator for?
It's for anyone who visits Europe on a short stay: digital nomads, remote workers, founders at events, and travelers on long trips.
Counting days is part of living across borders. I wrote about how I built that life in what is a global citizen.
For the lifestyle behind it, Tim Ferriss's classic on mini-retirements is still the one to read:
More tools for the road are on the free travel tools page.
Schengen Calculator FAQs
Questions about the Schengen 90/180-day rule? Here's what to know.
The Schengen 90/180-day rule lets visitors stay in the Schengen area for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.
On every day of a stay, the 180 days ending that day can hold no more than 90 days in the area.
To calculate your Schengen days, count every day you spent in any Schengen country in the 180 days ending on the date you check.
The Schengen calculator does it for you, and checks your planned trips too.
The day you arrive counts as a Schengen day, and so does the day you leave.
The Schengen Borders Code, Article 6(2), makes the date of entry the first day of stay and the date of exit the last.
The UK, Ireland and Cyprus don't count toward the Schengen 90 days.
Ireland and the UK are outside the Schengen area, and Cyprus hasn't lifted its border checks yet.
Leaving the Schengen area doesn't reset your 90 days.
Your days drop out of the count 1 at a time, 180 days after each one.
You can stay in a Schengen country longer than 90 days with a national long-stay visa or a residence permit.
Days on either don't count toward the 90, under Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code.
The Schengen area has 29 countries: 25 EU members, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Bulgaria and Romania joined on January 1, 2025.
The Schengen calculator is free, with no sign-up.
Your trips stay in your browser, and nothing is sent to a server.
The Schengen calculator is for anyone on a short stay in Europe: digital nomads, remote workers, founders and long-term travelers.
I did. I'm Navid Moazzez, and the Schengen calculator is one of my free tools on navid.me.
Read about me.
For travel, you can also use the passport index, the passport comparison, the second passport calculator, the visa-free countries map, the 183-day rule calculator, the travel advisory map, the golden hour calculator, the time zone overlap calculator, the time zone converter and the countries visited map, all free on navid.me.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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