Schengen 90/180-Day Calculator
Visiting the Schengen area without a residence permit or a long-stay visa? Enter your trips to see how many of your 90 days are used on any date, how long a planned trip can last, and the earliest date you can come back for a trip of a given length.
Your stays in the Schengen area
Enter each trip with the day you entered and the day you left. Both days count as days of stay. Leave out time spent on a residence permit or a long-stay visa, and days in Cyprus or Ireland, which are not in the Schengen area.
On 19 Oct 20260 of 90 days usedin the 180 days from 23 Apr 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. 90 days left on that date.
Earliest start for a 30-day trip, from 19 Oct 2026: 19 Oct 2026.
A planning aid that counts the dates you enter; it is not the official record. Since 10 April 2026 the EU's Entry/Exit System records entries and exits at the external borders, and the EU's own online tool reads that record to show your remaining days, though it does not reflect time in the Schengen area that began before 10 April 2026. A short-stay visa can allow fewer days than 90: check the visa sticker.
How the count works
Short stays in the Schengen area are limited to 90 days in any 180-day period. Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code says this “entails considering the 180-day period preceding each day of stay”, so the window moves with you: there is no fixed half-year that resets. For every day you are in the area, the calculator looks back over the 180 days ending on that day, that day included, and counts the days of stay. That is the convention the European Commission's own short-stay calculator uses.
The day you arrive and the day you leave both count as days of stay (Article 6(2)). Time spent under a residence permit or a long-stay visa does not count, and neither do days in Cyprus or Ireland, which are not part of the Schengen area. The area is 29 countries: 25 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Planning a trip, the calculator assumes you stay every day from the entry date you give, and stops on the last day before any 180-day count would go above 90. Staying continuously, no trip can last longer than 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
How is the Schengen 90/180-day rule counted?
For each day you spend in the Schengen area, look back over the 180 days ending on that day, that day included, and count the days you were there. The count must not go above 90. This is the rule in Article 6 of the Schengen Borders Code ("the 180-day period preceding each day of stay"), and it is how the European Commission's own short-stay calculator counts it.
Do the day I arrive and the day I leave both count?
Yes. Article 6(2) of the Schengen Borders Code treats the date of entry as the first day of stay and the date of exit as the last day of stay.
Do days in Cyprus or Ireland count towards the 90 days?
No. The European Commission says the Schengen area is 29 countries, 25 EU member states and Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and that Cyprus and Ireland are not part of it.
Does time on a residence permit or a long-stay visa count?
No. Article 6(2) says periods of stay authorised under a residence permit or a long-stay visa are not taken into account, and the Commission says holders of an EU residence permit or a long-stay visa are not subject to the 90/180-day rule.
Did the Entry/Exit System change the 90/180-day rule?
No. The EU says the EES changes nothing in the rules on short stays: it records entries and exits electronically instead of stamping passports, and it has been fully operational at all external border crossing points since 10 April 2026. The EU's EES online tool shows the days you have left from that record, but it does not reflect time in the Schengen area that began before 10 April 2026.
I have a short-stay visa. Can I use this calculator?
Check the period of authorised stay printed on your visa sticker first. The Commission says that if it is shorter than 90 days, you should not use its short-stay calculator, and the same goes for this one.
The 90/180-day rule explained
How the rolling 180-day window works, with worked examples.
Read the guideThe Entry/Exit System (EES)
What is recorded at the border and how long it is kept.
Read the guideETIAS travel authorisation
Who will need it, the EUR 20 fee and how long it lasts.
Read the guideSchengen rules for UK citizens
Passport rules, the 90 days, EES and ETIAS for British passports.
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