Schengen 90/180 calculator

How the 90/180 count works

The Schengen Borders Code applies to intended stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period, and says that this means looking at the 180-day period preceding each day of stay. The Commission puts it the same way: count back 180 days from each day of your stay and make sure the total does not exceed 90.^{1, 2}

Entry and exit both count. The code takes the date of entry as the first day of stay and the date of exit as the last day of stay, so a stay from the 1st to the 10th is ten days.²

There is no calendar year and no reset date. Each day of stay is judged against the 180 days behind it, so a day you spent in the Schengen Area stops counting for a later day once it falls outside those 180 days.^{1, 2}

Stays under a residence permit or a long-stay visa are left out. The code says that periods of stay authorised under either are not taken into account, and the Commission tells you not to enter them in its calculator. France-Visas adds that, while it is valid, a long-stay visa lets you move around the rest of the Schengen Area for up to 90 days in any 180.^{1, 2, 4}

A short-stay visa has a limit of its own: check the period of authorised stay printed on the visa sticker. If it is shorter than 90 days, the Commission says not to use its calculator.¹

To enter at all you also need a travel document valid for at least three months after your intended date of departure and issued within the previous 10 years, among the other entry conditions of article 6.²

The official tools

The European Commission publishes a short-stay calculator with two modes. Check mode counts previous and ongoing stays and tells you whether the stay complies, and the last day on which the rule still holds. Planning mode gives the longest stay allowed from a date in the future, from the entries and exits of the 180 days before it.¹

Since the Entry/Exit System began, an EES online tool on travel-europe.europa.eu answers the same question from the record the system keeps. You give your travel document, the country you are in or plan to visit, and your date of arrival, your date of departure or both. It answers OK or not OK and the number of days you still have. Its remaining stay does not reflect any time in the Schengen Area that began before 10 April 2026.³

The EES registers the entries and exits of non-EU nationals, whether or not they need a visa. In Cyprus and Ireland, which are EU countries, passports are still stamped by hand.⁵

The Commission counts 29 countries in the Schengen Area: 25 EU Member States plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Cyprus and Ireland are not part of it.¹