Schengen 90/180 Day Calculator: How Many Days Do You Have Left?
Ninety days in any 180 is simple to say and easy to get wrong, because the 180 days move with you. Enter your past stays and your planned dates and the tool counts them the way the border does. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
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Count your days before you book
Enter every short stay you have had inside the Schengen area in roughly the last six months, then, if you are planning a trip, the dates. Leave the planned dates empty and the tool tells you where you stand today, which is all most British passport holders need. The day you arrive and the day you leave both count. Days spent on a national visa or a residence permit do not count and should be left out. The tool runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
1. Past stays inside the Schengen area
Each stay is a pair of dates: the day you entered and the day you left. Add as many as you need. Leave the rows empty if you have not been in the area in the last six months.
2. The trip you are planning (optional)
Enter the dates and the tool checks the trip against your past stays.
This tool applies the published rule and is for planning. The European Commission publishes an official short stay calculator; use it to confirm. The decision at the border is always the border officer’s.
The rule, plainly
Ninety days in any one hundred and eighty
A short stay Schengen visa allows you to be inside the area for at most 90 days in any period of 180 days. The 180 days are not a block that starts when your visa does. On any day you are inside the area, look back 180 days and count the days you were present, including that day. The count must never pass 90.
Three things follow. The day you arrive and the day you leave each count as a day. Days spent in the area on an earlier visa still count if they fall inside the window. And a new visa does not reset anything, because the rule counts presence, not permission.
Ireland, Cyprus and the United Kingdom are outside the area, so days there do not count. Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are inside it, so days there do.
The visa sticker also carries its own validity dates and its own number of days, and both must be respected as well. The lower limit always wins.
Where it goes wrong
Four ways people miscount
The arithmetic is not hard. The window moving every day is what catches people.
Counting from the visa start date.
The window looks back from each day you are inside, not forward from the sticker. A trip in February still counts against a trip in July.
Leaving out the travel days.
A Friday evening arrival and a Sunday morning departure is three days, not one and a half.
Treating a new visa as a clean slate.
It is not. Days already spent inside the area in the last 180 days are still there when the new visa starts.
Forgetting the sticker’s own limit.
A visa valid for 30 days is a 30 day visa, however many of the 90 you have left. The lower number always applies.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the 90/180 rule
Official references: EU Home Affairs, Schengen visa policy · European Commission short stay calculator · Companies House, Flypass Holidays Limited
A short stay visa, and visa free travel for those who have it, allows at most 90 days inside the Schengen area in any period of 180 days. The 180 days are not a calendar block; they are a window that moves with every day, so you look back 180 days from any day you are inside the area and count the days you were present.
Yes. The day of entry and the day of exit each count as a full day, whatever time you cross the border.
No. The rule counts days of presence, not visas. A new visa does not wipe out days you have already spent inside the area within the last 180 days.
No. Your UK status decides where you apply and strengthens your application. It has no effect on how many days the Schengen area allows you.
No. It is our own tool and it applies the published rule. The European Commission publishes an official short stay calculator, linked under this tool, and the border decision is always the border officer’s. Use ours to plan, and the official one to confirm.
No. The 90 in 180 rule is for short stays. Days you spent in the Schengen area as a resident, on a national long stay visa or on a residence permit are outside it and should be left out of the calculator. Only short stay days count, whether they were visa free or on a short stay visa.
Flypass Holidays is a private consultancy, not a government body.
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