Schengen 90/180 Day Calculator

How the 90/180 rule actually works

You can spend 90 days inside any rolling 180-day period in the Schengen Area without a long-stay visa. The window is not a fixed calendar block. It moves with you: on any given day, count back 180 days and add up how many of those you spent inside the area. If the total is 90 or fewer, you are within the limit.

Both the day you enter and the day you leave count as full days of presence. This catches a lot of travellers out, because two short trips of "about a week" can quietly use eleven or twelve days between them.

Which countries this covers

The Schengen Area is a travel zone, not the same thing as the European Union. Your 90 days are shared across all of it, so time in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the rest all draws from the same balance. A few EU countries, such as Ireland, sit outside Schengen and are counted separately. Non-EU members including Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are inside it.

What resets your days, and what doesn't

Leaving the area does not reset the clock. Your days only come back as old trips roll out of the back of the 180-day window, one day at a time. The practical effect: after a long stay, you regain the ability to return gradually, not all at once.

A national long-stay visa or residence permit is the real exception. If you hold a digital nomad visa, a non-lucrative visa or similar, your time in the country that issued it generally does not count against the 90-day tourist allowance. This tool counts tourist days only.

If you're planning to stay longer

Travellers who keep bumping against the 90-day ceiling are usually the ones ready to move somewhere properly. Spain's digital nomad and non-lucrative visas are two of the most accessible routes, and the reason many long-stay visitors stop counting days altogether.