Overview of the Schengen 90/180 rule
The Schengen Area lets most visitors from outside the EU/Schengen stay for up to 90 days within any rolling 180‑day period without a long‑stay visa.
Key points:
- The 180‑day period is not fixed (it isn’t “January–June” or “this calendar year”).
- On any given day, you must look back 180 days and count how many days you have physically spent inside Schengen during that window.
- If that count is more than 90, you are over the limit.
- Days in Schengen include both the day you enter and the day you leave.
Because the 180‑day window moves forward one day at a time, the “days used” and “days remaining” can change from day to day, especially when older trips start to fall out of the 180‑day look‑back period.
How this tool calculates your Schengen stay
This site is designed to help you understand your position against the 90/180 rule. It works as follows:
- You enter your stays
- For each trip, you add an entry date and an exit date for time spent inside the Schengen Area.
- You can include both past trips and planned future trips.
- The tool builds a day‑by‑day picture
- For every trip, it treats each calendar day from entry (inclusive) to exit (inclusive) as a Schengen day.
- It combines all of your trips so overlapping stays are only counted once per day.
- It applies the rolling 180‑day window
- For today, the tool looks back 180 days and counts how many of those days you spent inside Schengen.
- That number is shown as “days used in the last 180 days”.
- Your remaining allowance is shown as
90 − used(if this is above zero).
- If you are at or over 90 days
- The tool moves forward day by day from today and repeatedly recalculates the last 180 days.
- It finds the earliest future date on which your total Schengen days in the previous 180‑day window falls below 90 again.
- That date is shown as the first possible day when your 90‑day allowance would be available again, assuming your entered trips are correct and you do not add extra days.
- Planning future trips
- When you add a new planned trip, the calculator includes those dates in the rolling 180‑day counts.
- You can see whether the new plan would keep you within the 90‑day limit or push you over it, and on which dates that would happen.
Important disclaimer
This tool is intended as a simple planning aid, not official immigration advice.
Different countries may interpret or apply the 90/180 rule with additional conditions (for example, based on your nationality, visa type or previous residence). Always:
- Double‑check your results against official government guidance, and
- Confirm your specific situation with the relevant authorities before you travel.