Schengen short-stay rule · updated for EES
Schengen 90/180 calculator
Add your trips and see how many days you have left, the last day you can stay, and exactly when your days come back. Plan your next trip before you book it.
Your trips
Entry and exit days both count as days in the Schengen area.
Your trips are saved only in this browser. Nothing is sent to a server, and no passport number is needed.
Plan a trip
Pick the dates of a trip you are considering. Your trips above are taken into account.
The rule in 30 seconds
Visitors from outside the EU may stay in the 29 Schengen countries for no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. That is not "90 days per half-year". On every single day of a stay, you count back over the previous 180 days, that day included, and the total must not go above 90.
In practice: if you spend 90 days in a row in Europe, you then have to stay out for 90 days. If you travel in shorter trips, your days come back gradually, each one exactly 180 days after you spent it. That rolling window is what makes the rule hard to count in your head, and it is easy to get wrong, even for AI chatbots.
Read the rule explained with examples →
What the calculator tells you
- Days used and days left in the 180-day window that ends on the check date (today by default).
- Your latest exit date if you are in the Schengen area now, or the longest stay you could start on the check date.
- When your days come back, so you can see when a longer trip becomes possible.
- Planned trips: add future trips and the calculator warns you if any of them would break the rule.
- Plan a trip: try dates before you book and get the earliest date a trip of that length fits.
- Several travellers: keep separate trips for your partner or family on the same phone, with each person's days left at a glance.
You can share your trips as a link, add your leave-by date to your phone's calendar, or print the summary to carry with your passport. The page also works offline once you have opened it, which helps at a border without signal.
90180.app and the official tools
| 90180.app | EU EES online tool | EU short-stay calculator | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uses your official border record | No, your own dates | Yes | No, your own dates |
| Counts stays that began before 10 April 2026 | Yes | No | Yes |
| Several planned trips at once | Yes | One trip | One trip |
| Shows when days come back | Yes | No | No |
| Needs a passport number | No | Yes | No |
The official EES record is what border guards see. Plan with 90180.app, and confirm with theofficial EES toolbefore you travel, especially if your dates are close to the limit.
Who has to count
The rule applies to every non-EU visitor on a short stay: travellers who need no visa (for example citizens of theUnited States, the United Kingdom,Canada, Australia andNew Zealand) and holders of a Schengen short-stay visa. If you hold a visa, the period printed on the visa sticker also limits you and may be shorter than 90 days. EU, EEA and Swiss citizens are not affected.
It matters most for second-home owners in Spain, France or Portugal, people visiting family, long-term travellers and digital nomads moving between countries, and anyone combining several trips in one year. See thefull list of visa-free nationalities.
Frequently asked questions
How does the 90/180 rule work?
On any day you are in the Schengen area, look back at that day and the 179 days before it. In that 180-day window you may have spent at most 90 days in the Schengen area. The window moves forward every day, so old days slowly drop out and you get them back one by one.
Do the day I arrive and the day I leave both count?
Yes. Article 6(2) of the Schengen Borders Code says the date of entry is the first day of stay and the date of exit is the last day of stay. A day trip from London to Paris counts as one full day.
Is the 90 days per country or for the whole Schengen area?
For the whole area. Days in France, Spain, Switzerland and Norway all come out of the same 90. A few nationalities have bilateral agreements with individual countries that can add time; see the Australian and New Zealand guides.
Can I just leave for one day and come back to reset my 90 days?
No. Leaving does not reset anything; only time does. A day spent outside simply is not counted, and your old days come back 180 days after you spent them. The calculator shows you exactly when.
Does time in Ireland, Cyprus or the UK count?
No. Ireland, Cyprus and the United Kingdom are not part of the Schengen area. Bulgaria and Romania are, and so are the non-EU countries Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. See places that do not count.
Is there an official way to check my days?
Yes: since the Entry/Exit System went live, the EU runs an online tool that needs your passport number. It does not include time spent in the Schengen area that began before 10 April 2026, and it checks one trip at a time. Use 90180.app to plan several trips, and the official tool to confirm before you travel. More about the EES.
I have a residence permit or a long-stay visa. Do those days count?
No. Days spent under an EU residence permit or a national long-stay (D) visa are not counted towards the 90 days (Schengen Borders Code, Article 6(2)). Only enter the days you spent as a short-stay visitor.
Are my dates stored anywhere?
Only in your own browser (local storage). There are no accounts and nothing is sent to us. If you share a link, the dates travel inside the link itself.
Official sources
- Schengen Borders Code, Regulation (EU) 2016/399, Article 6 (consolidated text) (checked 2026-10-31)
- European Commission: Short-stay calculator (checked 2026-10-31)
- European Union: EES, Check how long you can stay (checked 2026-10-31)
- European Union: What is the EES? (checked 2026-10-31)