Schengen Area stay days for New Zealand passport holders
A New Zealand passport holder can normally visit the Schengen Area without a short-stay visa for up to 90 days in any rolling 180-day period.
Key facts
- Permitted stay
- Up to 90 days in any rolling 180-day period
- How days count
- For every day of the visit, count that day and the previous 179 calendar days. The total must not exceed 90.
- Arrival and departure
- Both the arrival day and departure day count as Schengen presence days.
- Extensions
- A visa-free stay is not automatically extendable. Exceptional extensions are decided by the responsible national authority.
- Official source
- European Union delegation to New Zealand travel guidance
Plan with the right rule
Use the exact period granted at entry and recheck the official source before booking any stay close to the limit.
Exceptions and unsupported cases
Long-stay visas, residence permits, paid work and personal exemptions are outside this rule. Entry permission remains a border decision.
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Official sourceEuropean Union delegation to New Zealand travel guidance
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