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Add your trips and see exactly how many of the 90 visa-free days you have used inside the rolling 180-day window — plus the longest stay you can still take and the date your allowance returns.
Enter an entry and an exit date to see the count.
A planning aid, not a legal ruling. Border officers count from the record in the Entry/Exit System, and only they decide entry. Nothing you type here is sent anywhere — the whole calculation runs in your browser.
The rule is short: no more than 90 days of presence in any 180-day period. What makes it hard is the word any. The 180 days are not a calendar half-year that resets on a fixed date — the window moves with you. On every day of your trip, the authorities look back over the previous 180 days and add up the days you were in the area. If that total passes 90, you are overstaying, even if the trip itself is short.
Two consequences catch travellers out. First, leaving and coming back does not reset anything: a day of presence keeps counting until it is more than 179 days behind the day being checked. Second, the allowance comes back gradually rather than all at once — one day at a time, as each old day of presence drops out of the window. After a full 90-day stay, the counter is back at a full 90 days exactly 180 days after your last day inside the area.
Since 10 April 2026 the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) has been fully operational: entries, exits and refusals of entry are recorded digitally, with a facial image and fingerprints, instead of being stamped into a passport. The 90/180 rule itself is unchanged — but the count is now made from a database, so the old defence of an illegible stamp is gone.
Vuvgo is a private application-assistance service, not a government body, and we do not sell any European travel authorisation. This calculator is free and always will be. If you also need a travel authorisation for one of the destinations we do cover, you can check your passport against all of them in one place — otherwise, take the number above and go and book your trip.
Fully operational since 10 April 2026. A digital record of every crossing, taken at the border. Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay.
What it means at the border →No start date is scheduled: the Q4 2026 target came off the official page in July 2026. You cannot apply, and nobody can charge you for one.
The delay, tracked →A short-stay visitor may be present in the Schengen area for no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. The 180 days are a rolling window, not a calendar half-year: on every single day, the authorities look back over the previous 180 days and add up the days you were present. Both your day of entry and your day of exit count as full days.
All Schengen states count as one area, so days spent in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Greece and the rest are added together. Ireland and the United Kingdom are outside the Schengen area and run their own limits, so days there do not count towards your Schengen allowance.
Yes. Entry day and exit day each count as a full day of presence, however late you land or however early you fly out. A trip from the 1st to the 10th is ten days, not nine.
No — that is the most expensive misunderstanding at the border. The window keeps rolling: a day of presence stops counting only once it is more than 179 days behind the day being checked. After a 90-day stay, your allowance returns gradually, and is back to a full 90 days exactly 180 days after your last day of presence.
The Entry/Exit System (EES) became fully operational on 10 April 2026 and replaces passport stamping with a digital record of every entry, exit and refusal, together with your facial image and fingerprints. The rule itself has not changed, but the counting has: your history is now computed automatically from the database rather than read from smudged stamps, so a miscount is far more likely to be spotted.
Not yet. ETIAS is the planned online travel authorisation for visa-exempt visitors to Europe. The target of the last quarter of 2026 was removed from the official EU page in July 2026, and no start date is currently scheduled — the EU has said it will announce one several months in advance. Nobody can apply today, so any site charging for an ETIAS now is not selling you a government authorisation.
No. It is a free planning aid from a private company, and it does not talk to any government system. It follows the published rule and the dates you enter; border officers count from the EES record, and only they decide entry. Check anything close to the limit with the authorities of the country you are travelling to.