Schengen 90/180 calculator
Add your Schengen trips and see your days used in the rolling 180-day window, days remaining before you hit the 90-day limit, and the earliest date you can re-enter if you've used all your days. Runs entirely in your browser.
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How the Schengen 90/180 rule works
If you're a non-EU citizen, including Americans, Brits, Canadians, and Australians, you can spend at most 90 days in any 180-day period inside the Schengen Area. The 180-day window is rolling, not fixed: every day, you look back 180 days and count how many of those days you spent in Schengen. If the count exceeds 90, you've overstayed.
What counts as a Schengen day?
- Entry day counts, even if you arrived at 11:50pm.
- Exit day counts, even if you left at 12:05am.
- Days outside Schengen, including in the UK, Ireland, or Croatia (until joined), don't count.
- Layovers without immigration clearance generally don't count.
What if I want to stay longer than 90 days?
You'll need a national long-stay visa from a specific country, not "Schengen" as a whole. Spain's digital nomad visa, Portugal's D7, France's passeport talent, and similar programs grant residency in that country beyond 90 days. Days on a long-stay visa generally don't count toward 90/180, but check the specific rules.
Read the full guide: Schengen 90/180 explained, rolling windows, non-EU citizens, and how to count.
Making sense of 90/180
Is the Schengen 90/180 rule a tax rule?
No. The 90/180 rule is an immigration limit on short stays, separate from tax residency. You can stay within 90/180 and still become a tax resident somewhere (for example by keeping a home there or crossing a 183-day threshold across two windows), or overstay Schengen without triggering any tax residency. The two need to be tracked separately.
How does the rolling 180-day window actually work?
On any given day, look back at the previous 180 days and count how many you spent inside the Schengen Area. That count must never exceed 90. The window moves forward every day, so old days gradually expire rather than resetting on a fixed date.
Do arrival and departure days count as Schengen days?
Yes, generally both count in full. Arriving at 11:50pm uses a day, and leaving at 12:05am uses another. Airport transit without passing immigration generally does not count.
Does leaving the Schengen Area reset my 90 days?
No. There is no reset: the calculation is always the trailing 180 days. Leaving stops you from accruing new days, and the days you used drop out of the window 180 days after they happened.
Which countries count toward the 90 days?
The Schengen Area covers most EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland, and stays in any of them draw from the same shared 90-day allowance. Ireland is not in Schengen, and non-EU destinations like the UK never count.
Does this calculator save or upload my trips?
No. It runs entirely in your browser: nothing you enter is uploaded, logged, or stored. If you want your trips saved and monitored continuously, the Tax Days iPhone app keeps them on your device and warns you before you cross the line.
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