Schengen 90/180 Day Calculator

Citizens of many countries can visit Norway and the rest of the Schengen area without a visa, or with a short-stay visa, but only for a limited time: 90 days in any 180-day period. Because the window rolls, you cannot just count from when you arrived. This calculator takes your earlier stays, adds a planned entry date and shows how many days you have used and have left, how long you can stay if you enter on that date, and the earliest date you can come back for a stay of a given length. Everything runs in your browser. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein count as Schengen countries, so a week in Oslo uses the same allowance as a week in Paris.

How the 90/180 rule works

• At most 90 days in any period of 180 days, for all Schengen countries together.
• The window rolls: for each day you are there, look at the 180 days that end on that day, that day included.
• The day you enter and the day you leave both count as full days (Schengen Borders Code, Article 6).
• The days do not have to be consecutive. Ten short trips count the same as one long one.
• There is no reset. Leaving and coming back does not give a fresh 90 days; only old days dropping out of the window frees up days.

Worked example

You were in the Schengen area from 1 to 30 January 2026 (30 days) and from 1 to 31 March 2026 (31 days). You plan to enter again on 1 May 2026. The 180-day window ending that day starts on 3 November 2025, so both earlier stays are inside it and you have used 61 days, leaving 29 days. No old days drop out of the window during that time, because the first January day only leaves it on 30 June 2026, so the longest stay you can begin on 1 May 2026 is 29 days, up to and including Friday, 29 May 2026. If you wanted to stay 60 days, the earliest you could enter is 30 June 2026. On that day 60 days are still in the window, but the January and then the March days drop out one by one while you are there, which is why a stay of 60 days fits. Use the "Load an example" button to see this in the calculator.

How long a break do you need between trips?

If you want to keep visiting, the breaks must be long enough that no 180-day window holds more than 90 days. The table repeats the same stay many times in a row and shows the shortest break between stays that never breaks the rule. For stays shorter than about two weeks the answer is roughly one break day per stay day.

Worked out by repeating the same stay eight times in a row with the same break.

Who the rule is for, and who it is not for

• It applies to non-EU/EEA travellers on a short stay with a short-stay visa or visa-free. The Commission gives the example of US citizens, who need no visa for short stays.
• It does not apply to citizens of the EU/EEA countries and Switzerland, or to people living in a Schengen country on a residence permit or long-stay visa. Time under a residence permit or long-stay visa is not counted (Borders Code, Article 6).
• Long stays are a different route. If you want to live, study or work in Norway for more than 90 days, you need a residence permit, and UDI, not the border, decides. UDI says you cannot apply to extend a visa-free stay, and a short-stay visa can be extended only in very special cases. Read the relevant pages at udi.no/en before you travel, and check with UDI whether you may work during a visit.

Which countries count

The Schengen area has 29 countries according to the European Commission: 25 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Cyprus and Ireland are in the EU but not in the Schengen area, and this calculator does not count days spent there. Check their own rules before you go. A trip to Norway followed by a trip to Sweden, Denmark or Finland is one continuous use of the same 90 days.

Entry/Exit System (EES) and ETIAS in 2026

The Entry/Exit System (EES) registers non-EU nationals on short stays with a photo, fingerprints and passport details when they cross the external border. According to the European Commission it has been fully operational at all Schengen countries since 10 April 2026. It replaces passport stamps and can automatically flag people who have stayed too long, so the days you spend in the area are now recorded digitally, not only stamped. ETIAS, the online pre-travel authorisation for visa-exempt travellers, was not yet in operation on 30 September 2026. The Commission has said it is scheduled for the last quarter of 2026, with the exact date still to be announced, so check the official site before you travel.

If you have just moved to Norway

The 90/180 rule is for visitors. If you live in Norway on a residence permit , it does not apply to your time here. It can still matter if you are only visiting, for example on a short stay before or while you apply for a permit, or if your family visits you on a visa-free passport. Your days in Norway then come out of the same 90 days as your holidays in other Schengen countries. If a permit application is pending, ask UDI whether you may stay in Norway while you wait. A separate question is tax: when your stay in Norway could make you tax resident, see the Norway tax residency calculator, and for currency and customs when you travel see the NOK currency converter and the duty-free allowance calculator. The working days calculator is unrelated to visa days, but is useful if you plan work around your trips.

What this calculator does not cover

• Whether you need a visa, or which documents you need at the border. That depends on your passport, so check UDI or the embassy.
• Residence permits, long-stay visas and the rules for people who already live in a Schengen country.
• Bilateral visa waiver agreements that some countries have and that may give different limits.
• Stays in Cyprus, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Their days are not counted here.
• The Commission's own calculator and the EES record are what the authorities use. Your result here is a planning aid, and the border officer has the last word.