Add trips to see your remaining days and avoid overstays.
Since the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020, British passport holders travelling to the Schengen Area are subject to the 90/180-day rule: you can spend up to 90 days within any rolling 180-day period across the 29 Schengen countries combined, without a visa. The rule applies to tourism, family visits and short business trips alike, and it is calculated as a sliding window, not a calendar year. Use the calculator above to log your past and planned trips, and check your remaining days before you book.
The 90/180-day rule allows UK citizens to stay in the Schengen Area for up to 90 days in any rolling 180-day period without a visa. It covers tourism, visiting family and short business trips. Stays longer than 90 days require a long-stay visa (Type D) or residence permit, applied for through the embassy of the destination country before you travel. Read our full guide to the 90/180-day rule for UK travellers after Brexit.
The 180-day window slides forward every day. From any given date, look back 180 days and total every day spent inside the Schengen Area during that span. If the total is 90 or fewer, you are compliant. The Schengen Area covers 29 European countries: most of the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Ireland and Cyprus are EU members but are not part of Schengen, so time spent there does not count toward the 90-day limit. As older trips age past the 180-day mark, those days roll out of the calculation and become available again.
Days are counted in full, regardless of when you cross the border. A trip that begins on the 1st and ends on the 5th counts as five days, not four. This is fixed under EU Regulation 2016/399. Border officials currently stamp passports on entry and exit, but the new EU Entry/Exit System (EES), being rolled out across 2026, replaces physical stamps with digital biometric scanning. Whichever method is in place when you travel, the day counts are the same.
Exceeding 90 days within the rolling window can result in fines of up to €10,000 in some member states, an entry ban of one to five years, or being formally ordered to leave. Penalties are at the discretion of the border authority and vary by country. Repeat overstays attract harsher consequences. For UK travellers since Brexit, the rule is enforced strictly. There is no grace period for tourist or short-business stays.
Until recently, most travellers tracked their days manually using passport stamps. With the EU's Entry/Exit System rolling out across 2026, automated digital overstay detection becomes the norm, making accurate tracking more important rather than less. The calculator above counts your days based on the dates you enter, applying the rolling 180-day formula automatically. Save your trips with a free account to come back and update them as your travel plans change.
Use the "Add a trip" form above to enter every trip to the Schengen Area within the last 180 days, plus any trips you have planned. Include the entry and exit dates for each one. The calculator counts both as full days inside the zone, in line with the official EU rule.
By default the calculator works out your status as of today. Use the "As of" date picker to check a future date. This is useful when you are planning a trip and want to know whether you will still be compliant on the day you arrive.
Once trips are added, the summary shows how many days you have used and how many remain in your current 180-day window. The timeline highlights when older trips age out and free up days again, so you can plan your next stay around what is genuinely available.
The 90/180-day rule is set by the European Union and enforced by member-state border authorities. The most authoritative sources are:
The calculator on this page is built to match the official EU rules exactly: the rolling 180-day window, full-day counts for entry and exit, and per-day re-evaluation. We cross-check our math against the EU's tool; see the note in the footer for details.
Keep track of your trips and always know when it’s time to leave, and when you’re free to come back.