How to check your remaining Schengen days with EES
The EU now has an official way to see how many Schengen days you have left. Here's how to use it, what it leaves out, and how to check it against your own record.
Use the EU's official "Check how long you can stay" (opens in a new tab) service. You give it the country you're visiting or plan to visit, your passport details and, if you like, your travel dates. It answers OK or NOT OK and shows how many days you're still allowed to stay. It doesn't count any visit that began before 10 April 2026, so compare its answer with your own record before you rely on it.
What the tool asks for
The EU's page lists what you must provide:
- The country using the EES that you're visiting now or want to visit.
- Your travel document: its type, its number and the three-letter code of the country that issued it (for example "CAN" for Canada).
- Your intended date of arrival, if you're planning a trip and want to know how long you could stay.
- Your intended date of departure, if you're already in the area and want to know how long you can stay.
- Both dates, if you want to know how many days you'll have left once a planned trip is over.
If you leave the entry date blank, the tool uses today's date. The same check is available on equipment at some external borders, and you have the right to ask passport control officers how long you can still stay.
What it shows
- OK or NOT OK. The EU says plainly that this answer isn't a decision to let you in or refuse you entry. The border officer still decides.
- Remaining days. The number of days you're still allowed to stay, worked out for the date you entered, and for your exit date too if you gave one. The EU notes the figure "may vary depending on the actual date of entry and exit."
- "Not available" in some cases instead of a number, or a message that your remaining stay can't be worked out because of temporarily incomplete data.
It doesn't list your individual entries and exits. It gives you the answer, not the working. To see the records behind it you need a formal request under Article 52 of the EES Regulation.
How to compare it with your own record
- Run the check and take a screenshot of the answer, with the date you checked.
- Work out your own figure for the same date. Enter your trips in our free Schengen calculator, which counts every day in the 180-day window, including days before 10 April 2026.
- Compare the two. If they match, your record and the official one agree. If they don't, work out why before you travel.
- You were in France from 2 to 21 March 2026 (20 days) and in Italy from 1 to 15 June 2026 (15 days).
- On 1 August 2026 your 180-day window runs from 3 February to 1 August 2026, so both trips are in it: 35 days used, 55 left.
- The EU tool leaves out the March visit because it began before 10 April 2026. It counts only the 15 days in Italy, so it would show 75 days left.
The legal count is 55 days left, not 75. The two figures agree only from 17 September 2026, when the last March day leaves your 180-day window.
Why the two figures can differ
- Visits that began before 10 April 2026. The tool shows more days left than you really have, until those days leave your window.
- A missing exit. If an exit wasn't recorded, the system may treat you as still in the area, so the tool shows fewer days left than you really have.
- Days you don't count but the system might. For example, time in Andorra reached by road, where your exit may not have been recorded, or time under a residence permit or long-stay visa.
- A trip missing from your own log. Check your bookings and card statements before you assume the official record is wrong.
The EU's advice is to take questions about the result to the authorities of the country where you last entered or left the Schengen area, or the country you plan to visit if you haven't been since 10 April 2026. If you think the record itself is wrong, see what to do if your EES record is wrong and how to ask for your EES record. For background on the system, read our EES guide.
Keeping the check with MyTravelStatus
On the Plus and Pro plans, the EES check page lets you record what the EU tool showed: the date you checked, the days remaining, OK or NOT OK, and a screenshot if you want one, kept unchanged with its fingerprint. We never ask for your passport number. We compare the figure with your log on that date. If they differ, we test a few simple explanations, such as the 10 April 2026 start or a missing exit, and show only those that give exactly the EU's figure. They're possibilities, not findings: only the authority's copy of your record can confirm what it holds.
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Not legal advice. This guide explains the published rules as we understand them on the date above. Rules and how they're applied change, and border officers make the final decision. Check the official sources below, and get professional advice for your own situation.
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