How many days do I have left in Schengen?

The short answer

Your days left on a given date are 90 minus the days you spent in the Schengen area in the 180 days ending on that date. Pick the date, go back 179 days, count every day you were inside the area in that stretch, and take the total away from 90. The answer changes from day to day, because the 180-day window moves forward every day.

If you need the rules behind this (why arrival and departure days both count, what the rolling window is), read how Schengen days are counted first. This guide is about using the count to answer your own question.

Working it out, step by step

1. Choose the date you're asking about: today, or the day you plan to arrive.
2. Find the start of the window: 179 days before that date. The window is that date plus the 179 days before it.
3. List every trip to a Schengen country that falls inside the window, including any part of a trip that started before it.
4. Count the days of each trip inside the window, including the day you arrived and the day you left. A date you were in two Schengen countries counts once.
5. Add them up. That's your days used. 90 minus that is your days left on that date.

A worked example

Days left is not how long you can stay

This is the trap that surprises most people, and it can go either way. "Days left" is a snapshot of one date. How long you can stay from that date depends on which old days leave the window while you're there.

It doesn't always work in your favor. If all your used days are recent, none of them leaves the window during your stay, and your longest stay is exactly your days left, not a day more. The only safe way to answer "how long can I stay?" is to check every day of the stay, not just the first.

Common traps

• Counting from 1 January or from your first arrival. The window isn't a calendar half-year. It's always the 180 days ending on the date you're checking.
• Subtracting dates instead of counting them. 5 to 25 May is 21 days, not 20. Both ends count.
• Counting countries separately. Days in Greece, Croatia and Italy share one count. Leaving one Schengen country for another doesn't reset anything.
• Forgetting trips you've already booked. A trip later in the year can be fine on its own and still push a later day over 90. Check future dates with your booked trips included.
• Counting places that don't count, or missing ones that do. Days in Monaco count; days in Andorra, Cyprus, Ireland and the UK don't. See the edge cases.
• Leaving out days under a long-stay visa or residence permit. Those days don't count in the country that issued it, but days elsewhere still do. See long-stay visas and residence permits.

The fast way

Counting by hand works, but it's easy to slip by a day. Our free Schengen calculator takes your trips and shows your days used and days left today, the window, your next day back, and how long you could stay if you arrived today. For a planned trip, it says whether it fits and the longest stay that does. To keep your trips and see the count update as the window moves, create a free account.

If you've already used all 90, see when you can go back to Schengen.

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.