Entry requirements
Who can enter Bahrain
Entry to Bahrain depends heavily on nationality: 5 passports are visa-free, 66 are cleared on arrival or by authorisation, and 127 need an application. It ranks #81 for openness, tier B.
By nationality
Bahrain entry rules, nationality by nationality
71 passports enter Bahrain without an advance visa
Bahrain ranks #81 for openness
Visa-free, visa on arrival and eTA combined, out of 198 passports in our dataset. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only — not safety, government travel advisories, or how easy the country is to travel in.
- Visa-free
- 5
- Visa on arrival
- 66
- eTA
- 0
- eVisa
- 126
- Visa required
- 1
- Andorra30 days
- Argentina30 days
- Australia30 days
- Austria30 days
- Belgium30 days
- Bolivia30 days
- Brazil30 days
- Brunei30 days
- Bulgaria30 days
- Canada30 days
- Chile30 days
- China30 days
- Colombia30 days
- Croatia30 days
- Cyprus30 days
- Czechia30 days
- Denmark30 days
- Ecuador30 days
- Estonia30 days
- Finland30 days
- France30 days
- Georgia30 days
- Germany30 days
- Greece30 days
- Guyana30 days
- Hong Kong30 days
- Hungary30 days
- Iceland30 days
- Ireland30 days
- Italy30 days
- Japan30 days
- Kazakhstan30 days
- Latvia30 days
- Liechtenstein30 days
- Lithuania30 days
- Luxembourg30 days
- Macao30 days
- Malaysia30 days
- Malta30 days
- Mexico30 days
- Monaco30 days
- Netherlands30 days
- New Zealand30 days
- Norway30 days
- Paraguay30 days
- Peru30 days
- Poland30 days
- Portugal30 days
- Romania30 days
- Russia30 days
- San Marino30 days
- Singapore14 days
- Slovakia30 days
- Slovenia30 days
- South Korea30 days
- Spain30 days
- Suriname30 days
- Sweden30 days
- Switzerland30 days
- Thailand30 days
- Ukraine30 days
- United Kingdom30 days
- United States14 days
- Uruguay30 days
- Vatican City30 days
- Venezuela30 days
No passports match this filter.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India14 days
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan14 days
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines14 days
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
About this data
How to read these categories
Visa-free means no permission is needed before or on arrival; visa on arrival and eTA are granted at the border or online in minutes; eVisa and consular visa must be approved before you travel.
Data last verified: August 20, 2026. How we count
Openness reflects visa policy only. It says nothing about safety, government travel advisories, flight connectivity or how easy the trip actually is.
No destination-specific primary source has been recorded for Bahrain yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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