Entry requirements
Who can enter Benin
Benin splits the world roughly down the middle — 62 passports arrive without prior paperwork and 136 apply first, 136 of them online. It ranks #58 for openness, tier B.
By nationality
Benin entry rules, nationality by nationality
62 passports enter Benin without an advance visa
Benin ranks #58 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
- 62
- Visa on arrival
- 0
- eTA
- 0
- eVisa
- 136
- Visa required
- 0
- Algeria90 days
- Angola90 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Belize90 days
- Botswana90 days
- Burkina Faso90 days
- Burundi90 days
- Cabo Verde90 days
- Cameroon90 days
- Central African Republic90 days
- Chad90 days
- China30 days
- Comoros90 days
- Congo90 days
- Côte d'Ivoire90 days
- Djibouti90 days
- Dominica90 days
- DR Congo90 days
- Egypt90 days
- Equatorial Guinea90 days
- Eritrea90 days
- Eswatini90 days
- Ethiopia90 days
- Gabon90 days
- Gambia90 days
- Ghana90 days
- Grenada90 days
- Guinea90 days
- Guinea-Bissau90 days
- Haiti90 days
- Hong Kong14 days
- Kenya90 days
- Lesotho90 days
- Liberia90 days
- Libya90 days
- Madagascar90 days
- Malawi90 days
- Malaysia30 days
- Mali90 days
- Mauritania90 days
- Mauritius90 days
- Morocco90 days
- Mozambique90 days
- Namibia90 days
- Niger90 days
- Nigeria90 days
- Rwanda90 days
- Sao Tome and Principe90 days
- Senegal90 days
- Seychelles90 days
- Sierra Leone90 days
- Singapore14 days
- Somalia90 days
- South Africa90 days
- South Sudan90 days
- Sudan90 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Togo90 days
- Tunisia90 days
- Uganda90 days
- Zambia90 days
- Zimbabwe90 days
No passports match this filter.
No passports match this filter.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Andorra
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India30 days
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan30 days
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates30 days
- United Kingdom
- United States30 days
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
No passports match this filter.
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 Benin yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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