Entry requirements
Who can enter Botswana
103 of 198 passports enter Botswana without an advance visa, which puts it in the more welcoming half of our index. It ranks #28 for openness, tier A.
By nationality
Botswana entry rules, nationality by nationality
103 passports enter Botswana without an advance visa
Botswana ranks #28 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
- 103
- Visa on arrival
- 0
- eTA
- 0
- eVisa
- 94
- Visa required
- 1
- Angola90 days
- Antigua and Barbuda90 days
- Argentina90 days
- Australia90 days
- Austria90 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Bahrain90 days
- Barbados90 days
- Belgium90 days
- Belize90 days
- Brazil90 days
- Brunei90 days
- Bulgaria90 days
- Canada90 days
- Chile90 days
- Costa Rica90 days
- Croatia90 days
- Cuba90 days
- Cyprus90 days
- Czechia90 days
- Denmark90 days
- Dominica90 days
- Dominican Republic90 days
- Estonia90 days
- Eswatini90 days
- Finland90 days
- France90 days
- Gambia90 days
- Germany90 days
- Greece90 days
- Grenada90 days
- Guyana90 days
- Hong Kong90 days
- Hungary90 days
- Iceland90 days
- Ireland90 days
- Israel90 days
- Italy90 days
- Jamaica90 days
- Japan90 days
- Kenya90 days
- Kiribati90 days
- Kuwait90 days
- Latvia90 days
- Lesotho90 days
- Liechtenstein90 days
- Lithuania90 days
- Luxembourg90 days
- Malawi90 days
- Malaysia90 days
- Maldives90 days
- Malta90 days
- Mauritius90 days
- Mexico90 days
- Monaco90 days
- Mozambique90 days
- Namibia90 days
- Nauru90 days
- Netherlands90 days
- New Zealand90 days
- Norway90 days
- Oman90 days
- Papua New Guinea90 days
- Paraguay90 days
- Peru90 days
- Poland90 days
- Portugal90 days
- Qatar90 days
- Romania90 days
- Russia90 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis90 days
- Saint Lucia90 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90 days
- Samoa90 days
- San Marino90 days
- Saudi Arabia90 days
- Seychelles90 days
- Sierra Leone90 days
- Singapore90 days
- Slovakia90 days
- Slovenia90 days
- Solomon Islands90 days
- South Africa90 days
- South Korea90 days
- South Sudan90 days
- Spain90 days
- Sweden90 days
- Switzerland90 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Tonga90 days
- Trinidad and Tobago90 days
- Turkey90 days
- Tuvalu90 days
- Uganda90 days
- United Arab Emirates90 days
- United Kingdom90 days
- United States90 days
- Uruguay90 days
- Vanuatu90 days
- Vatican City90 days
- Venezuela90 days
- Zambia90 days
- Zimbabwe90 days
No passports match this filter.
No passports match this filter.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Macao
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan90 days
- Palau
- Palestine
- Panama
- Philippines90 days
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
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 Botswana yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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