Entry requirements
Who can enter Malawi
Malawi is close to open-door: 64 passports are outright visa-free and a further 84 are handled on arrival or by travel authorisation. It ranks #26 for openness, tier A.
By nationality
Malawi entry rules, nationality by nationality
148 passports enter Malawi without an advance visa
Malawi ranks #26 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
- 64
- Visa on arrival
- 84
- eTA
- 0
- eVisa
- 50
- Visa required
- 0
- Antigua and Barbuda90 days
- Australia30 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Barbados90 days
- Belgium30 days
- Belize90 days
- Botswana90 days
- Brunei90 days
- Canada30 days
- China30 days
- Comoros90 days
- Cyprus30 days
- Dominica
- Eswatini90 days
- Fiji90 days
- Finland30 days
- France30 days
- Gambia90 days
- Germany30 days
- Ghana90 days
- Grenada90 days
- Guyana30 days
- Hong Kong30 days
- Ireland30 days
- Israel90 days
- Italy30 days
- Jamaica90 days
- Kenya90 days
- Kiribati90 days
- Lesotho90 days
- Malaysia90 days
- Maldives30 days
- Malta30 days
- Mauritius90 days
- Mozambique90 days
- Namibia90 days
- Nauru90 days
- Netherlands30 days
- New Zealand30 days
- Norway30 days
- Papua New Guinea30 days
- Philippines90 days
- Poland30 days
- Portugal30 days
- Russia90 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis90 days
- Saint Lucia90 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines90 days
- Samoa90 days
- Seychelles90 days
- Sierra Leone30 days
- Singapore30 days
- Solomon Islands30 days
- South Africa90 days
- Sri Lanka90 days
- Sweden30 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Tonga30 days
- Trinidad and Tobago90 days
- Tuvalu90 days
- Uganda90 days
- United Kingdom30 days
- Zambia90 days
- Zimbabwe90 days
- Albania30 days
- Andorra30 days
- Argentina30 days
- Armenia30 days
- Austria30 days
- Azerbaijan30 days
- Bahrain30 days
- Belarus30 days
- Benin30 days
- Bhutan30 days
- Bolivia30 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina30 days
- Brazil30 days
- Bulgaria30 days
- Cabo Verde30 days
- Cambodia30 days
- Chile30 days
- Congo30 days
- Costa Rica30 days
- Côte d'Ivoire30 days
- Croatia30 days
- Czechia30 days
- Denmark30 days
- Dominican Republic30 days
- Ecuador30 days
- El Salvador30 days
- Equatorial Guinea30 days
- Estonia30 days
- Gabon30 days
- Georgia30 days
- Greece30 days
- Guatemala30 days
- Guinea30 days
- Guinea-Bissau30 days
- Haiti30 days
- Honduras30 days
- Hungary30 days
- Iceland30 days
- Indonesia30 days
- Japan30 days
- Jordan30 days
- Kuwait30 days
- Kyrgyzstan30 days
- Laos30 days
- Latvia30 days
- Liechtenstein30 days
- Lithuania30 days
- Luxembourg30 days
- Macao30 days
- Madagascar30 days
- Marshall Islands30 days
- Mexico30 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Moldova30 days
- Monaco30 days
- Mongolia30 days
- Montenegro30 days
- Myanmar30 days
- Nicaragua30 days
- North Korea30 days
- North Macedonia30 days
- Palau30 days
- Panama30 days
- Paraguay30 days
- Peru30 days
- Romania30 days
- San Marino30 days
- Sao Tome and Principe30 days
- Saudi Arabia30 days
- Slovakia30 days
- Slovenia30 days
- South Korea30 days
- Spain30 days
- Suriname30 days
- Switzerland30 days
- Taiwan30 days
- Thailand30 days
- Timor-Leste30 days
- United States30 days
- Uruguay30 days
- Vanuatu30 days
- Vatican City30 days
- Venezuela30 days
- Vietnam30 days
No passports match this filter.
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- India30 days
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kazakhstan
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan90 days
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- 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 Malawi yet — this column comes from the general dataset sweep rather than an individual re-verification.
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