The Schengen 90/180 rule, worked out for you
Know exactly how many days you have left in Europe.
Ninety days in any one hundred and eighty. It sounds simple until you have four trips, two passports and a rolling window that moves every morning. Record where you have been, and MyStayDays gives you the number — and the date you must leave, and the date you can come back.
- Free for one traveller
- No card needed
- Passport numbers encrypted
Example · British passport
Yes — you can travel
You have 28 days left in the current 180-day window. Twelve of the days you have already used drop out of it next month, and you get them back.
It is not ninety days a year, and that is where people come unstuck
Three things about the rule make it genuinely hard to hold in your head. All three are the reason a spreadsheet eventually gets it wrong.
The window rolls
There is no January reset. Every single day, a fresh 180-day window is measured backwards from that day — so your allowance changes while you are asleep, and days you spent last winter quietly hand themselves back.
Both ends count
The day you land and the day you fly home are each a whole day, even if you were on the ground for an hour. A long weekend is four days, not two — and the countries that count are not the ones most people assume.
It is per person
Two people on the same flight can get different answers. Nationality decides whether the limit applies to you at all, and everybody carries their own history of earlier trips into the sum.
From nothing to an answer, in about two minutes
No import, no integration, no setup call. Three questions, and the product does the arithmetic from there on.
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Say who is travelling
A name and a nationality. That alone decides whether the 90/180 limit binds you — holders of free movement rights are not subject to it, and MyStayDays knows from which date that changed for British passports.
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Add the trips you have taken
Where, and the dates in and out. Add the ones you are planning too — a trip in the future is assessed exactly like one in the past, which is how you find out that October does not work before you book it.
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Read the answer
Days used, days remaining, the last date you could legally stay, and the first date you could legally return. One sentence at the top of the screen, before any of the detail.
Built to be checked
Every figure will show you its working
A compliance answer you cannot interrogate is a number you have to take on trust, and this is not a thing to take on trust. Ask any figure why, and it will tell you — in English, not in legislation.
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Day by day, not just a total
Every day in the window is accounted for: which trip put you there, whether it counted, and what the running total was that morning.
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The rule in plain English
Written from the rule's own parameters rather than typed out beside them, so the description can never drift away from the sum it describes.
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Dated to a source
Accession dates and rule parameters are recorded against the instrument they come from and the date a human last checked it — including the awkward ones, like the nine months of 2024 when days in Bulgaria began to count.
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Your passport, checked too
Three months of validity beyond the day you leave, and issued within the last ten years. It is the second most common reason to be turned around, and it is checked against the trips you have actually planned.
Free for one. £25 a year for everybody you travel with.
No trial that expires, and no feature held back to make a point. One traveller costs nothing, permanently — the whole calculation and the whole explanation. Plus is the same product for a household, a crew or a client list, at one price rather than one each.
Find out where you stand.
About two minutes: who is travelling, one trip, and your answer. No card, and nothing to install.