How the days are counted
The rule allows up to 90 days of stay in any 180-day period. On every day of a stay, the calculator looks at that day and the 179 days before it and adds up the days spent in the Schengen area. The total may not go above 90. The entry date is the first day of stay and the exit date is the last day of stay, so both are counted; a trip from 1 January to 10 January is 10 days.
Because the window moves forward one day at a time, there is no fixed reset date. A day drops out of the count 180 days after it, and each day that drops out frees up one day you can use again.
What goes into the list
- Every stay in a Schengen country that counts towards the 90/180-day rule. Stays under a residence permit or a long-stay visa are left out.
- Stays in Cyprus and Ireland are left out, because neither is part of the Schengen area.
- Short stays in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are counted.
- Stays that do not touch each other. Two rows cannot share a day, so a trip that ends on the day another begins is entered as one stay.
Reading the results
- Days used is the number of stay days in the 180 days ending on the check date, the check date included.
- Latest exit is the last day you could be present if you enter on the check date, or stay on if you are already inside. It takes every earlier stay into account, including days that leave the window while you are there.
- Earliest re-entry is the first day on which a stay of the length you chose fits under the limit on every one of its days.
Worked example
Someone spends 10 days (1 to 10 January 2024), 30 days (1 to 30 March) and 40 days (1 May to 9 June) in the Schengen area. On 19 June 2024 they have 80 days in the window, so 10 days are left. From 29 June, one old January day drops out each day, so they can add 10 more, for a stay of at most 20 days that ends on 8 July. This is one of the cases in the Commission’s calculator manual, and the tests behind this calculator include it.
Updated: 4 November 2026