Who can enter Benin visa-free?
🇧🇯 57 nationalities enter Benin visa-free, 0 more with a visa on arrival and 0 with an eTA — 57 passports arrive without pre-arranged paperwork. Find yours below, or see your whole world on the globe →
Capital Porto-Novo · Currency West African CFA franc (Fr) · Dialling +229
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Visa-free (57)
🇩🇿 Algeria 90d🇦🇴 Angola 90d🇧🇸 Bahamas 90d🇧🇼 Botswana 90d🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 90d🇧🇮 Burundi 90d🇨🇲 Cameroon 90d🇨🇻 Cape Verde 90d🇨🇫 Central African Republic 90d🇹🇩 Chad 90d🇨🇳 China 30d🇰🇲 Comoros 90d🇨🇬 Congo 90d🇨🇩 DR Congo 90d🇩🇯 Djibouti 90d🇪🇬 Egypt 90d🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea 90d🇪🇷 Eritrea 90d🇸🇿 Eswatini 90d🇪🇹 Ethiopia 90d🇬🇦 Gabon 90d🇬🇲 Gambia 90d🇬🇭 Ghana 90d🇬🇳 Guinea 90d🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau 90d🇭🇹 Haiti 90d🇭🇰 Hong Kong 14d🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 90d🇰🇪 Kenya 90d🇱🇸 Lesotho 90d🇱🇷 Liberia 90d🇱🇾 Libya 90d🇲🇬 Madagascar 90d🇲🇼 Malawi 90d🇲🇱 Mali 90d🇲🇷 Mauritania 90d🇲🇺 Mauritius 90d🇲🇦 Morocco 90d🇲🇿 Mozambique 90d🇳🇦 Namibia 90d🇳🇪 Niger 90d🇳🇬 Nigeria 90d🇷🇼 Rwanda 90d🇸🇳 Senegal 90d🇸🇨 Seychelles 90d🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 90d🇸🇴 Somalia 90d🇿🇦 South Africa 90d🇸🇸 South Sudan 90d🇸🇩 Sudan 90d🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe 90d🇹🇿 Tanzania 90d🇹🇬 Togo 90d🇹🇳 Tunisia 90d🇺🇬 Uganda 90d🇿🇲 Zambia 90d🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 90d
e-Visa (apply online) (141)
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