Visa requirements for Finnish citizens

A Finnish passport

A Finnish identity card is valid for travel to most of the European countries

Visa requirements for Finnish citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Finland. As of 2 July 2019, Finnish citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 187 countries and territories, ranking the Finnish passport 1st in terms of travel freedom (tied with Denmark, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Singapore and the United Kingdom) according to the Henley Passport Index. Additionally, the World Tourism Organization also published a report on 15 January 2016 ranking the Finnish passport 1st in the world (tied with Denmark, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Singapore and the United Kingdom) in terms of travel freedom, with the mobility index of 160 (out of 215 with no visa weighted by 1, visa on arrival weighted by 0.7, eVisa by 0.5 and traditional visa weighted by 0).

Visa requirements map

Visa requirements for Finnish citizens

  Finland

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  Visa not required / ESTA / eTA / eVisitor

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  Visa available both on arrival or online

  Visa required prior to arrival

Visa requirements

Country	Visa requirement	Allowed stay	Notes (excluding departure fees)
Afghanistan	Visa required
Albania	Visa not required	90 days	ID card valid
Algeria	Visa required
Andorra	Visa not required		ID card valid
Angola	eVisa	30 days	30 days per trip, but no more than 90 days within any 1 calendar year for tourism purposes only. Visitors must have a return/onward ticket and a hotel reservation confirmation. An International Certificate of Vaccination is required.
Antigua and Barbuda	Visa not required	3 months
Argentina	Visa not required	90 days
Armenia	Visa not required	180 days
Australia	eVisitor	90 days	90 days on each visit in 12-month period if granted
Austria	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Azerbaijan	eVisa	30 days
Bahamas	Visa not required	3 months
Bahrain	eVisa / Visa on arrival	14 days
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival	30 days
Barbados	Visa not required	3 months
Belarus	Visa not required	30 days	Must arrive and depart via Minsk International Airport.
Belgium	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Belize	Visa not required	1 month
Benin	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days / 8 days	Must have an international vaccination certificate.
Bhutan	Visa required
Bolivia	Visa not required	90 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 6-month period ID card valid
Botswana	Visa not required	90 days
Brazil	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Brunei	Visa not required	90 days
Bulgaria	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Burkina Faso	Visa on arrival	1 month
Burundi	Visa required
Cambodia	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days	Visa is also obtainable online.
Cameroon	Visa required
Canada	Visa not required	6 months	eTA required if arriving by air.
Cape Verde	Visa not required	30 days	Must register online at least five days prior to arrival.
Central African Republic	Visa required
Chad	Visa required
Chile	Visa not required	90 days
China	Visa required		24-hour visa-free transit through any international airports of China, allows domestic travel through different airports. 72-hour visa-free transit through Changsha, Guilin and Harbin airports, or Beihai port. 144-hour visa-free transit through Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jieyang, Kunming, Nanjing, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an airports, or Dalian, Guangzhou, Lianyungang, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Xiamen and Zhoushan ports. Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan count as third countries under the 24, 72 and 144-hours transit without visa (TWOV) policies.
Colombia	Visa not required	180 days	90 days - extendable up to 180-days stay within a one-year period
Comoros	Visa on arrival
Republic of the Congo	Visa required
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Visa required
Costa Rica	Visa not required	90 days
Côte d'Ivoire	eVisa		eVisa holders must arrive via Port Bouet Airport.
Croatia	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Cuba	Tourist Card required
Cyprus	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Czech Republic	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Denmark	Visa not required	Freedom of movement (including Faroe Islands and Greenland) ID card valid
Djibouti	eVisa	31 days
Dominica	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Dominican Republic	Visa not required	90 days
Ecuador	Visa not required	90 days
Egypt	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days
El Salvador	Visa not required	3 months
Equatorial Guinea	Visa required
Eritrea	Visa required
Estonia	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Eswatini	Visa not required	30 days
Ethiopia	eVisa / Visa on arrival	up to 90 days	Visa on arrival is obtainable only at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. e-Visa holders must arrive via Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. e-Visa is available for 30 or 90 days.
Fiji	Visa not required	4 months
France	Visa not required	Freedom of movement (in Regions of France) ID card valid
Gabon	eVisa / Visa on arrival	90 days	Electronic visa holders must arrive via Libreville International Airport.
Gambia	Visa not required	90 days
Georgia	Visa not required	1 year	ID card valid
Germany	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Ghana	Visa required
Greece	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Grenada	Visa not required	3 months
Guatemala	Visa not required	90 days
Guinea	eVisa	90 days
Guinea-Bissau	eVisa / Visa on arrival	90 days
Guyana	Visa not required	3 months
Haiti	Visa not required	90 days
Honduras	Visa not required	3 months
Hungary	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Iceland	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
India	e-Visa	30 days, 90 days	eVisa or India is available in three duration for Tourism: 30 Day, 1 Year and 5 Years. Entry is allowed on 28 Airports and 5 Seaports.
Indonesia	Visa not required	30 days
Iran	Visa on arrival	30 days
Iraq	Visa required	15 days	Visa on arrival for 15 days at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.
Ireland	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Israel	Visa not required	3 months
Italy	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Jamaica	Visa not required	90 days
Japan	Visa not required	90 days
Jordan	Free visa on arrival		Conditions apply.
Kazakhstan	Visa not required	30 days
Kenya	eVisa / Visa on arrival	3 months
Kiribati	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
North Korea	Visa required
South Korea	Visa not required	90 days
Kuwait	eVisa / Visa on arrival	3 months
Kyrgyzstan	Visa not required	60 days
Laos	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days
Latvia	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Lebanon	Visa on arrival	1 month	Extendable for 2 additional months Granted free of charge at Beirut International Airport or any other port of entry if there is no Israeli visa or seal, holding a telephone number, an address in Lebanon, and a non refundable return or circle trip ticket.
Lesotho	Visa not required	14 days
Liberia	Visa required
Libya	Visa required
Liechtenstein	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Lithuania	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Luxembourg	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Madagascar	eVisa / Visa on arrival	90 days
Malawi	eVisa / Visa on arrival
Malaysia	Visa not required	3 months
Maldives	Visa on arrival	30 days
Mali	Visa required
Malta	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Marshall Islands	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Mauritania	Visa on arrival		Available at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport.
Mauritius	Visa not required	90 days
Mexico	Visa not required	180 days
Micronesia	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Moldova	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Monaco	Visa not required		ID card valid
Mongolia	Visa on arrival	30 days	Visa may be obtained on arrival only at Ulaanbaatar Airport. The consular department of the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia advises for visa to be applied for prior to arrival.
Montenegro	Visa not required	90 days	ID card valid for 30 days
Morocco	Visa not required	90 days
Mozambique	Visa on arrival	30 days
Myanmar	eVisa	28 days	eVisa holders must arrive via Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw or Mandalay airports or via land border crossings with Thailand — Tachileik, Myawaddy and Kawthaung or India — Rih Khaw Dar and Tamu. eVisa available for both tourism (allowed stay is 28 days) or business (allowed stay is 70 days) purposes.
Namibia	Visa not required	3 months	3 months within a calendar year
Nauru	Visa required
Nepal	Visa on arrival	90 days
Netherlands	Visa not required	Freedom of movement (European Netherlands) ID card valid
New Zealand	Electronic Travel Authority	90 days	International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy must be obtained alongside Electronic Travel Authority.
Nicaragua	Visa not required	90 days
Niger	Visa required
Nigeria	Visa required
North Macedonia	Visa not required	90 days	ID card valid
Norway	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Oman	eVisa	30 days
Pakistan	Electronic Travel Authorization		Electronic Travel Authorization to obtain a visa on arrival for tourism purposes. Electronic Travel Authorization to obtain a visa on arrival for business purposes. Online Visa eligible.
Palau	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Panama	Visa not required	180 days
Papua New Guinea	eVisa / Free visa on arrival	60 days
Paraguay	Visa not required	90 days
Peru	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 6-month period
Philippines	Visa not required	30 days
Poland	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Portugal	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Qatar	Visa not required	90 days
Romania	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Russia	Visa required		72-hours visa free visit when entering by regular ferry via port of St. Petersburg, provided that a passenger spends the night on-board or in accommodation specifically approved by the travel agency. A free e-visa can be issued for 30 days for travel across St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast.
Rwanda	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Visa not required	3 months
Saint Lucia	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Samoa	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
San Marino	Visa not required		ID card valid
São Tomé and Príncipe	Visa not required	15 days
Saudi Arabia	eVisa / Visa on arrival	90 days
Senegal	Visa not required	90 days
Serbia	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 6-month period ID card valid
Seychelles	Visa not required	3 months
Sierra Leone	Visa on arrival
Singapore	Visa not required	90 days
Slovakia	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Slovenia	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Solomon Islands	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Somalia	Visa on arrival		Available at Berbera, Borama, Burao, Erigavo and Hargeisa airports. 30 days, available at Bosaso Airport, Galcaio Airport and Mogadishu Airport.
South Africa	Visa not required	90 days
South Sudan	Visa required
Spain	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Sri Lanka	eVisa / Visa on arrival	30 days
Sudan	Visa required
Suriname	E-tourist card	90 days	Multiple entry eVisa is also available.
Sweden	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Switzerland	Visa not required	Freedom of movement ID card valid
Syria	Visa required
Tajikistan	Visa on arrival	45 days	At Dushanbe International Airport Visa also available online. E-visa holders can enter through all border points.
Tanzania	eVisa / Visa on arrival	3 months
Thailand	Visa not required	30 days	Maximum two visits annually if not arriving by air.
Timor-Leste	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Togo	Visa on arrival	7 days
Tonga	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Trinidad and Tobago	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Tunisia	Visa not required	3 months
Turkey	Visa not required	3 months
Turkmenistan	Visa required
Tuvalu	Visa not required	90 days
Uganda	eVisa / Visa on arrival		May apply online.
Ukraine	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
United Arab Emirates	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
United Kingdom	Visa not required	Freedom of movement (in Constituent countries) ID card valid
United States	Visa Waiver Program	90 days	On arrival from overseas; ESTA (valid for 2 years when issued) required if arriving by air or cruise ship.
Uruguay	Visa not required	90 days
Uzbekistan	Visa not required	30 days
Vanuatu	Visa not required	90 days	90 days within any 180 day period
Vatican City	Visa not required		ID card valid
Venezuela	Visa not required	90 days
Vietnam	Visa not required	15 days	Extended visas available at Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Phu Quoc, or Danang airports. 30 day visa exemption at Phu Quoc Island. A single entry eVisa valid for 30 days is also available.
Yemen	Visa required
Zambia	eVisa / Visa on arrival	90 days	Also eligible for a universal visa allowing access to Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe	eVisa / Visa on arrival	3 months	Also eligible for a universal visa allowing access to Zambia.

Territories

Visa requirements for Finnish citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries and restricted zones:

Europe

• Abkhazia — Visa required.
• Artsakh — Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months).
  Travellers with Artsakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Artsakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.
• Mount Athos — Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.
• Brest and Grodno — Visa not required for 10 days.
• Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. Passport required.
• UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
• Faroe Islands — Freedom of movement.
• Gibraltar — Visa not required.
• Guernsey – Visa not required.
  • Alderney – Visa not required.
  • Sark – Visa not required.
• Isle of Man — Visa not required.
• Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.
• Jersey – Visa not required.
• Kaliningrad Oblast — From 1 July 2019, Finnish citizens are eligible for E-visa access for 8 days.
• Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.
• Closed cities and regions in Russia — special authorization required.
• South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.
• Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.

Africa

• Eritrea (outside Asmara) — visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — Visa not required up to 3 months.
• Somaliland — Visa issued on arrival (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).
• Sudan — All foreigners traveling more than 25 kilometers outside of Khartoum must obtain a travel permit.
  • Darfur — Separate travel permit is required.

Asia

• Hainan — Visa not required for 15 days for traveling as part of a tourist group (5 or more people)
• Hong Kong — Visa not required for 90 days.
• India — Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for whole states of Nagaland and Sikkim and parts of states Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.
• Iraqi Kurdistan — Visa on arrival for 15 days is available at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.
• Kazakhstan — Special permission required for the town of Baikonur and surrounding areas in Kyzylorda Oblast, and the town of Gvardeyskiy near Almaty.
• Kish Island — Visitors to Kish Island do not require a visa.
• Macao — Visa not required for 90 days.
• Sabah and Sarawak — These states have their own immigration authorities and passport is required to travel to them, however the same visa applies.
• Maldives — With the exception of the capital Malé, tourists are generally prohibited from visiting non-resort islands without the express permission of the Government of Maldives.
• North Korea outside Pyongyang – People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
• Palestine — Visa not required. Arrival by sea to Gaza Strip not allowed.
• Taiwan — Visa not required for 90 days.
• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.
• Turkmenistan — A special permit, issued prior to arrival by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is required if visiting the following places: Atamurat, Cheleken, Dashoguz, Serakhs and Serhetabat.
• Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).
• Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
• UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.
• Phú Quốc — can visit without a visa for up to 30 days.
• Yemen — Special permission needed for travel outside Sana’a or Aden.

Caribbean and North Atlantic

• Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.
• Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Bermuda — Visa not required for 21 days (extendable).
• British Virgin Islands — Visa not required for 1 month (extendable).
• Cayman Islands — Visa not required for 6 months.
• Colombia — Visitors arriving at San Andrés and Leticia must buy tourist cards on arrival.
• Curacao — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Montserrat — Visa not required for 6 months.
• Greenland — Freedom of movement.
• Margarita Island — All visitors are fingerprinted.
• Puerto Rico — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon — Visa not required for 30 days.
• Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa not required for 90 days.
• U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.

Oceania

• American Samoa — Electronic authorization for 30 days.
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorization required.
• Clipperton Island — special permit required.
• Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.
• Lau Province — Special permission required.
• French Polynesia — Visa not required.
• Guam — Visa not required under the Visa Waiver Program, for 90 days on arrival from overseas for 2 years. ESTA required.
• New Caledonia — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.
• Northern Mariana Islands — Visa not required.
• Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.
• Tokelau — Entry permit required.
• United States Minor Outlying Islands — special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.
• Wallis and Futuna — Visa not required.

South Atlantic and Antarctica

• Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.
• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  • Ascension Island — eVisa for 3 months within any year period.
  • Saint Helena — Entry Permit (£25) for 183 days is issued on arrival.
  • Tristan da Cunha — Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).
• Antarctica and adjacent islands — special permits required for French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.
• Arab League — Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.

Non-ordinary passports

Holders of various categories of official Finnish passports have additional visa-free access to the following countries - Kazakhstan (diplomatic passports), Pakistan (diplomatic or service passports) and Russia (diplomatic passports). Holders of diplomatic or service passports of any country have visa-free access to Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.

Right to consular protection in non-EU countries

When in a non-EU country where there is no Finnish embassy, Finnish citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.

See also List of diplomatic missions of Finland.

Diplomatic missions of Finland

See also

• Visa requirements for the European Union citizens
• Finnish passport

References and Notes

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