Do I need a visa for Albania?

It depends on your passport. EU citizens: no visa needed, up to 90 days. US citizens: no visa needed, up to 90 days. UK citizens: no visa needed, up to 90 days. Romanian citizens: no visa needed, up to 90 days. Pick your passport on the page for the rule that applies to you, checked against Albania's official page on 2026-09-21.

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Albania visa requirements

The rule for your own passport, from Albania's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Albania: Tirana, Sarandë, Ksamil, Berat, Gjirokastër, Himarë.

Passport

No visa neededup to 90 days

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia

Ninety days in any 180. Albania also admits, without a visa, anyone holding a valid multiple-entry Schengen, US or UK visa — which covers many nationalities not on the list.

e-Visa requiredup to 90 days

Every other passport

Applied for online at e-visa.al.

How to get it: Most visitors need nothing. If you do, the e-visa portal takes a few days; the embassy route is only for the nationalities the portal excludes.

Official government source · checked 2026-09-21

Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.

The guides in Albania

Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, the equestrian statue and the painted ministries around it

TiranaAlbaniaA capital painted in colours to shake off the grey, with bunkers turned into galleries and a café on every corner

The bay at Sarandë, boats on flat blue water with the hills behind

SarandëAlbaniaA horseshoe bay facing Corfu, the gateway to the Riviera, and a town that quadruples in August

A red boat over the turquoise shallows at Ksamil, seen from above

KsamilAlbaniaThree tiny islands you can swim to, water the colour of the Maldives, and a village that has grown faster than its plumbing

The white Ottoman houses of Mangalem in Berat, window above window up the hill

BeratAlbaniaA thousand windows climbing two hillsides above a river, a castle people still live in, and the best raki in the country

Gjirokastër’s stone roofs climbing the mountainside, with the valley beyond

GjirokastërAlbaniaA city of stone roofs on a mountainside, a fortress with a captured plane on the wall, and the birthplace of a dictator and a novelist

A pebble beach on the Himarë coast, clear water and the green hills behind

HimarëAlbaniaThe quiet middle of the Riviera: a Greek-speaking old village on the hill, a beach town below, and the Llogara pass above it all