Austria visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Austria's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Austria: Hallstatt, Vienna, Salzburg, Kitzbühel, St. Anton am Arlberg, Innsbruck and 6 more.
No visa needed
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
Freedom of movement — no time limit, and no visa. Bring a passport or national ID card.
No visa neededup to 90 days
United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama
90 days within any 180-day period, counted across the whole Schengen area, not per country. ETIAS, a paid online authorisation, is being introduced for these passports — check the official link for whether it applies to your travel dates.
Visa required in advance€90 (Schengen short-stay visa)
Every other passport
A Schengen short-stay visa is applied for before travel, at the consulate of your main destination.
How to get it: Apply at the consulate or visa centre of the country you will spend most time in, typically 15 working days ahead and no more than six months before travel.
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 Austria
HallstattAustriaA village of a few hundred people on a lake under a salt mountain, and the most photographed view in Austria
ViennaAustriaImperial palaces, coffee houses, and world-class music
SalzburgAustriaMozart, a fortress on a rock, and the Alps starting at the end of the street
KitzbühelAustriaA walled medieval town that happens to have a ski resort attached, and the Hahnenkamm downhill every January, which is the most frightening race in the sport
St. Anton am ArlbergAustriaThe birthplace of the modern ski school, at the centre of the biggest linked area in Austria, with a reputation for hard skiing and harder drinking that it has entirely earned
InnsbruckAustriaA Habsburg city with ski runs above the rooftops and a cable car from the middle of town to the Alps
Wachau ValleyAustriaForty kilometres of terraced Danube between two abbeys, with the best white wine in Austria on the slopes
IschglAustriaA high, snow-sure resort that links across the border into Switzerland for duty-free shopping, and puts on a stadium concert on the mountain twice a season
SöldenAustriaTwo glaciers, the first World Cup race of every season, and a road that climbs to 2,800 metres — the highest paved pass in Austria — above the village
Zell am SeeAustriaA lakeside town with a glacier twenty minutes away, which means you can swim and ski in the same week and the resort does not shut for the summer
MayrhofenAustriaA valley town at the end of the Zillertal with the steepest piste in Austria dropping into it, a music festival on the snow, and a working village underneath all of it
Bad GasteinAustriaA belle époque spa town built in tiers down a gorge with a waterfall through the middle of it, half restored and half magnificently derelict, with radon thermal baths underneath