South Africa passport

94 of 198 destinations are open to a South Africa passport without applying in advance

That counts visa free, visa on arrival and eTA destinations — places you can travel to without filing an application and waiting for a decision. We call this the eVisaChecker mobility score; it is not a commercial passport ranking and will not always agree with one.

  • Visa free 60
  • eTA 5
  • eVisa 35
  • Visa on arrival 29
  • Visa required 69

Visa free 60

  • Angola 30d
  • Antigua and Barbuda 180d
  • Argentina 90d
  • Bahamas 90d
  • Barbados 180d
  • Belize
  • Benin 90d
  • Bolivia 90d
  • Botswana 90d
  • Brazil 90d
  • Chile 90d
  • Costa Rica 180d
  • Dominica 180d
  • Dominican Republic 30d
  • Ecuador 90d
  • El Salvador 180d
  • Eswatini 30d
  • Fiji 120d
  • Gabon 30d
  • Gambia 90d
  • Georgia 360d
  • Ghana 90d
  • Grenada 90d
  • Guatemala 90d
  • Guyana 30d
  • Haiti 90d
  • Honduras 90d
  • Hong Kong 30d
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya 90d
  • Kiribati 90d
  • Lesotho
  • Macao 30d
  • Malawi 90d
  • Malaysia 90d
  • Mauritius 90d
  • Micronesia 30d
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia 90d
  • Nicaragua 90d
  • Palestine
  • Panama 90d
  • Paraguay 90d
  • Peru 180d
  • Philippines 30d
  • Russia 90d
  • Rwanda 30d
  • Saint Lucia 42d
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 90d
  • Seychelles 90d
  • Singapore 30d
  • Tanzania 90d
  • Thailand 60d
  • Trinidad and Tobago 90d
  • Tunisia 90d
  • Uruguay 90d
  • Vanuatu 120d
  • Venezuela 90d
  • Zambia 90d
  • Zimbabwe 90d

eTA (electronic travel authorisation) 5

  • Côte d’Ivoire 90d
  • Israel 90d
  • Papua New Guinea 30d
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis 90d
  • South Korea 30d

eVisa (electronic visa) 35

  • Albania
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan 30d
  • Bahrain
  • Bhutan
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • Chad
  • Colombia
  • Cuba 90d
  • DR Congo 7d
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Guinea 90d
  • India 30d
  • Iraq
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Libya
  • Mauritania 90d
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nigeria 90d
  • Pakistan 30d
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan 90d
  • Suriname 90d
  • Syria
  • Togo 15d
  • Türkiye 90d
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Vietnam 90d

Visa on arrival 29

  • Armenia 120d
  • Burundi 30d
  • Cambodia 30d
  • Cape Verde
  • Comoros 45d
  • Djibouti 90d
  • Egypt 30d
  • Ethiopia 90d
  • Guinea-Bissau 90d
  • Indonesia 30d
  • Iran 30d
  • Jordan 30d
  • Kyrgyzstan 30d
  • Laos 30d
  • Madagascar 90d
  • Maldives 30d
  • Marshall Islands 90d
  • Nepal 150d
  • Oman 30d
  • Palau 30d
  • Qatar 30d
  • Samoa 90d
  • Saudi Arabia 90d
  • Senegal 30d
  • Sierra Leone 30d
  • Sri Lanka 30d
  • Tajikistan 45d
  • Timor-Leste 30d
  • Tuvalu 30d

Visa required 69