Visa requirements for Czech citizens

The Czech Republic belongs to the European free movement area, so Czech citizens need no visa anywhere in the Schengen area and can use a national ID card.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, the Czech Republic and 93 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

No country asks holders of the Czech passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter the Czech Republic without one.

The reverse holds for 65 countries: holders of the Czech passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for the Czech Republic (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 60 others).

14 countries ask holders of the Czech passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 7 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in the Czech Republic.

7 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in the Czech Republic, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for the Czech Republic, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Germany (3) and Austria (2).

The United States refused 8.7% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of the Czech Republic in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 25 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 171 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Czech passport

By continent, the Czech passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 29 countries in the Americas, 21 countries in Asia, 14 countries in Africa and 11 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Czech citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days) and Mexico (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Czech citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Czech citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba and 19 others. Australia, Canada, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 4 others ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

The Czech Republic’s neighbours

Poland, Germany, Slovakia and Austria admit Czech citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the German passport ranks 6th (161 destinations), the Polish passport ranks 19th (160 destinations), the Slovak passport ranks 19th (160 destinations) and the Austrian passport ranks 19th (160 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for the Czech Republic.