Visa requirements for Danish citizens

Denmark belongs to the European free movement area, so Danish 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, Denmark 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 Danish passport for a visa beforehand while its own citizens enter Denmark without one.

The reverse holds for 67 countries: holders of the Danish passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Denmark (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 62 others).

13 countries ask holders of the Danish passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 2 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Denmark.

11 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Denmark, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Denmark, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Germany (9).

The United States refused 13% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Denmark in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 40 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 156 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Danish passport

By continent, the Danish passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 30 countries in the Americas, 22 countries in Asia, 15 countries in Africa and 11 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Danish citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), the Bahamas (240 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days) and Dominica (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Danish citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Danish citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba and 18 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.

Denmark’s neighbours

Germany admits Danish citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

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