Visa requirements for Djiboutian citizens

Djiboutian citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Djibouti and 45 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).

153 countries ask holders of the Djiboutian passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Djibouti without one: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola and 148 others.

99 countries ask holders of the Djiboutian passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 10 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Djibouti.

89 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Djibouti, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Djibouti, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Ethiopia (19), Yemen (5), Saudi Arabia (5) and Qatar (4).

The United States refused 61% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Djibouti in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 165 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 31 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Djiboutian passport

By continent, the Djiboutian passport is visa-free in 8 countries in Africa, 5 countries in the Americas, 3 countries in Asia and 1 country in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Djiboutian citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Benin (90 days), Ecuador (90 days), Ethiopia (90 days), the Gambia (90 days) and Haiti (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Djiboutian citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and 20 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Djiboutian citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan and 47 others. Ivory Coast and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Djibouti’s neighbours

Ethiopia admits Djiboutian citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Eritrea (visa required) and Somalia (visa on arrival for up to 30 days).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Ethiopian passport ranks 180th (43 destinations), the Eritrean passport ranks 190th (37 destinations) and the Somali passport ranks 195th (33 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 1 can enter visa-free and 197 get a visa on arrival for Djibouti.