Visa requirements for Gabonese citizens

Gabonese 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, Gabon and 8 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).

1 country asks holders of the Gabonese passport for a visa beforehand, although its own citizens enter Gabon without one: Equatorial Guinea.

The reverse holds for 48 countries: holders of the Gabonese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Gabon (Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia and 43 others).

94 countries ask holders of the Gabonese passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 15 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Gabon.

79 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Gabon, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Gabon, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Nigeria (7), DR Congo (4), Ghana (3) and Benin (2).

The United States refused 45% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Gabon in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 130 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 66 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Gabon refused 29% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 25th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Gabonese passport

By continent, the Gabonese passport is visa-free in 14 countries in Africa, 6 countries in the Americas, 5 countries in Asia and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Gabonese citizens are allowed in Barbados (90 days), Bangladesh (90 days), Benin (90 days), the Central African Republic (90 days), the Republic of the Congo (90 days) and Cameroon (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Gabonese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana and 21 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Gabonese citizens enter Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia and 41 others. Ivory Coast and Suriname ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Gabon’s neighbours

Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo admit Gabonese citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Equatorial Guinea (e-Visa).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the passport of Equatorial Guinea ranks 153rd (55 destinations), the Cameroonian passport ranks 173rd (47 destinations) and the passport of the Republic of the Congo ranks 173rd (47 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 9 can enter visa-free and 189 need an e-Visa for Gabon.