Visa requirements for Greek citizens

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

The reverse holds for 66 countries: holders of the Greek passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Greece (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 61 others).

13 countries ask holders of the Greek 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 Greece.

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

The United States refused 9.3% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Greece in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 28 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 168 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Greek passport

By continent, the Greek passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 30 countries in the Americas, 21 countries in Asia, 15 countries in Africa and 11 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Greek 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

Greek 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 Greek 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.

Greece’s neighbours

Albania, North Macedonia, Turkey and Bulgaria admit Greek citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Bulgarian passport ranks 28th (159 destinations), the North Macedonian passport ranks 74th (118 destinations), the Turkish passport ranks 86th (112 destinations) and the Albanian passport ranks 92nd (107 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 93 can enter visa-free and 105 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Greece.