Visa requirements for Guatemalan citizens

Guatemalan citizens can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Guatemala and 68 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).

18 countries ask holders of the Guatemalan passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Guatemala without one: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada and 13 others.

The reverse holds for 46 countries: holders of the Guatemalan passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Guatemala (Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cambodia and 41 others).

35 countries ask holders of the Guatemalan passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 6 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Guatemala.

29 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Guatemala, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Guatemala, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Cuba (6) and Mexico (4).

The United States refused 39% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Guatemala in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 119 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 77 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Guatemalan passport

By continent, the Guatemalan passport is visa-free in 42 countries in Europe, 22 countries in the Americas, 10 countries in Asia, 2 countries in Africa and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Guatemalan citizens are allowed in El Salvador (180 days), Andorra (90 days), Albania (90 days), Argentina (90 days), Austria (90 days) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Guatemalan citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau and 23 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Guatemalan citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan and 42 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, Suriname and the United Kingdom ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Guatemala’s neighbours

Honduras, Belize and El Salvador admit Guatemalan citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Mexico (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Mexican passport ranks 54th (137 destinations), the Salvadoran passport ranks 77th (117 destinations), the Honduran passport ranks 79th (115 destinations) and the Belizean passport ranks 98th (88 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 86 can enter visa-free and 112 need a visa from an embassy or consulate for Guatemala.