Visa requirements for Monegasque citizens

Monegasque 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, Monaco and 90 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).

3 countries ask holders of the Monegasque passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Monaco without one: Brunei, Kiribati and Trinidad and Tobago.

The reverse holds for 63 countries: holders of the Monegasque passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Monaco (Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus and 58 others).

17 countries ask holders of the Monegasque passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 1 of them has an embassy or consulate on record in Monaco.

16 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Monaco, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Monaco, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Switzerland (5), France (4) and Italy (4).

The United States refused 0% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Monaco in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 0 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 194 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Visa-free travel with the Monegasque passport

By continent, the Monegasque passport is visa-free in 43 countries in Europe, 28 countries in the Americas, 20 countries in Asia, 13 countries in Africa and 3 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Monegasque citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Armenia (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Mexico (180 days) and Peru (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Monegasque citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt and 29 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Monegasque citizens enter Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cuba and 21 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.

Monaco’s neighbours

France admits Monegasque citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the French 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 Monaco.