Visa rules for Zambia
Of the 198 other passports, 116 can visit Zambia visa-free and 29 get a visa on arrival. 53 need an e-Visa or online approval before they travel.
Visa-free116
Visa on arrival29
e-Visa or online53
Embassy visa or no entry0
Official siteZambia immigration
DataDataset 17 Feb 2026 · checked 17 Oct 2026
Which passports can visit Zambia
Each country is coloured by what its passport holders need to visit Zambia. Hover over or tap a country for details.
Every passport, by entry type
Visa-free 116 passports
Southern Africa
- Angola · up to 90 days
- Botswana · up to 90 days
- Eswatini · up to 90 days
- Lesotho · up to 90 days
- Malawi · up to 90 days
- Mozambique · up to 90 days
- Namibia · up to 90 days
- South Africa · up to 90 days
- Zimbabwe · up to 90 days
East Africa
West Africa
- Liberia · up to 90 days
North Africa
- Morocco · up to 90 days
Indian Ocean islands
- Comoros · up to 90 days
- Madagascar · up to 90 days
- Mauritius · up to 90 days
- Seychelles · up to 90 days
Atlantic islands
- Cabo Verde · up to 90 days
- São Tomé and Príncipe · up to 90 days
Europe
- Albania · up to 90 days
- Andorra · up to 90 days
- Austria · up to 90 days
- Belgium · up to 90 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina · up to 90 days
- Bulgaria · up to 90 days
- Croatia · up to 90 days
- Cyprus · up to 90 days
- Czechia · up to 90 days
- Denmark · up to 90 days
- Estonia · up to 90 days
- Finland · up to 90 days
- France · up to 90 days
- Germany · up to 90 days
- Greece · up to 90 days
- Hungary · up to 90 days
- Iceland · up to 90 days
- Ireland · up to 90 days
- Italy · up to 90 days
- Latvia · up to 90 days
- Liechtenstein · up to 90 days
- Lithuania · up to 90 days
- Luxembourg · up to 90 days
- Malta · up to 90 days
- Moldova · up to 90 days
- Monaco · up to 90 days
- Montenegro · up to 90 days
- Netherlands · up to 90 days
- North Macedonia · up to 90 days
- Norway · up to 90 days
- Poland · up to 90 days
- Portugal · up to 90 days
- Romania · up to 90 days
- San Marino · up to 90 days
- Serbia · up to 90 days
- Slovakia · up to 90 days
- Slovenia · up to 90 days
- Spain · up to 90 days
- Sweden · up to 90 days
- Switzerland · up to 90 days
- Ukraine · up to 90 days
- United Kingdom · up to 90 days
- Vatican City · up to 90 days
Middle East
- Bahrain · up to 90 days
- Iraq · up to 90 days
- Israel · up to 90 days
- Kuwait · up to 90 days
- Oman · up to 90 days
- Qatar · up to 90 days
- Saudi Arabia · up to 90 days
- Türkiye · up to 90 days
- United Arab Emirates · up to 90 days
East Asia
- China · up to 90 days
- Hong Kong · up to 90 days
- Japan · up to 90 days
- South Korea · up to 90 days
Southeast Asia
South Asia
North America
- Canada · up to 90 days
- United States · up to 90 days
Central America
- Belize · up to 90 days
- Costa Rica · up to 90 days
- Guatemala · up to 90 days
- Panama · up to 90 days
Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda · up to 90 days
- Bahamas · up to 90 days
- Barbados · up to 90 days
- Dominica · up to 90 days
- Dominican Republic · up to 90 days
- Grenada · up to 90 days
- Jamaica · up to 90 days
- Saint Kitts and Nevis · up to 90 days
- Saint Lucia · up to 90 days
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · up to 90 days
- Trinidad and Tobago · up to 90 days
South America
Oceania
- Australia · up to 90 days
- Fiji · up to 90 days
- Kiribati · up to 90 days
- Marshall Islands · up to 90 days
- Micronesia · up to 90 days
- Nauru · up to 90 days
- New Zealand · up to 90 days
- Palau · up to 90 days
- Papua New Guinea · up to 90 days
- Samoa · up to 90 days
- Solomon Islands · up to 90 days
- Tonga · up to 90 days
- Tuvalu · up to 90 days
- Vanuatu · up to 90 days
Visa on arrival 29 passports
East Africa
- Burundi · visa on arrival
- Djibouti · visa on arrival
- Eritrea · visa on arrival
- Rwanda · visa on arrival
West Africa
- Ghana · visa on arrival
Central Africa
- DR Congo · visa on arrival
- Republic of the Congo · visa on arrival
Europe
East Asia
- Mongolia · visa on arrival
Southeast Asia
Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Georgia · visa on arrival
- Kazakhstan · visa on arrival
North America
- Mexico · visa on arrival
Central America
- El Salvador · visa on arrival
- Honduras · visa on arrival
- Nicaragua · visa on arrival
Caribbean
South America
e-Visa or online authorisation 53 passports
East Africa
- Ethiopia · e-visa
- Somalia · e-visa
- South Sudan · e-visa
West Africa
- Benin · e-visa
- Burkina Faso · e-visa
- Côte d’Ivoire · e-visa
- Guinea · e-visa
- Guinea-Bissau · e-visa
- Mali · e-visa
- Mauritania · e-visa
- Niger · e-visa
- Nigeria · e-visa
- Senegal · e-visa
- Sierra Leone · e-visa
- The Gambia · e-visa
- Togo · e-visa
Central Africa
- Cameroon · e-visa
- Central African Republic · e-visa
- Chad · e-visa
- Equatorial Guinea · e-visa
- Gabon · e-visa
North Africa
Europe
- Kosovo · e-visa
Middle East
East Asia
- Macao · e-visa
- North Korea · e-visa
- Taiwan · e-visa
Southeast Asia
- Cambodia · e-visa
- Indonesia · e-visa
- Philippines · e-visa
- Timor-Leste · e-visa
- Vietnam · e-visa
South Asia
- Afghanistan · e-visa
- Bangladesh · e-visa
- India · e-visa
- Nepal · e-visa
- Pakistan · e-visa
- Sri Lanka · e-visa
Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Armenia · e-visa
- Azerbaijan · e-visa
- Kyrgyzstan · e-visa
- Tajikistan · e-visa
- Turkmenistan · e-visa
- Uzbekistan · e-visa
Before you go
- Your passport should be valid for at least 6 months after your trip, with 2 blank pages.
- Carry a return or onward ticket, your accommodation details and proof you can pay for your stay.
- Apply only on the official site: Zambia immigration. Copycat sites charge extra.
- Check whether you need a yellow fever certificate, especially if you travel from or through Africa or South America.
- Airlines decide boarding with Timatic: check your route on the IATA Travel Centre.
Sources and checks
How current is this? Entry types come from an open visa dataset updated 17 Feb 2026, corrected where newer official notices show a change (checked 17 Oct 2026). Rules change without notice: confirm with the embassy or official immigration site, and check your route on the IATA Travel Centre before you book.
- dataPassport Index Data (visa matrix for 199 passports, updated 17 Feb 2026) · imorte, continuing the dataset by Ilya Ilyankou (MIT licence) · published 17 Feb 2026
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