South Africa passport: where can you travel visa-free?
82 destinations with no prior paperwork out of 223 listed countries.
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Visa-free (70)
- Angola · 90 days
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina · 90 days
- Bahamas · 90 days
- Barbados · 180 days
- Belize
- Benin · 90 days
- Bolivia · 90 days
- Botswana · 90 days
- Brazil · 90 days
- British Virgin Islands · 30 days
- Cayman Islands · 180 days
- Chile · 90 days
- Cook Islands · 31 days
- Costa Rica · 90 days
- Dominica · 180 days
- Dominican Republic · 90 days
- Ecuador · 90 days
- El Salvador · 90 days
- Eswatini · 30 days
- Fiji · 120 days
- Gabon · 30 days
- Gambia · 90 days
- Georgia · 365 days
- Ghana · 90 days
- Grenada · 90 days
- Guatemala · 90 days
- Guyana · 90 days
- Haiti · 90 days
- Honduras · 90 days
- Hong Kong SAR China · 30 days
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya · 90 days
- Kiribati · 90 days
- Kosovo · 90 days
- Lesotho · 90 days
- Macao SAR China · 30 days
- Malawi · 90 days
- Malaysia · 90 days
- Mauritius · 180 days
- Micronesia · 30 days
- Montserrat · 180 days
- Mozambique · 90 days
- Namibia · 90 days
- Nicaragua · 90 days
- Niue · 30 days
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama · 90 days
- Paraguay · 90 days
- Peru · 90 days
- Philippines · 30 days
- Pitcairn Islands · 14 days
- Qatar · 30 days
- Russia · 90 days
- Rwanda · 30 days
- Réunion · 90 days
- Seychelles
- Singapore · 30 days
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent & Grenadines · 90 days
- Tanzania · 90 days
- Thailand · 60 days
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia · 90 days
- Uruguay · 90 days
- Vanuatu · 120 days
- Venezuela · 90 days
- Zambia · 90 days
- Zimbabwe · 90 days
Visa on arrival (9)
Electronic authorisation (eTA) (3)
- South Korea · 30 days
- Sri Lanka · 30 days
- St. Kitts & Nevis
E-visa (55)
- Afghanistan · 30 days
- Albania · 90 days
- Anguilla
- Armenia · 120 days
- Australia
- Azerbaijan · 30 days
- Bahrain · 14 days
- Bhutan · 90 days
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi · 30 days
- Cambodia · 30 days
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Congo - Kinshasa · 7 days
- Cuba · 90 days
- Côte d’Ivoire · 90 days
- Djibouti · 90 days
- Egypt · 30 days
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia · 90 days
- Guinea · 90 days
- India · 30 days
- Iran · 30 days
- Iraq · 30 days
- Japan · 90 days
- Jordan · 30 days
- Kyrgyzstan · 60 days
- Laos · 30 days
- Libya
- Madagascar · 90 days
- Maldives · 30 days
- Mauritania · 30 days
- Mongolia · 30 days
- Myanmar (Burma) · 28 days
- Nepal · 90 days
- Nigeria · 30 days
- Oman · 14 days
- Pakistan · 90 days
- Palau · 30 days
- Papua New Guinea · 30 days
- Saudi Arabia · 90 days
- Serbia · 90 days
- Sierra Leone · 30 days
- Somalia · 30 days
- South Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- São Tomé & Príncipe
- Tajikistan · 60 days
- Togo · 15 days
- Türkiye · 30 days
- Uganda · 90 days
- Ukraine · 30 days
- Vietnam
Visa required (86)
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Aruba
- Austria
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bermuda · 45 days
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- China
- Congo - Brazzaville
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Guam
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mali
- Malta
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- San Marino
- Sint Maarten
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Yemen
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Data last updated on 27/09/2026 Data may be outdated
Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), visualpharm (MIT), xpressmike (CC BY-SA 4.0), VisaMundial (CC BY 4.0). Each rule is decided by majority vote across these sources; disagreements are arbitrated against official government sources.