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SOS

South Africa passport power

94
Visa-free or on arrival
#97
Global rank · of 199
35
e-Visa
69
Visa required

Destinations by entry type

Visa-free60
Angola30 days1Antigua & Barbuda180 daysArgentina90 days1Bahamas90 daysBarbados180 daysBelizeBenin90 days1Bolivia90 daysBotswana90 days1Brazil90 days1Chile90 days1Costa Rica180 days1Dominica180 daysDominican Republic30 daysEcuador90 daysEl Salvador180 daysEswatini30 days1Fiji120 days1Gabon30 days1Gambia90 days1Georgia360 daysGhana90 days1Grenada90 daysGuatemala90 days1Guyana30 daysHaiti90 daysHonduras90 daysHong Kong30 daysJamaica1Kenya90 days1Kiribati90 daysLesotho1Macao30 daysMalawi90 days1Malaysia90 days1Mauritius90 days1Micronesia30 daysMozambique1Namibia90 days1Nicaragua90 daysPalestine1Panama90 daysParaguay90 daysPeru180 daysPhilippines30 days1Russia90 days1Rwanda30 days1Seychelles90 daysSingapore30 days1St. Lucia42 daysSt. Vincent & Grenadines90 daysTanzania90 days1Thailand60 days1Trinidad & Tobago90 days1Tunisia90 days1Uruguay90 daysVanuatu120 daysVenezuela90 days1Zambia90 days1Zimbabwe90 days1
Visa on arrival29
Armenia120 daysBurundi30 days1Cambodia30 daysCape VerdeComoros45 days1Djibouti90 daysEgypt30 days1Ethiopia90 days1Guinea-Bissau90 days1Indonesia30 days1Iran30 days1Jordan30 days1Kyrgyzstan30 daysLaos30 daysMadagascar90 days1Maldives30 days1Marshall Islands90 daysNepal150 daysOman30 days1Palau30 daysQatar30 days1Samoa90 daysSaudi Arabia90 days1Senegal30 days1Sierra Leone30 daysSri Lanka30 days1Tajikistan45 daysTimor-Leste30 daysTuvalu30 days
eTA required5
Côte d’Ivoire90 days1Israel90 days1Papua New Guinea30 daysSouth Korea30 days1St. Kitts & Nevis90 days
e-Visa35
Albania1Australia3Azerbaijan30 daysBahrain1BhutanBurkina Faso1Cameroon1Chad1ColombiaCuba90 days1DR Congo7 days1Equatorial Guinea1Guinea90 days1India30 days1IraqJapan1Kazakhstan1LibyaMauritania90 days1MoldovaMongoliaMyanmarNigeria90 days2Pakistan30 days1São Tomé & Príncipe1SomaliaSouth Sudan90 days1Suriname90 daysSyria1Togo15 daysTürkiye90 days3Uganda1Ukraine2United Arab Emirates2Vietnam90 days1
Visa required69
AfghanistanAlgeria1AndorraAustria4BangladeshBelarusBelgium1Bosnia and HerzegovinaBruneiBulgaria1Canada1Central African RepublicChina2Croatia1CyprusCzechia1Denmark1Eritrea1EstoniaFinland1France1Germany11Greece1Hungary1IcelandIreland1Italy4KosovoKuwait1LatviaLebanonLiberia1LiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMali1MaltaMexico1MonacoMontenegroMorocco1NauruNetherlands1New Zealand1Niger1North KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorway1Poland2Portugal2Republic of the Congo1Romania1San MarinoSerbiaSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSpain1Sudan1Sweden1Switzerland1Taiwan1TongaTurkmenistanUnited Kingdom1United States2UzbekistanVatican CityYemen

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