Canada Passport Visa Free Countries 2024

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Canada has the 7th powerful passports in the World with visa free access to 188 countries and territories according to Henley index 2024.

Below are full list of countries and territories with visa free or arrival access to Canadian passport holders.

Visa Free Countries

Afghanistan Visa required
Albania Visa not required 90 days
Algeria Visa required
Andorra Visa not required 90 days
Angola Visa not required 30 days
Antigua and Barbuda Visa not required 6 months
Argentina Visa not required 90 days
Armenia eVisa / Visa on arrival
180 days per year
Australia and territories Electronic Travel Authorisation 90 days
Austria Visa not required 90 days
Azerbaijan eVisa 30 days
Bahamas Visa not required 8 months
Bahrain eVisa / Visa on arrival 14 days
Bangladesh Visa on arrival 30 days
Barbados Visa not required 6 months
Belarus Visa not required 30 days
Belgium Visa not required 90 days
Belize
Visa not required
Benin eVisa 30 days
Bhutan eVisa
Bolivia Visa not required 90 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina Visa not required 90 days
Botswana Visa not required 90 days
Brazil Visa not required / eVisa 90 days
Brunei Visa not required 14 days
Bulgaria Visa not required 90 days
Burkina Faso
eVisa / Visa on arrival
Burundi Visa on arrival 1 month
Cambodia eVisa / Visa on arrival 30 days
Cameroon eVisa
Cape Verde Visa not required 30 days
Central African Republic Visa required
Chad Visa required
Chile Visa not required 90 days
China Visa required
Colombia Visa not required 90 days
Comoros Visa on arrival 45 days
Republic of the Congo Visa required
Democratic Republic of the Congo eVisa 7 days
Costa Rica Visa not required 90 days
Côte d’Ivoire eVisa 3 months
Croatia Visa not required 90 days
Cuba Tourist card required 90 days
Cyprus Visa not required 90 days
Czech Republic Visa not required 90 days
Denmark and territories Visa not required 90 days
Djibouti eVisa 31 days
Dominica Visa not required 6 months
Dominican Republic Visa not required 30 days
Ecuador Visa not required 90 days
Egypt Visa required
El Salvador Visa not required 3 months
Equatorial Guinea eVisa
Eritrea Visa required
Estonia Visa not required 90 days
Eswatini Visa not required 30 days
Ethiopia eVisa / Visa on arrival up to 90 days
Fiji Visa not required 4 months
Finland Visa not required 90 days
France and territories Visa not required 90 days
Gabon eVisa 90 days
Gambia Visa not required 90 days
Georgia Visa not required 1 year
Germany Visa not required 90 days
Ghana Visa required
Greece Visa not required 90 days
Grenada Visa not required 3 months
Guatemala Visa not required 90 days
Guinea eVisa 90 days
Guinea-Bissau Visa on arrival 90 days
Guyana Visa not required 3 months
Haiti Visa not required 3 months
Honduras Visa not required 3 months
Hungary Visa not required 90 days
Iceland Visa not required 90 days
India eVisa 30 days
Indonesia e-VOA / Visa on arrival 30 days
Iran Visa required
Iraq Visa on arrival 60 days
Ireland Visa not required 90 days
Israel Visa not required 3 months
Italy Visa not required 90 days
Jamaica Visa not required 90 days
Japan Visa not required 90 days
Jordan
eVisa / Visa on arrival
Kazakhstan Visa not required 30 days
Kenya Electronic Travel Authorisation 3 months
Kiribati Visa not required 90 days
North Korea Visa required
South Korea Electronical Travel Authorization 6 months
Kuwait eVisa / Visa on arrival 3 months
Kyrgyzstan Visa not required 60 days
Laos eVisa / Visa on arrival 30 days
Latvia Visa not required 90 days
Lebanon Free visa on arrival 1 month
Lesotho
Visa not required
Liberia Visa required
Libya Visa required
Liechtenstein Visa not required 90 days
Lithuania Visa not required 90 days
Luxembourg Visa not required 90 days
Madagascar Visa on arrival 60 days
Malawi eVisa / Visa on arrival 90 days
Malaysia Visa not required 3 months
Maldives Free visa on arrival 30 days
Mali Visa required
Malta Visa not required 90 days
Marshall Islands Visa on arrival 90 days
Mauritania Visa on arrival
Mauritius Visa not required 90 days
Mexico Visa not required 180 days
Micronesia Visa not required 30 days
Moldova Visa not required 90 days
Monaco Visa not required 90 days
Mongolia Visa not required 30 days
Montenegro Visa not required 90 days
Morocco Visa not required 3 months
Mozambique Visa not required 30 days
Myanmar eVisa 28 days
Namibia Visa not required 3 months
Nauru Visa required
Nepal eVisa / Visa on arrival 90 days
Netherlands and territories Visa not required 90 days
New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority 3 months
Nicaragua Visa not required 90 days
Niger Visa required
Nigeria eVisa 90 days
North Macedonia Visa not required 90 days
Norway Visa not required 3 months
Oman Visa not required / eVisa
14 days / 30 days
Pakistan ETA / Online Visa
30 days / 3 months
Palau Free visa on arrival 30 days
Panama Visa not required 180 days
Papua New Guinea eVisa 60 days
Paraguay Visa not required 90 days
Peru Visa not required 90 days
Philippines Visa not required 30 days
Poland Visa not required 90 days
Portugal Visa not required 90 days
Qatar Visa not required 30 days
Romania Visa not required 90 days
Russia Visa required
Rwanda eVisa / Visa on arrival 30 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis Visa not required 6 months
Saint Lucia Visa not required 6 weeks
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Visa not required 3 months
Samoa Visa not required 60 days
San Marino
Visa not required
São Tomé and Príncipe Visa not required 15 days
Saudi Arabia eVisa / Visa on arrival 90 days
Senegal Visa not required 90 days
Serbia Visa not required 90 days
Seychelles Electronic Border System 3 months
Sierra Leone eVisa / Visa on arrival 30 days
Singapore Visa not required 30 days
Slovakia Visa not required 90 days
Slovenia Visa not required 90 days
Solomon Islands Free Visitor’s permit on arrival 3 months
Somalia Visa on arrival
South Africa Visa not required 90 days
South Sudan eVisa
Spain Visa not required 90 days
Sri Lanka ETA / Visa on arrival 30 days
Sudan Visa required
Suriname Visa not required 90 days
Sweden Visa not required 90 days
Switzerland Visa not required 90 days
Syria Visa required
Taiwan Visa not required 90 days
Tajikistan Visa not required 30 days
Tanzania eVisa / Visa on arrival 3 months
Thailand Visa not required 30 days
Timor-Leste Visa on arrival 30 days
Togo eVisa 15 days
Tonga Free visa on arrival 31 days
Trinidad and Tobago
Visa not required
Tunisia Visa not required 4 months
Turkey Visa not required 90 days
Turkmenistan Visa required
Tuvalu Visa on arrival 1 month
Uganda eVisa 3 months
Ukraine Visa not required 90 days
United Arab Emirates Visa not required 30 days
United Kingdom Visa not required 6 months
United States Visa not required 6 months
Uruguay Visa not required 3 months
Uzbekistan Visa not required 30 days
Vanuatu Visa not required 30 days
Vatican City
Visa not required
Venezuela Visa required
Vietnam eVisa
Yemen Visa required
Zambia Visa not required 30 days
Zimbabwe Visa on arrival 30 days

Source: Wikipedia

Territories

Visa requirements for Canadian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas, partially recognized countries, and restricted zones:

Africa

• British Indian Ocean Territory — special permit required.
• Eritrea (outside Asmara) — visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).
• Mayotte — Visa not required for 90 days with a 180-day period.
• Réunion — Visa not required for 90 days within a 180-day period.
• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
◦ Ascension Island — eVisa for 2 months within any year period
◦ Saint Helena — Visitor’s Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.
◦ Tristan da Cunha — Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — undefined visa regime.
• Somaliland — visa required (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).
Asia
• Hainan — Visa on arrival for 15 days. Available at Haikou Meilan International Airport and Sanya Phoenix International Airport.
Visa not required for 15 days for traveling as part of a tourist group (5 or more people)
• Hong Kong — Visa not required for 3 months.
• India — Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for all of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and parts of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.
• Iraqi Kurdistan – Visa on arrival for 15 days. Available at Sulaimaniyah International Airport and Erbil International Airport.
• Macau — Visa not required for 30 days.
• North Korea outside Pyongyang – People are not allowed to leave the capital city, tourists can only leave the capital with a governmental tourist guide (no independent moving)
• Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.
• Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required.
• Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
• UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.
• Arab League — Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.
• Saudi Arabia — Non-Muslims are not allowed in Mecca or Medina.

Caribbean and North Atlantic

• Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.
• Bermuda — Visa not required.
• Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.
• British Virgin Islands — Visa not required.
• Cayman Islands — Visa not required for 6 months.
• Curaçao — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Montserrat — Visa not required for 6 months.
• Puerto Rico — Visa not required for 180 days, same as the United States mainland.
• Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.
• Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa not required for 90 days.
• U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa not required for 6 months, same as the United States mainland.

Europe

• Abkhazia — Visa required. Visa on arrival available if arriving from Russian border only by train or car and must possess a multi entry Russian visa to be eligible and must exit via Russian border only.
• Mount Athos — Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors’ quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.
• Brest and Grodno — Visa not required for 10 days.
• Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.
• Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. Passport required.
• UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
• Gibraltar — Visa not required.
• Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.
• Svalbard of  Norway — Right to live and work under the Svalbard Treaty.
• Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.
• Artsakh — Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months). Travellers with a visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Republic of Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.
• South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.
• Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.

Oceania

• American Samoa — Electronic authorization for 30 days.
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorisation required.
• Clipperton Island — special permit required.
• Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.
• Guam — Visa not required.
• Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.
• Northern Mariana Islands — Visa not required.
• Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee US$35 or tax of US$5 if not going ashore.
• United States Minor Outlying Islands — special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.
South America
• Galápagos — Online pre-registration is required. Transit Control Card must also be obtained at the airport prior to departure.

South Atlantic and Antarctica

• Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).
•Antarctica and adjacent islands — special permits required for  Bouvet Island,  British Antarctic Territory,  French Southern and Antarctic Lands,  Argentine Antarctica,  Australian Antarctic Territory,  Chilean Antarctic Territory,  Heard Island and McDonald Islands,  Peter I Island,  Queen Maud Land,  Ross Dependency

References: CIC Canada 

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