Destination Visa Policy
Who needs a visa for Malawi?
Find your passport below to see how you can enter Malawi — then open the full breakdown with fees, documents, transit and health rules.
Passport validity
At least 6 months validity on arrival recommended
Blank pages
At least 1–2 blank visa pages
Yellow fever
Yellow fever certificate required only if you arrive from (or transited through) a country with risk of yellow fever transmission.
Visa Free (63 passports)
Antigua & Barbuda · 90d Australia · 30d Bahamas · 90d Barbados · 90d Belgium · 30d Belize · 90d Botswana · 90d Brunei · 90d Canada · 30d China · 30d Cyprus · 30d Dominica Eswatini · 90d Fiji · 90d Finland · 30d France · 30d Gambia · 90d Germany · 30d Ghana · 90d Grenada · 90d Guyana · 30d Hong Kong · 30d Ireland · 30d Israel · 90d Italy · 30d Jamaica · 90d Kenya · 90d Kiribati · 90d Lesotho · 90d Malaysia · 90d Maldives · 30d Malta · 30d Mauritius · 90d Mozambique · 90d Namibia · 90d Nauru · 90d Netherlands · 30d New Zealand · 30d Norway · 30d Papua New Guinea · 30d Poland · 30d Portugal · 30d Russia · 90d Samoa · 90d Seychelles · 90d Sierra Leone · 30d Singapore · 30d Solomon Islands · 30d South Africa · 90d Sri Lanka · 90d St. Kitts & Nevis · 90d St. Lucia · 90d St. Vincent & Grenadines · 90d Sweden · 30d Tanzania · 90d Tonga · 30d Trinidad & Tobago · 90d Tuvalu · 90d Uganda · 90d United Kingdom · 30d United States · 30d Zambia · 90d Zimbabwe · 90d
Visa on Arrival (85 passports)
Albania Andorra Argentina Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belarus Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Cambodia Cape Verde Chile Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Gabon Georgia Greece Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland Indonesia Ivory Coast Japan Jordan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Marshall Islands Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Myanmar Nicaragua North Korea North Macedonia Palau Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Republic of the Congo Romania San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Suriname Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Timor-Leste Uruguay Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam
e-Visa Required (50 passports)
Afghanistan Algeria Angola Bangladesh Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Colombia Cuba Djibouti DR Congo Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia India Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Kosovo Lebanon Liberia Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Nepal Niger Nigeria Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Rwanda Senegal Serbia Somalia South Sudan Sudan Syria Tajikistan Togo Tunisia Türkiye Turkmenistan Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen
Standard short-stay tourism rules for ordinary passports. Special categories (diplomatic passports, residence-permit holders, crew) follow different rules — contact us for a personal assessment.