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90 day rule Spain calculator

Planning a long stay in Spain? Add each trip below. The calculator counts your days in Spain (and anywhere else in the Schengen area) against the 90-days-in-any-180 limit and shows how many days you have left. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

How the 90 day rule works in Spain

Spain is part of the Schengen area, so the limit that applies is the Schengen short-stay rule: visa-exempt visitors, including Americans and Canadians, may spend no more than 90 days in any rolling 180-day period in the Schengen area as a whole. There is no separate Spanish quota; days in Spain and days in any other Schengen country draw from the same allowance.

The 180-day window is not a calendar half-year; it slides. For any given day, look back 180 days and count your days of presence. Both your arrival and departure days count in full. Because the window moves, days you spent months ago eventually fall out of it, and an unbroken absence of 90 days restores the full allowance.

Staying longer, and the other 183-day question

To stay in Spain beyond the 90-day limit you need a long-stay (type D) visa or residence permit, such as Spain's non-lucrative visa; days under such a permit are excluded from the Schengen count. Separately, spending more than 183 days in Spain in a calendar year generally makes you a Spanish tax resident, an entirely different rule with different consequences. If you are splitting the year between the US and Spain, both counts matter, and keeping an automatic, day-by-day record of where you were is what SpyglassBeacon is for.

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