Free Trip Date Planner
Lay out each destination, arrival, and departure. Count the inclusive calendar days you entered, spot overlaps, and copy the itinerary for your own official visa checks.
Plan the dates first
See the shape of your itinerary before checking entry rules
Add each destination and date range. The worksheet counts arrival and departure as calendar days and flags overlapping stays. Use those records when you check the rules that apply to your passport, permit, and travel history.
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Add a valid arrival and departure date to count this stay.
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The planner counts days, and stops there
Every stay you enter is counted inclusively, so 3 June to 7 June is five days and the arrival and departure days are both in the total. That matches how presence is counted under most immigration and residence rules, where any part of a day in the country is a day. The worksheet applies no nationality, permit, bilateral or Schengen logic on top of that number. It produces a clean date series and a list of stays that share a calendar day, and the rule it feeds is one you apply yourself, from a source you chose.
The overlap flag is worth more than it looks. Two stays occupying the same date mean one of the two is wrong, and a route assembled from booking confirmations collects these quietly: a red-eye that lands the next morning, a return leg moved by a day, a hotel booked to the 14th against a flight on the 13th. Left alone, that single day propagates into every count built on the plan, and it does it in the direction that flatters you, because a day counted once in a country you left is a day missing from the country you entered.
Passport stamps used to be the record of last resort, and for the Schengen area they no longer are. Since 10 April 2026 the Entry/Exit System has recorded non-EU travelers digitally as they cross the external border of the 29 Schengen states for a short stay, after a phased introduction from 12 October 2025, so for anyone it covers the authoritative count is held at the border and computed there. A hand-built plan is still the right tool for deciding where to go next. It is no longer the version that settles an argument, which is a reason to keep it accurate rather than optimistic.
How the dates are counted
The planner does calendar arithmetic over the stays you enter. It counts days and finds overlaps, and it holds no rule about any country.
What it assumes
- Days are counted inclusively, so both the arrival and the departure day count as days present.
- Dates are handled in UTC, so a stay does not shift with the timezone of the browser reading it.
- Overlapping stays are reported as overlaps rather than merged, since a double booking is usually the thing worth seeing.
- Stays live in the page while it is open. Nothing is stored, so copy the plan out before you leave.
What it leaves out
- Visa rules, entry conditions and permitted lengths of stay for any country.
- Tax residency tests, which count days under their own definitions.
- Transit, partial days and the exceptions some authorities apply to them.
- Any check that the trip you have planned is one you are allowed to take.
Where the numbers come from
- Inclusive day counting
- Our own assumptionThe convention chosen for this page because it is the conservative one. Several authorities count entry and exit days, so counting them keeps the figure from reading low.
- Country entry rules
- Our own assumptionDeliberately absent. The planner reports how long you are somewhere and leaves what that means to the authority that decides it.
Assumptions and sources checked 5 September 2026. Published figures move on their own schedule, so confirm anything you rely on against the authority that issues it.
How it works
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Add each stay
Enter the destination, arrival, departure, and any useful follow-up note.
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Count the date range
The worksheet includes both the arrival and departure date in its calendar-day total.
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Spot overlaps
Review stays whose date ranges occupy the same calendar day.
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Take the dates to the source
Copy the plan and check it against the rules for your passport, permit, and travel history.
Related guides
A Guide to the Schengen 90/180 Day Rule
The rule those day counts are usually headed for, which the planner counts towards and leaves you to apply.
Read the guideHow to Manage a Multi-Country European Tour and Stay Schengen Compliant
Matches the tool's use case: many stays across many countries, checked as one trail rather than trip by trip.
Read the guideConsequences of Working Illegally on a Tourist Visa
The planner counts the days you are somewhere and says nothing about whether you may work on them.
Read the guideFrequently Asked Questions
Does this calculate visa or Schengen limits?+
How are calendar days counted?+
What does an overlap mean?+
Does the planner save my itinerary?+
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