Botswana passport

Rank, score and destinations reachable with the Botswana passport — Passport Index ranking and visa verdict breakdown on Atlas.

The Botswana passport ranks 115 worldwide, giving access to 79 destinations without a prior visa.

Botswana ranks 71 in the worldwide openness ranking, and can be entered without a prior visa by 103 passports.

Passport rank
115 / 199
Visa-free travel to
79 destinations
Openness rank
71 / 199
Visa-free entry for
103 passports

Visa-free — 48

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Brazil, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eswatini, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Israel, Jamaica, Kiribati, Kosovo, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Panama, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Visa on arrival — 24

Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Laos, Macau, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritania, Nepal, Nigeria, Palau, Qatar, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu

Electronic authorisation (ETA) — 7

Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Suriname, United Kingdom

E-visa — 29

Albania, Australia, Bahrain, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Moldova, Mongolia, Oman, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam

Visa required — 90

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Venezuela, Yemen