Visa-Free Countries for Chinese citizens (2026)
A Chinese passport enters 55 countries visa-free, gets a visa on arrival in 27 more, and an eTA in 5 — 87 of 198 destinations you can reach without arranging a visa before you go. 38 need an e-visa applied for online, and 73 need a consular visa. As of 20 July 2026.
- 55
- VISA-FREE
- 5
- ETA
- 27
- VISA ON ARRIVAL
- 38
- E-VISA
- 73
- VISA REQUIRED
Counts are for a standard tourist passport, from our open visa-matrix dataset, which cross-checks Wikipedia against a second source and records every disagreement rather than picking one silently. This is a starting point, not legal advice — a rule can change between snapshots, so confirm the current requirement with the destination's official source before you book. Rows marked ⚑ disputed are corridors where our two sources disagree; treat those as "verify first".
Visa-free 55
Walk up to the border with just your passport. No form, no fee, no advance step.
- Albania90d
- Andorra⚑
- Angola30d
- Antigua and Barbuda30d
- Armenia90d
- Australia4d⚑
- Azerbaijan30d
- Bahamas90d
- Barbados30d
- Belarus30d
- Benin30d
- Bosnia and Herzegovina90d
- Brazil30d⚑
- Brunei14d
- Cambodia14d⚑
- Cuba90d
- Dominica30d
- Fiji120d
- Georgia30d
- Grenada30d
- Haiti90d
- Iran21d
- Jamaica30d
- Kazakhstan30d
- Kiribati90d
- Kyrgyzstan21d⚑
- Malaysia30d
- Maldives30d
- Mauritius90d
- Micronesia30d
- Morocco90d
- Norway⚑
- Oman14d⚑
- Palestine
- Philippines14d⚑
- Qatar30d⚑
- Russia30d
- Saint Lucia42d
- Samoa30d
- San Marino90d⚑
- Serbia30d
- Seychelles90d
- Singapore30d
- Solomon Islands30d⚑
- Suriname30d
- Tajikistan14d⚑
- Thailand60d
- Tonga30d⚑
- Tunisia90d
- Turkey90d⚑
- United Arab Emirates90d
- Uruguay90d⚑
- Uzbekistan30d
- Vanuatu30d
- Zambia30d
Electronic authorisation (eTA) 5
Visa-free in practice, but you must register an eTA online before you fly. Minutes, not weeks.
- Kenya90d
- Mozambique30d
- Saint Kitts and Nevis90d
- South Africa90d⚑
- Sri Lanka30d⚑
Visa on arrival 27
Nothing to arrange in advance — the visa is issued at the border, usually for a fee.
- Bahrain14d
- Bangladesh30d
- Burma28d
- Burundi30d
- Cabo Verde30d
- Comoros45d
- East Timor30d
- Egypt30d
- Ethiopia90d
- Guinea-Bissau90d
- Indonesia30d
- Jordan
- Laos30d
- Lebanon30d
- Madagascar60d
- Nauru90d⚑
- Nepal90d
- Palau30d
- Rwanda30d
- Sao Tome and Principe15d
- Saudi Arabia90d
- Senegal30d
- Sierra Leone30d
- Sudan60d⚑
- Tanzania90d
- Tuvalu30d
- Zimbabwe30d
E-visa (apply online first) 38
You must apply and be approved online before departure. Not a border formality.
- Afghanistan30d⚑
- Bhutan
- Botswana90d
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Djibouti90d⚑
- DR Congo7d
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon90d
- Ghana⚑
- Guinea90d
- Guyana
- Iraq30d
- Ivory Coast90d⚑
- Japan15d
- Lesotho⚑
- Libya
- Malawi30d⚑
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia30d
- Namibia90d
- Nicaragua⚑
- Nigeria90d
- Pakistan90d
- Papua New Guinea30d⚑
- Somalia30d
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Togo15d
- Trinidad and Tobago⚑
- Uganda90d
- Ukraine30d
- Venezuela⚑
- Vietnam90d
Visa required 73
A consular visa is needed before travel — start early.
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Austria
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bolivia⚑
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chile
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador⚑
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Finland
- France
- Gambia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel⚑
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Macedonia
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Korea
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea⚑
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Turkmenistan
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vatican
- Yemen