Canada PR Physical Presence Calculator
Keeping Canadian permanent residence requires 730 days in Canada within every rolling 5-year window. Enter your trips abroad and an assessment date (today, or a planned border crossing or card renewal); the tool shows exactly where you stand. The full rule guide covers the exemptions that let some days abroad count.
1 · Your trips outside Canada
Add every trip outside Canada during the qualifying window. The days you depart and return count as days inside — only whole days away count as absences, which matches how the authorities count.
2 · The window
3 · Where you stand
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A rolling obligation, not a one-time test
- Every day is an assessment day. The window slides: being compliant today doesn't guarantee next year if you keep travelling. Long-term, 730-in-5 means averaging at least 146 days a year in Canada.
- Travel days count as days in Canada — the day you leave and the day you return both count, so the calculator credits them.
- Some absences count as presence: abroad with a Canadian-citizen spouse, or working abroad full-time for a Canadian business — those exemption days aren't in this count, so add them on top if they apply to you.
Frequently asked questions
730 days (2 years) within every rolling 5-year period. The days don't need to be consecutive, and for PRs of less than 5 years the question is whether meeting 730 is still possible in your first 5 years — enter your PR date and the calculator applies that test.
Yes, in specific cases: accompanying a Canadian-citizen spouse or common-law partner (or, for a child, a Canadian-citizen parent), being employed full-time abroad by a Canadian business or the federal or a provincial public service, or accompanying a PR spouse, common-law partner, or (for a child) parent who is so employed. Those days count as if you were in Canada — add them mentally on top of this calculator's count.
Whenever you're 'examined' — at a border crossing, a PR card renewal, or a travel document application. Once you've been a PR for 5 years, it's the 5 years immediately before that moment, which is why the assessment date input matters: your compliance changes day by day. Before then, the question is whether you can still reach 730 days in the 5 years after you became a PR (IRPA s.28(2)(b)).
An officer can report you and begin the process of ending your PR status — commonly at a port of entry or PR card renewal. You can appeal on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but the safer play is to return while you can still accumulate 730 within the window and stay put until compliant.
No — citizenship needs 1,095 days in 5 years (physically present, with a half-day credit for pre-PR time), measured back from your application date. It's a stricter total with different counting; use the Canada citizenship days calculator for that one.
Your entries are saved only in your own browser (localStorage). We do record usage events that aren't linked to your name, including the day total and the result category the calculator shows, but not the dates of your trips.
Keep the day record this rule needsin
Bounded
- Logs your days in each country automatically
- Exports a dated travel report when you need evidence
- Records border-crossing days in both countries
- Runs alongside your other visa, tax, and residency rules
Sources
For information only. This calculator is a planning aid based on publicly available rules, not tax, legal, or immigration advice. Border officers and tax authorities make the final call — always confirm with the official sources linked above and a qualified professional before acting.