How to track the Schengen 90/180 rule
The Schengen short-stay rule allows at most 90 days within any rolling 180-day period across the whole Schengen Area. Because the window slides forward every day — and every member state shares one budget — it is notoriously easy to miscount. Bounded’s Schengen preset does the counting continuously against your real travel history.
Add the counter
- 1On Home, open Manage Counters (list icon) and tap +.
- 2On the Visa tab, pick Schengen Tourist Visa.
- 3Holding a residence permit in a Schengen state? Exclude that country — days in your residency country do not consume the 90/180 tourist budget.
- 4Tap Save. The counter immediately evaluates your entire history.
What the preset encodes
- 90 / 180 rolling — at most 90 days in any trailing 180-day window, counted across all Schengen members as one region.
- 90 days per visit — a continuous-stay cap alongside the rolling budget.
- Entry and exit days count in full — see how border-crossing days are counted.
The 90 and 180 are literal Schengen Borders Code numbers, so this preset’s rule is locked — a “Schengen counter” with different numbers would only look like compliance. The exclusion list stays editable, because residency genuinely changes what counts.
How many days do I have left?
The counter card answers it at a glance: 51 / 90 means 39 days remain in the current window. Tap the card for the breakdown — a segmented switch between This visit and Last 180 days, days by country, and every contributing trip. This is also where you answer “when do I get days back?”: days drop out of the count exactly 180 days after they were spent, so the oldest trip in the list is the next to expire.
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