How long can I stay in Thailand without a visa?
Short answer: From 15 September 2026, 30 days per visit for the 60 visa-exempt nationalities (including the EU, UK, US, Canada, Australia, and India), extendable once by 30 days at an immigration office. Until 14 September 2026 the old 60-day exemption still applies, and anyone admitted on or before that date keeps the 60 days stamped at entry.
It depends on when you enter
Thailand is in the middle of a changeover. The Cabinet approved a cut to the visa exemption on 19 May 2026, the Ministry of Interior announcements were published in the Royal Gazette on 31 August 2026, and they take effect 15 days later. That gives two regimes:
- Admitted on or before 14 September 2026: 60 days visa-free (the scheme that ran since July 2024, covering 93 nationalities). Your stamped date stands even if it runs past the changeover.
- Admitted from 15 September 2026: 30 days visa-free for 60 nationalities; 15 days for Mauritius and Seychelles; visa on arrival (15 days) only for Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Serbia.
The number that matters is the date stamped in your passport at entry. Immigration counts your permitted stay from the day you arrive; you must leave or extend on or before that date.
Who gets the 30 days
The final list covers 60 countries and territories — all 27 EU member states, the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, and most of the rest of the previous 93. If your passport was on the 60-day list, check it is still on the 30-day one: about a third of nationalities dropped off and now need a visa in advance. Separate bilateral agreements (90 days for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and South Korea, for example) continue to apply where they exist and can be more generous than the exemption.
Staying longer than 30 days
- 1Extend once in-country: a single 30-day extension (form TM.7, 1,900 THB) at any Thai Immigration office, applied for before your stamped date. That takes a visa-exempt visit to about 60 days.
- 2Get a tourist visa (TR) before you fly: 60 days at entry, extendable by 30, for a 90-day stay.
- 3For longer, look at the Destination Thailand Visa (DTV) for remote workers and long-stay visitors, or a non-immigrant category that fits your purpose.
Leaving and coming straight back is the tactic officers watch for. By air there is no written annual cap, but immigration has discretion to refuse back-to-back visa-exempt entries that look like living in Thailand on tourist status. At land borders the new rules make the cap explicit: two visa-exempt entries per calendar year (Malaysians, Bruneians, Indonesians, and Singaporeans are exempt from that cap).
Counting the days
Your entry day is day one. A 30-day stamp on a 1 October arrival means you must leave by 30 October, not 31. The extension adds 30 days to the stamped date, not to the day you apply — so applying early costs you nothing. Overstays are fined per day and, past 90 days, bring entry bans, so treat the stamped date as hard. If you move between several countries in a year, Thailand's days also feed a separate question — its 180-day tax residency test — which counts every day in the country across the calendar year regardless of visa status.
If you are already planning around 60 days
Trips that begin on or before 14 September 2026 are unaffected: you get the 60-day stamp and can still add the 30-day extension. Trips beginning on 15 September or later get 30. If your itinerary straddles the date, your entry date decides, not your booking date. The full Thailand visa exemption guide tracks the change, the eligible-country list, and what changed for visa on arrival.
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- Counts arrival and departure days correctly
- Runs alongside your other visa, tax, and residency rules
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