Peru — Tourist Stay: 183 Days per 365 from First Entry

Summary

Limit

183 days

Window

365 days from your first entry

Accumulation

Consecutive or added across entries

Extendable

Only up to 183 if granted less (DL 1582)

Per-entry grant

Officer's discretion, often 90 days

Overstay

0.1% of a UIT per day of excess

Basis

DL 1350 + Reglamento DS 007-2017-IN, art. 77.2

Authority

Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones

Peru allows a tourist 183 days — consecutive or accumulated across several entries — inside a 365-day period counted from the first entry. This is not a calendar year, and it is not a rolling window: the clock is anchored to your arrival date. The number the officer stamps in your passport is often smaller than the legal cap; a shorter grant can be extended up to 183 days, but never beyond. Set this counter’s window start to your first entry; when the 365 days lapse, start a new one at your next entry.

Who it applies to

This matters most if you are:

• A long-term traveller basing yourself in Cusco, Lima or Arequipa between trips around South America.
• Someone making repeated shorter visits whose days are quietly adding up across the year.
• A remote worker treating Peru as a seasonal base without a formal visa.
• A visitor who has been stamped for 90 days and assumed that was the whole allowance — or assumed a border run would reset it.

Citizens of Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador have an additional route under the Andean migration statute and should read the extension note below rather than treating this as their only option.

The rule — and why it exists

Article 77.2 of the Reglamento to Legislative Decree 1350, in the consolidated text published by Migraciones itself (June 2023 edition), sets the tourist mechanic:

“El plazo de otorgamiento y de permanencia es de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días consecutivos o de periodos de días que sumados den un resultado de ciento ochenta y tres (183) días dentro de un año, contado desde su primer ingreso al territorio peruano. Estos plazos no son prorrogables.”

Article 29.1(h) of DL 1350, as rewritten by Decreto Legislativo 1582 in November 2023, now reads: “El plazo de permanencia es de hasta ciento ochenta y tres (183) días calendario, acumulables durante un período de trescientos sesenta y cinco (365) días, este periodo se computa desde su primer ingreso regular al territorio peruano […]. En caso de otorgarse un plazo de permanencia menor a los ciento ochenta y tres (183) días calendario, se otorga prórroga hasta completar dicho plazo” — up to 183 calendar days, accumulable across a 365-day period counted from your first regular entry, with an extension up to 183 where less was granted (unless a visa-waiver agreement sets a lower limit or excludes extensions). Where the Reglamento's “no son prorrogables” conflicts with that later legislative text, the decree prevails; how Migraciones processes the top-up in practice is worth confirming before you rely on it.

Three features fall out of that wording:

• The window is entry-anchored. “Contado desde su primer ingreso” — counted from your first entry. Two travellers arriving in different months have different windows.
• Days accumulate. Separate visits add together inside the window. Exiting does not reset anything.
• No extension beyond 183. A shorter grant can be topped up to 183 days, but the only lawful way past 183 days in the window is a different migration category.

Why it exists: the entry-anchored year is a compromise between per-entry stamping (easy to abuse with border runs) and a calendar year (arbitrary, and generous to anyone arriving in July). Anchoring to first entry gives every visitor the same allowance measured from the same event in their own trip.

Counting the days

1. 1Set the window start to your first entry into Peru. Everything is measured from that date, for 365 days.
2. 2Add up every day of presence inside that window, across all entries — consecutive or not.
3. 3Stay at or under 183. The cap is the allowance itself, so the breach falls on day 184.
4. 4The number stamped at the border is often lower than 183. Your lawful stay for that entry is the stamped period unless Migraciones extends it; the 183 is the ceiling across the whole window.
5. 5When the 365 days lapse, the old window is finished. Start a fresh counter from your next entry into Peru.

Bounded tracks the legal cap, not the days written in your passport. Those two can diverge — an officer who stamps 90 days has given you 90, regardless of how much of the 183 is unused. Check the stamp every time, and treat this counter as the ceiling you cannot exceed rather than the permission you hold.

Examples

Example 1 — one long stay

Clara enters on 1 March and stays 150 days. Her 365-day window runs to 28 February the following year, and she has 33 days left inside it. A trip back in December would have to fit in those 33 days, whatever the officer stamps on arrival.

Example 2 — the border run that does not work

Ben enters in January, spends 90 days, crosses to Bolivia for a week, and comes back expecting a fresh 90. His days accumulate: he has 93 left in the window, not 183. A new stamp of 90 days is lawful, but the cap is what binds — he can use at most 93 more days before the window lapses.

Example 3 — the new window

Alicia first entered on 10 June 2025 and used 183 days by March 2026. Her 365-day window ends on 9 June 2026. She re-enters on 20 July 2026: that entry opens a new 365-day period counted from 20 July, and she starts a new counter.

Exceptions & edge cases

• Andean Community citizens. Citizens of Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador can apply (online or in person) for an extension under the Estatuto Migratorio Andino of up to 90 days, at Migraciones' discretion and never past 180 calendar days in a year. That is a different regime from the tourist plazo, with its own ceiling.
• Officer discretion at the border. The stamped period is what authorises your stay for that entry. Fewer days than expected is common and is not appealable at the booth.
• Overstay fines. 0.1% of one UIT per day of excess, settled on departure. With the 2026 UIT at S/ 5,500 that is S/ 5.50 a day. Small per day, but it accrues and it is on record.
• Tax residency is a separate test. More than 183 days of presence within a twelve-month period can make you a Peruvian tax resident under the Income Tax Law — a different rule, a different window, and not something this counter computes.
• Other migration categories. Business, worker, student, rentista and family categories each have their own plazos. If you need more than 183 days, the route is a category change, not an extension.
• The window reset is manual. The rule that a new period opens at your next entry after the old one lapses is the natural reading of “contado desde su primer ingreso” rather than a sentence of quoted statute — which is why Bounded asks you to start a new counter rather than rolling it over silently.

Common misconceptions

• "It is 183 days per calendar year." No — a 365-day period counted from your first entry.
• "It is 183 days per entry." No — days accumulate across entries inside the window.
• "I will get 183 days at the airport." Usually not. 90 days is a common stamp, and the stamp governs that entry.
• "I can extend past 183 days." No. Since DL 1582 a shorter grant can be extended up to 183 days, but nothing extends a tourist beyond 183 in the window. Andean Community citizens have their own extension route, capped at 180 days a year.
• "A short hop to Bolivia resets the clock." It does not. Only the lapse of the 365-day window opens a new period.

Related: Argentina’s tourist stay works on a per-entry basis with one extension — a useful contrast if you are moving between the two.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones — "MIGRACIONES: Ley y Reglamento" (DL 1350 + Reglamento DS 007-2017-IN, art. 77.2)
• El Peruano — Decreto Legislativo N.º 1582 (14 Nov 2023), rewriting DL 1350 art. 29.1(h), the tourist category
• El Peruano — Decreto Supremo N.º 301-2025-EF (UIT 2026: S/ 5,500)
• SUNAT — Informe N.º 114-2019-SUNAT/340000 (quoting the tourist plazo)
• Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones — TUPA (DS 008-2023-IN): "Prórroga de Permanencia de Turista por Estatuto Migratorio Andino"
• gob.pe (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) — Tourist visa: extensions requested from Migraciones before the period ends