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São Tomé and Príncipe passport: visa rules for 198 destinations
Where you can go with this passport, sorted by what you need to do before you travel.
Without an embassy visit (visa-free, on arrival or eTA): 61 destinations. Rank 140 of 197 passports.
- Visa-free
- Visa on arrival · eTA
- e-Visa
- Visa required · No admission
Visa-free 25
- AngolaUp to 30 days
- BahamasUp to 90 days
- BarbadosUp to 90 days
- BeninUp to 90 days
- Costa RicaUp to 30 days
- DominicaUp to 21 days
- EcuadorUp to 90 days
- El SalvadorUp to 180 days
- GambiaUp to 90 days
- GuatemalaUp to 90 days
- HaitiUp to 90 days
- HondurasUp to 90 days
- Hong KongUp to 14 days
- KosovoUp to 90 days
- MalaysiaUp to 30 days
- MicronesiaUp to 30 days
- NicaraguaUp to 90 days
- Palestine
- PanamaUp to 90 days
- PhilippinesUp to 30 days
- RwandaUp to 90 days
- Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesUp to 90 days
- SeychellesUp to 90 days
- SingaporeUp to 30 days
- South AfricaUp to 90 days
Visa on arrival 34
eTA 2
e-Visa 37
- Albania
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Bahrain
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- Colombia
- Cuba
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Guinea
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Libya
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Qatar
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
Visa required 100
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Yemen
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Get the appSource: Passport Index dataset by Ilya Ilyankou (MIT), updated 18 February 2026. Always check official rules before you travel.