Visa requirements for Benin

Most visitors need an e-Visa for Benin, applied for online before travel. 54 enter visa-free. For 12 passports, no official source publishes the rule.

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Rules by passport

Visa-free (54)

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Chad
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
the Central African Republic
the Comoros
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
the Gambia
the Republic of the Congo
the Seychelles
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Checked against Government of the Republic of Benin (gouv.bj), Benin e-Visa portal (official) on October 10, 2026.

E-Visa (133)

Afghanistan
Albania
Andorra
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Ecuador
El Salvador
Estonia
Fiji
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Guyana
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Malta
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Myanmar
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Nicaragua
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
the Dominican Republic
the Maldives
the Marshall Islands
the Netherlands
the Solomon Islands
the United Kingdom
the United States
the Vatican City
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Ukraine
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen

Checked against Government of the Republic of Benin (gouv.bj), Benin e-Visa portal (official) on October 10, 2026.

No official source publishes this (12)

Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
China
Dominica
Grenada
Haiti
Hong Kong
Malaysia
Singapore
the Bahamas
the Philippines
the United Arab Emirates

No official source publishes this information.

For these passports we checked official sources and none state the visa rule, so we will not guess. What we checked for each passport:

Antigua and Barbuda: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Belize: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
China: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Dominica: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Grenada: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Haiti: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Hong Kong: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them. Hong Kong Immigration Department's official visa-free/visa-on-arrival list (immd.gov.hk) does not include Benin, contradicting secondary claims of a 14-day exemption, checked October 10, 2026
Malaysia: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
Singapore: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
the Bahamas: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
the Philippines: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026
the United Arab Emirates: Benin e-visa portal evisa.bj (exempt-list article not text-readable, checked October 10, 2026; link redirects to dei.gouv.bj homepage), checked October 10, 2026; gouv.bj article 851 (official, checked October 10, 2026; covers only the 53 African countries, 90 days visa-free), checked October 10, 2026; diplomatie.gouv.bj/voyager-sans-visa/ (unreachable, HTTP 503). Secondary sources report visa-free stays for these passports, but no government source confirms them, checked October 10, 2026

Visa fees for Benin

E-Visa fee: No official source publishes this information. Official portal advertises a visa-cost article but its text could not be retrieved; gouv.bj publishes no fee schedule. Third-party consensus citing the portal reports EUR 50 (30d single) / 75 (30d multiple) / 100 (90d multiple) - unverified. Checked: Government of Benin (official e-Visa platform), Government of the Republic of Benin (gouv.bj).

Visa fee: No official source publishes this information. No official fee schedule published for embassy-issued visas. Checked: Government of Benin (official e-Visa platform).

Processing times

E-Visa processing time: No official source publishes this information. No processing SLA published on the portal's readable pages. Checked: Government of Benin (official e-Visa platform).

Apply through official channels

Start the official e-Visa platform

Government of Benin - visa entry informationVisa-required nationalities should contact Beninese diplomatic missions; no official online embassy-finder located.

Travel insurance for Benin

Travel insurance

Not required. No official source we have checked requires travel insurance to visit Benin, and none publishes a minimum coverage amount for visitors.

Some visa services claim insurance is mandatory for Benin and charge you for a policy. We found no official rule behind those claims, so we will not present it as one. Insurance may still be a sensible choice for your trip, but for Benin it is your choice, not an entry rule. We watch for new mandates daily, and this page will say so if one appears.

Countries that do require it: the full travel insurance requirements list.

Sources and verification

187 of 199 passport rules verified against Government of the Republic of Benin (gouv.bj), Benin e-Visa portal (official), 12 with no official source publishing the rule.

Government of the Republic of Benin (gouv.bj) (checked October 10, 2026)
Benin e-Visa portal (official) (checked October 10, 2026)

Common questions

Do I need a visa for Benin?

It depends on your passport. 54 of 199 passports enter Benin visa-free; 133 need a visa or authorisation arranged in advance. Find your passport in the groups above.

Do I need travel insurance for Benin?

No verified requirement. No official source we have checked requires travel insurance to visit Benin, and none publishes a minimum coverage amount for visitors. Some visa services claim it is mandatory and charge for a policy; we found no official rule behind those claims.

Why do some passports say no official source publishes the rule?

We check official government sources for every route. For 12 passports, no official source states the visa rule for Benin, so instead of guessing we list exactly what we checked. Confirm with Benin's embassy or official immigration portal before you book anything.