About Us
Last updated: 2026-09-03
"Visa Stay Calculator" is a free, open-source tool for calculating visa stay quotas. It helps outbound business and leisure travelers quickly and accurately determine whether their stay has expired, how much longer they can stay, and when they must leave.
🛠️ Tool introduction
Different from the official system of embassies and consulates, this tool focuses on quantitative calculation of visa stay days — enter entry and exit history records to automatically calculate the compliance status, remaining quota and plan verification results under dual quotas (180-day cycle/365-day cycle).
Core functions
- • Fixed period calculation: Taking the first entry date as the starting point of the cycle, every 180-day period is ≤90 days, every 365-day period is ≤180 days, and the quota is automatically reset at the end of the period.
- • Double quota simultaneous verification: The 180-day cycle and the 365-day cycle are judged independently. If either exceeds the limit, it will be deemed to be overdue.
- • Plan verification: Enter the intended entry date, and automatically calculate the latest legal departure date, including cross-period quota reset
- • Runs entirely locally: Itinerary data is only saved locally in the browser, not uploaded to any server, no tracking, no cookies
- • Pure static deployment: No backend, no tracking scripts, fast loading, privacy friendly
📐 Algorithm Caliber
This site uses the fixed-period system: take the first entry date as the starting point of the cycle. The 180-day cycle is ≤90 days, and the 365-day cycle is ≤180 days. The quota is automatically reset at the end of the cycle. Different countries/visa types may adopt different calibers (rolling window, natural year, etc.), please refer to Rule description and Comparison of rules across countries.
📊 Data source description
The rules follow common visa stay-limit policies. Data sources include: official websites of embassies and consulates of various countries in China, announcements from visa centers, and China Consular Service Network (cs.mfa.gov.cn). For specific travel decisions, please refer to the official agency.
Source type and priority
| priority | Source type | Example |
| P1 | Official website of the embassy or consulate/immigration bureau of the destination country in China | diplo.de, gov.uk, canada.ca |
| P1 | Chinese official channels | China Consular Service Network cs.mfa.gov.cn, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| P2 | Visa center operator | VFS Global, TLScontact, China-Chile Visa |
| P3 | International Organization/Industry Report | European Commission, IATA, industry association statistics |
| refer to | Experience review | Anonymized case database (for reference only, not policy-based) |
Each country detail page is labeled with the specific source link used on that page. Policy data always follows the official source text.