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Botswana visa rules for Canada passport holders

Other passports: see the rules for every passport visiting Botswana.

The answer

Yes. Canada passport holders can visit Botswana visa-free for up to 90 days.

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Visa-free
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90 days per entry
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Tourist entry
ONE TIME LIVIN’VISA-FREE90 DAYS

Our summary of the official rule. Not an official stamp.

Official source

botswanaembassy.orgEmbassy of the Republic of Botswana in Washington, D.C.Checked 30 Oct 2026

Angola Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belgium Belize Brazil Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Canada Chile Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Estonia Finland France Gambia Germany Greece Grenada Guyana Holy Sea Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Latvia Lesotho Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mexico Monaco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Samoa San Marico Saudi Arabia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea (Republic of) South Sudan Spain St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & the Grenadines Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Turkey Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe

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Before you go

The conditions that come with this rule, from its official sources.

Conditions from official sources

  • Stays may not total more than 90 days in a calendar year.

Passport validity

Your passport must be valid for at least 6 months.

all visitors entering Botswana must hold a passport that is valid for at least six months

Tourist entry only

These rules cover tourist visits. Work, study and transit follow other rules.

The other way round

What Botswana passport holders need to visit Canada.

Botswana passport Canada

Visa needed

Visa-required countries or territories Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda (Some citizens of Antigua and Barbuda may be eligible for an electronic travel authorization [eTA] if they meet certain requirements .) Argentina (Some citizens of Argentina may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Botswana Brazil (Some citizens of Brazil may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon, Republic of Cabo Verde Central African Republic Chad China, People's Republic of Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Costa Rica, Republic of (Some citizens of Costa Rica may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Cuba Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia (Some citizens of Indonesia may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Iran Iraq Israel (Travellers must have a valid Israeli "Travel Document in Lieu of National Passport".) Ivory Coast Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, North Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Macao Special Administrative Region Madagascar Malawi Malaysia (Some citizens of Malaysia may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Maldives Islands Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico (Some citizens of Mexico may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Micronesia, Fed. States Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco (Some citizens of Morocco may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Macedonia Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama (Some citizens of Panama may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Paraguay Peru Philippines (Some citizens of the Philippines may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Romania (holder of a non-electronic passport, such as a temporary passport) Russia Rwanda Sao Tomé e Principe Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal Serbia Seychelles (Some citizens of the Seychelles may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka St. Kitts and Nevis (Some citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) St. Lucia (Some citizens of St. Lucia may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) St. Vincent and the Grenadines (St. Vincent) (Some citizens of St. Vincent and the Grenadines may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Sudan Suriname Syria Taiwan (Travellers must have a passport other than an ordinary passport issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan that includes the personal identification number.) Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand (Some citizens of Thailand may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago (Some citizens of Trinidad and Tobago may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Tunisia Türkiye Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine Uruguay (Some citizens of Uruguay may be eligible for an eTA if they meet certain requirements .) Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

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Visa-free nearby

Other places Canada passport holders can visit without a visa, within 2,500 km of Gaborone, nearest first.

  1. South AfricaPretoria, about 260 km from GaboroneVisa-free · 90 days
  2. LesothoMaseru, about 540 km from GaboroneVisa-free · 14 days
  3. EswatiniMbabane, about 560 km from GaboroneVisa-free · 30 days
  4. ZambiaLusaka, about 1,060 km from GaboroneVisa-free · 90 days
  5. AngolaLuanda, about 2,210 km from GaboroneVisa-free · 30 days

We list only countries whose rules we have reviewed. More appear as we review them.

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