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Italy visa rules for Canada passport holders

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

The answer

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

Entry
Visa-free
Stay
90 days per entry
Limit
90 days within 180 days
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Tourist entry
ONE TIME LIVIN’VISA-FREE90 DAYS

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Official source

eur-lex.europa.euEuropean Union (EUR-Lex), consolidated Regulation (EU) 2018/1806Checked 28 Oct 2026

ANNEX II LIST OF THIRD COUNTRIES WHOSE NATIONALS ARE EXEMPT FROM THE REQUIREMENT TO BE IN POSSESSION OF A VISA WHEN CROSSING THE EXTERNAL BORDERS OF THE MEMBER STATES FOR STAYS OF NO MORE THAN 90 DAYS IN ANY 180-DAY PERIOD 1. STATES former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ( 6 ) Andorra United Arab Emirates ( 7 ) Antigua and Barbuda Albania (6) Argentina Australia Bosnia and Herzegovina (6) Barbados Brunei Brazil Bahamas Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica (7) Micronesia (7) Grenada (7) Georgia ( 8 ) Guatemala Honduras Israel Japan Kiribati (7) Saint Kitts and Nevis South Korea Saint Lucia (7) Monaco Moldova ( 9 ) Montenegro ( 10 ) Marshall Islands ( 11 ) Mauritius Mexico Malaysia Nicaragua Nauru (11) New Zealand Panama Peru (11) Palau (11) Paraguay ▼M5 Serbia (including holders of Serbian passports issued by the Serbian Coordination Directorate (in Serbian: Koordinaciona uprava ( 12 ) ▼B Solomon Islands Seychelles Singapore San Marino El Salvador Timor-Leste (11) Tonga (11) Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu (11) Ukraine ( 13 ) ▼M1 United Kingdom (excluding British nationals as referred to in Part 3) ▼B United States Uruguay Holy See Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (11) Venezuela ▼M6 ----- ▼B Samoa

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Before you go

Passport validity

Your passport must be valid for at least 3 months.

the residual period of validity of the travel document shall be at least three months after the intended date of departure from the territory of the Schengen States

Tourist entry only

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

The other way round

What Italy passport holders need to visit Canada.

Italy passport Canada

ETA needed before travel · 6 months

Fee
CA$7.00
Maximum stay
Up to 6 months

eTA-required countries or territories Andorra Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belgium British citizen British national overseas British overseas citizen (re-admissible to the United Kingdom) British overseas territory citizen with citizenship through birth, descent, naturalization or registration in one of the British overseas territories of Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn Island Saint Helena Turks and Caicos Islands British subject with a right of abode in the United Kingdom Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (must have a passport issued by Hong Kong SAR) Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel (must have a national Israeli passport) Italy Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands New Zealand Norway Papua New Guinea Poland Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea Romania (electronic passport holders only) Samoa San Marino Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan (must have an ordinary passport issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan that includes the personal identification number) United Arab Emirates Vatican City State (must have a passport or travel document issued by the Vatican)

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Visa-free nearby

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

  1. Vatican CityVatican City, about 0 km from RomeVisa-free · 90 days
  2. San MarinoSan Marino, about 230 km from RomeVisa-free · 30 days
  3. MonacoMonaco, about 460 km from RomeVisa-free · 90 days
  4. SloveniaLjubljana, about 490 km from RomeVisa-free · 90 days
  5. CroatiaZagreb, about 520 km from RomeVisa-free · 90 days

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

Weather in Rome

Average high and low temperature and rainfall in Rome, month by month.

  1. JanHigh 13.2°CLow 5.2°CRain 70 mm
  2. FebHigh 13.5°CLow 4.8°CRain 66 mm
  3. MarHigh 15.7°CLow 6.7°CRain 58 mm
  4. AprHigh 18.2°CLow 9.1°CRain 55 mm
  5. MayHigh 22.4°CLow 12.9°CRain 37 mm
  6. JunHigh 26.4°CLow 16.7°CRain 18 mm
  7. JulHigh 28.9°CLow 19.4°CRain 13 mm
  8. AugHigh 29.5°CLow 19.9°CRain 23 mm
  9. SepHigh 26.0°CLow 17.0°CRain 86 mm
  10. OctHigh 22.2°CLow 13.8°CRain 103 mm
  11. NovHigh 17.8°CLow 10.1°CRain 115 mm
  12. DecHigh 14.2°CLow 6.3°CRain 74 mm

Bar and large number: average high, °CSmaller number: average low, °Cmm: average rainfall

Averages of 26 to 30 years between 1991 and 2020, computed by One Time Livin’.

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