Visa requirements for Croatian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Croatia. As of 1 January 2017, Croatian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 153 countries and territories, ranking the Croatian passport 21st in terms of travel freedom (tied with Romanian passport) according to the Henley visa restrictions index.
Visa requirements for Croatian citizens for visits to various territories, disputed areas and restricted zones:
Europe
Abkhazia — Visa required.
Mount Athos — Special permit required (4 days: 25 euro for Orthodox visitors, 35 euro for non-Orthodox visitors, 18 euro for students). There is a visitors' quota: maximum 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox per day and women are not allowed.
Crimea — Visa issued by Russia is required.
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — Visa free access for 3 months. Passport required.
UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus — Access Permit is required for travelling inside the zone, except Civil Use Areas.
Gibraltar — Visa not required.
Jan Mayen — permit issued by the local police required for staying for less than 24 hours and permit issued by the Norwegian police for staying for more than 24 hours.
Kosovo — visa free for 90 days.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic — Visa required (issued for single entry for 21 days/1/2/3 months or multiple entry visa for 1/2/3 months). Travellers with Nagorno-Karabakh visa (expired or valid) or evidence of travel to Nagorno-Karabakh (stamps) will be permanently denied entry to Azerbaijan.
South Ossetia — Visa free. Multiple entry visa to Russia and three-day prior notification are required to enter South Ossetia.
Transnistria — Visa free. Registration required after 24h.
Africa
British Indian Ocean Territory — special permit required.
Eritrea (outside Asmara) — visa covers Asmara only; to travel in the rest of the country, a Travel Permit for Foreigners is required (20 Eritrean nakfa).
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Ascension Island — Entry Permit must be obtained minimum 28 days in advance (3 months for 20/30 pounds sterling, single/double entry).
Saint Helena — Visitor's Pass granted on arrival valid for 4/10/21/60/90 days for 12/14/16/20/25 pound sterling.
Tristan da Cunha — Permission to land required for 15/30 pounds sterling (yacht/ship passenger) for Tristan da Cunha Island or 20 pounds sterling for Gough Island, Inaccessible Island or Nightingale Islands.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara controlled territory) — undefined visa regime.
Somaliland — visa required (30 days for 30 US dollars, payable on arrival).
Asia
Hong Kong — Visa not required for 90 days.
India — Protected Area Permit (PAP) required for all of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and parts of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. Restricted Area Permit (RAP) required for all of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep and parts of Sikkim. Some of these requirements are occasionally lifted for a year.
Macao — Visa not required for 90 days.
Taiwan — Visa not required for 90 days.
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province — OIVR permit required (15+5 Tajikistani Somoni) and another special permit (free of charge) is required for Lake Sarez.
Tibet Autonomous Region — Tibet Travel Permit required (10 US Dollars).
Korean Demilitarized Zone — restricted zone.
UNDOF Zone and Ghajar — restricted zones.
Caribbean and North Atlantic
Anguilla — Visa not required for 3 months.
Aruba — Visa not required for 30 days.
Bermuda — Visa not required.
Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba — Visa not required for 3 months.
British Virgin Islands — Visa not required.
Cayman Islands — Visa not required.
Curacao — Visa not required for 3 months.
Montserrat — Visa required.
Puerto Rico — Visa required.
Sint Maarten — Visa not required for 3 months.
Turks and Caicos Islands — Visa free for 90 days.
U.S. Virgin Islands — Visa required.
Oceania
American Samoa — Visa required (entry permit).
Ashmore and Cartier Islands — special authorisation required.
Clipperton Island — special permit required.
Cook Islands — Visa free access for 31 days.
Guam — Visa required.
Niue — Visa on arrival valid for 30 days is issued free of charge.
Pitcairn Islands — 14 days visa free and landing fee 35 USD or tax of 5 USD if not going ashore.
United States Minor Outlying Islands — special permits required for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.
South Atlantic and Antarctica
Falkland Islands — Visitor Permit valid for 4 weeks is issued on arrival.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Pre-arrival permit from the Commissioner required (72 hours/1 month for 110/160 pounds sterling).
Antarctica and adjacent islands — special permits required for British Antarctic Territory, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Argentine Antarctica, Australian Antarctic Territory, Chilean Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Peter I Island, Queen Maud Land, Ross Dependency.
Arab League — Certain countries will deny access to holders of Israeli visas or passport stamps of Israel because of the Arab League boycott of Israel.
The United States violates the visa-free reciprocity by not including several European Union countries in the Visa Waiver Program, including Croatia. On the other hand, Canada violates the visa-free reciprocity with some EU member states (namely Bulgaria and Romania), but Croatian citizens enjoy visa-free access to Canada. Some other countries unilaterally abolished a visa requirement for the EU citizens before Croatia became a member state and thus far their visa policy has not been updated to reflect this change or they introduced a visa on arrival for the EU citizens which still does not apply to the Croatian citizens (Kuwait).
Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination. Some other countries require vaccination only if the passenger is coming from an infected area.
Many countries require passport validity of no less than 6 months and one or two blank pages.
When in a non-EU country where there is no Croatian embassy, Croatian citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.
Holders of various categories of official Croatian passports have additional visa-free access to the following countries - Algeria (diplomatic passports), Azerbaijan (diplomatic or service passports), China (diplomatic, official or service passports), Cuba (diplomatic, official or service passports), Egypt (diplomatic, official, service or special passports), India (diplomatic or official passports), Indonesia (diplomatic or service passports), Iran (diplomatic or service passports), Kazakhstan (diplomatic or service passports), Russia (diplomatic and service passports), South Africa (diplomatic, official or service passports), Vietnam (diplomatic or service passports). Holders of diplomatic or service passports of any country have visa-free access to Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe.
