🇿🇦 Where can you travel visa-free with a passport of South Africa

Visa-free: 61 countries; online or on arrival (e-Visa, ETA, visa on arrival): 64 countries; visa required: 73 countries.

Confirmed by official sources: 51 of 198. The rest comes from an open dataset and is marked as such.

For a tourist trip on an ordinary passport, as of November 14, 2026. Open a country for the length of stay, conditions and the source link.

Pale colours mark countries where the data comes only from the open Passport Index dataset and has not yet been checked against the country's official source; gray means no data at all. The dataset value is shown in the list below and on the country page.

For reference only, not legal advice. Before travelling, check the official source of the destination country. Privacy