Author: schengencalc

A rolling 180-day period means you always look back at the last 180 calendar days from today. In that slice of time, you can only have been inside the Schengen Area for up to 90 days total. Tomorrow the window “rolls” forward one day, dropping the oldest day off and adding the newest. So the…

When you enter the Schengen Area, you get a fixed number of days you’re legally allowed to stay — usually 90 days in any 180-day period if you’re visa-exempt, or whatever your visa says if you’re on a short-term visa. If you stay even one extra day past this limit, it’s called an overstay. Overstaying…