Visa Freedom Index 2026

Every passport, weighted by destination mobility — not just visa-free count.

3.8M

Passport × destination pairs

Full grid scored every quarter.

210

Destinations covered

Aligned with Travel Buddy API coverage.

0.85

Correlation with Henley

Agrees on broad strokes, diverges on weighting.

Top 5 — 2026

Singapore · Germany · New Zealand · Japan · South Korea. NZ's rise is driven by the weighted GDP metric: it unlocks a broader spread of high-GDP destinations than JP, which is heavy on Asia-only.

Biggest movers

Maldives (+7), UAE (+4), Türkiye (+3). Maldives benefited from new reciprocal agreements with Schengen and ASEAN blocs in late 2025.

Methodology notes

Unlike Henley, we don't weight each destination equally. A visa-free to Nauru and a visa-free to Japan are not equivalent travel unlocks.