Ethiopia: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: at least 6 months after the date of arrival
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
at least 6 months after the date of arrival
Must be machine-readable.
Visa
Required
Apply online for tourist and business visas before arrival via the official Ethiopian e-visa platform. Journalists need media arrival entry clearance via the Arrival Clearance Portal. — 30 days single entry for tourist visa, with possible extension of 30 or 90 days.
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Vaccination required on entry
Yellow fever
Required if arriving from a country with a risk of yellow fever transmission
Yellow fever risk areas (WHO list)
Africa: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad*, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia*, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya*, Liberia, Mali*, Mauritania*, Niger*, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan*, Togo, Uganda
Americas: Argentina*, Bolivia*, Brazil*, Colombia*, Ecuador*, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama*, Paraguay*, Peru*, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago*, Venezuela*
* only in parts of the country
A country may apply its own list: the official text above prevails.
Source: WHO, International Travel and Health, Annex 1, 18 November 2022, revised 3 January 2023 ↗
Recommended vaccinations
Hepatitis A · Typhoid · Malaria · Dengue · Schistosomiasis · Zika virus · Mpox
Recommended for areas up to 2,000 meters above sea level: Malaria; Present in most lakes; check before swimming: Schistosomiasis