Mexico: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: Valid for the duration of your stay (recommended at least 180 days).
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
Valid for the duration of your stay (recommended at least 180 days).
Must be valid for the duration of your stay. The Mexican Embassy recommends passports be valid for at least 180 days. — Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) or correct visa may be required if travelling through the USA.
Visa
Not required
Your whole journey
Stopovers aren’t in our pages yet: the Sherpa link checks them for your nationality.
Passport, visa and stopovers: check on Sherpa ↗Free tool, pre-filled for a British passport: change the nationality if needed.
Recommended vaccinations
Hepatitis A · Typhoid · Yellow fever
Check the latest vaccine recommendations for Mexico: Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Yellow fever
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 ↗