Thailand: visa, passport and entry requirements
Passport · Passport validity: 6 months
Entry document
- ✓Passport
- ✕National ID card
Passport validity
6 months
must have an ‘expiry date’ at least 6 months after the date you arrive and have at least 1 blank page
Visa
Depends on length of stay
From 15 September 2026, if entering Thailand under the visa exemption scheme, you can stay for up to 30 days for tourism only. Visa-exempt entry does not cover business travel. Visa-exempt entry for tourism through land-border immigration checkpoints is normally limited to 2 entries per calendar year. This restriction does not generally apply to arrivals by air. If you plan to work, study, retire or live in Thailand, you must get the appropriate visa before you travel. — Up to 30 days for tourism under the visa exemption scheme (from 15 September 2026). — Not specified, but proof of sufficient funds (at least 10,000 Thai baht per person or 20,000 Thai baht per family) may be required.
Entry formality
Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC)
Official portal, free, a few minutes
Fill it in within the 72 hours before arrival, not earlier
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.
Vaccination required on entry
yellow fever
if you’re coming from a country listed as a transmission risk
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 ↗