Passport guide · MW
Visa requirements for Malawi passport holders
Citizens of Malawi can visit 33 of 182 destinations visa-free and 66 more with an eTA, eVisa or visa on arrival.
Last checked . Policies change. Confirm with the embassy or official visa portal before you travel.
33
Visa-free
4
eTA
18
Visa on arrival
3
Pre-approval + VOA
41
eVisa
83
Embassy / VFS
Visa-free
No visa needed — just go- Antigua and Barbuda30 days
- Bahamas90 days
- Barbados180 days
- Belize30 days
- Benin90 days
- Botswana90 days
- Dominica180 days
- Ecuador90 days
- Fiji120 days
- Gambia90 days
- Grenada90 days
- Haiti90 days
- Jamaica180 days
- Kiribati30 days
- Lesotho90 days
- Malaysia30 days
- Mauritius90 days
- Micronesia30 days
- Mozambique30 days
- Namibia90 days
- Philippines30 days
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines30 days
- Samoa90 days
- Singapore30 days
- South Africa30 days
- Tanzania90 days
- Togo30 days
- Trinidad and Tobago90 days
- Uganda90 days
- Vanuatu120 days
- Zambia90 days
- Zimbabwe90 days
eTA
Electronic travel authorization (online)Visa on arrival
Get your visa at the borderPre-approval + VOA
Approve online, collect at arrivaleVisa
Fully online — no office visit- Afghanistan30 days
- Albania
- Bahrain14 days
- Bhutan90 days
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon30 days
- Chad90 days
- Colombia90 days
- Cuba30 days
- Djibouti31 days
- DR Congo90 days
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon30 days
- Georgia90 days
- Guinea90 days
- India60 days
- Iraq30 days
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait30 days
- Kyrgyzstan30 days
- Laos30 days
- Libya
- Mauritania30 days
- Moldova90 days
- Mongolia30 days
- Morocco30 days
- New Zealand90 days
- Nicaragua90 days
- Nigeria30 days
- Pakistan30 days
- Papua New Guinea30 days
- Qatar30 days
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Somalia30 days
- South Sudan
- Syria30 days
- Tajikistan
- Thailand60 days
- United Arab Emirates30 days
- Venezuela
- Vietnam90 days
Embassy / VFS
In-person at an embassy or visa center- Algeria30 days
- Andorra90 days
- Argentina90 days
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan30 days
- Bangladesh90 days
- Belarus30 days
- Belgium90 days
- Bosnia and Herzegovina30 days
- Brazil
- Brunei30 days
- Bulgaria90 days
- Canada180 days
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chile
- China
- Costa Rica30 days
- Croatia90 days
- Cyprus90 days
- Czech Republic90 days
- Denmark90 days
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt30 days
- Eritrea
- Estonia90 days
- Eswatini30 days
- Finland90 days
- France90 days
- Germany90 days
- Greece90 days
- Guatemala90 days
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Hungary90 days
- Indonesia
- Ireland90 days
- Italy90 days
- Japan30 days
- Latvia
- Lebanon30 days
- Liberia30 days
- Liechtenstein90 days
- Luxembourg90 days
- Mali30 days
- Malta90 days
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Monaco90 days
- Montenegro
- Myanmar28 days
- Nauru
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia90 days
- Norway90 days
- Oman10 days
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru183 days
- Poland90 days
- Portugal90 days
- Republic of the Congo30 days
- Romania90 days
- Russia30 days
- San Marino90 days
- Saudi Arabia90 days
- Serbia90 days
- Slovakia90 days
- Slovenia90 days
- Solomon Islands
- Switzerland90 days
- Tonga30 days
- Tunisia30 days
- Türkiye90 days
- Turkmenistan30 days
- Ukraine90 days
- United States180 days
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan30 days
- Vatican City
- Yemen
What the categories mean
- Visa-freeNo visa needed — just go
- eTAElectronic travel authorization (online)
- Visa on arrivalGet your visa at the border
- Pre-approval + VOAApprove online, collect at arrival
- eVisaFully online — no office visit
- Embassy / VFSIn-person at an embassy or visa center
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