90 day maximum stay rule in any 6 month period for visiting Schengen area - Page 2

Just use the schengen calculaor and you don't have to think. I did it for you. The amount of days you have left updates every time you put trip dates in. You can put future dates in and you can see what time you will have left.

Hi 

I appreciate this is a little out of date thread but I do have a Schengen query which is related to some websites (primarily lawyers to be honest).

A number of these websites quite clearly state that if you have used up your Schengen "allowance" of 90 days (which I will be doing on 9th August), you have to wait another 90 days before re-entering Spain.  Given that I have played about with the online Schengen calcluator and I also have an mobile phone app to count my days, and looked at the previous advice on this forum I don't this is correct

I need to come back out to Spain for around 10 days in September and I think the first of my 3 trips this years (22nd February to 6 March = 13 days), will drop off  as I believe it is a rolling 180 period.  Is this correct and are these sites wrong as basically I need to know who is telling the truth?

If I add in this "future" trip in September, the calculator says all is good and I would be able to stay 14 days and still be within the 90 day limit.

I just don't want to go ahead and book flights only to find out that I cannot get into Spain when I get off the plane in September!

PS I meant to say that even when you Google it, the first thing that appears is:- 

What is the Schengen 90/180 rule? Under the terms of Schengen, non-EEA nationals cannot spend more than a total of 90 days within a total period of 180 days without a visa. Furthermore, once you've used up your quota of 90 days, you cannot return to Schengen until 90 more days have passed."   Therefore, even more confusing!!

Many thanks in advances for any helpful responses! 

Brian

Yes. 

Rolling period of 180 consecutive days and cumulative 90 days within that. 

Hi Brido57,

Yes, you're correct, the 180 days is a rolling period, so if you want to double-check: from the last day of your planned September trip, count back 180 days and any trips before that date will, as you say, have dropped off 👍

I don't think the definitions you've included are incorrect, but they are certainly incomplete - in most definitions I've seen, insufficient emphasis is placed on the fact that the 180 days is a ROLLING period.

Kind regards, 

Kim

Hi Brido57

I too have used various Schengen calculators,I came across this one that I find really useful, as once it’s ‘calculated’ your days it gives you a date when you can return and how for many days.

As Kimmy11 says you can always double check by counting backwards.

https://www.visa-calculator.com/

Kind regards

Anne

Hi 

Many thanks to those that to the time to reply to my post re the Schengen 90/180 day rules.  So, having checked the advice from Anne, Kima and Relyat and used the 2 most useful calculators and played about with my previous dates and a future date, it all looks good!  I think the issue is caused by poor wording on the internet as I said in my post, and in particularly numerous sites that give misleading information.  My wife and I thought we were correct in assessing the rules as a rolling calendar, but when you see this misleading information it makes you 2nd guess and who is correct and who isn't!

Many thanks.

regards

Brian