Do you need a visa for Botswana with a Australian passport?

Q: Do you need a visa for Botswana with a Australian passport?

Visa-free entry. 90 days. Applications go through Department of Immigration and Citizenship. It is the only source that counts.

Entry right

Botswana, on a Australian passport

Visa-free entry.

Length of stay — 90 days.

All visa-free countries with a Australian passport

What changed

Unchanged between the 12 January 2025 and 17 February 2026 datasets: visa-free, 90 days.

The official portal

Applications go through Department of Immigration and Citizenship. It is the only source that counts.

Open the official portal

Staying longer

No dedicated nomad stay scheme is documented in this country.

The other way round

A Botswana passport travelling to Australia: e-visa online.

See the reverse page

Same region, same passport

Southern Africa: with a Australian passport, 5 of the 8 other countries in the region open visa-free or with a simple online authorisation.

Visa-free (5): Eswatini (30 d), Lesotho, Malawi (30 d), South Africa (90 d), Zambia (90 d)
Visa on arrival (3): Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Once you are there

The country guide What a stay costs When to go

Cities rated for working there

Francistown 74 Gaborone 74 Kanye 74 Maun 74 Serowe 74

The same country, on another passport

France Belgium Switzerland Luxembourg Monaco Morocco Algeria Tunisia

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What this page does not replace

Entry rules change often, sometimes overnight. This record gives the known state, with its source; it does not replace checking with the destination’s embassy or consulate, the only authority on the day you leave.

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