Madagascar Visa and Entry Requirements
- Country Madagascar
- Guide Visa and Entry
- Reviewed 19 August 2026
- Length 2 min read
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Last reviewed 19 August 2026
Madagascar is straightforward to enter and awkward to research, and those two facts are worth separating before you start. The rules themselves are simple and are applied at the airport. The problem is that the government websites which ought to explain them are, at the time of writing, either unreachable or not to be trusted.
The short stay, and the fee that is not a visa
You can visit Madagascar for up to fifteen days without a visa. There is still a ten euro administration fee, payable on arrival, and you must be ready to show an onward or return ticket. That fee catches people out because it is not called a visa and is charged anyway.
For longer, buy a single entry tourist visa at the airport, for thirty or sixty days, paying in United States dollars, euros or ariary. Either can be extended inside the country to a maximum total stay of ninety days. You can also apply in advance through the Embassy of Madagascar in London.
Before you fly
Make sure your passport is actually stamped on arrival. It is the record of the day your permitted stay begins.
- A passport with an expiry date at least six months after the day you arrive.
- At least two blank pages in it.
- An onward or return ticket you can produce at the desk.
- Cash for the fee or the visa, in euros or United States dollars.
- A yellow fever certificate if you are arriving from a country with a transmission risk.
- Travel insurance covering medical treatment and repatriation.
Why this page does not link a Malagasy government site
It is worth being direct about this. The national electronic visa portal does not load. The main government domain does not resolve. Two ministry sites serve invalid security certificates. And the site that presents itself as the national tourism board is compromised: it returns a page and carries injected advertising spam for gambling, escorts and counterfeit goods.
So the authorities linked below are the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the British Embassy in Antananarivo. They are reachable, they are current, and they are what a traveler can actually use. If you hold another passport, your own foreign ministry and the Malagasy embassy accredited to your country are the equivalents.