Skip to content
MyVisaPort

🇲🇰 North Macedonia

North Macedonia is outside the EU and the Schengen area and sets its own visa rules. Below: visa rules for every passport, cash limits at customs and the tourist traps official travel advice warns about.

Check your visa route for North Macedonia

Pick your passport and where you live — North Macedonia is already filled in.

Visas or permits I hold (optional)

Visa rules for your passport ↓

Explore North Macedonia: things to do, shopping, food and getting around

A short guide based on UNESCO's World Heritage listings.

Places to visit

Summarised in our own words from the linked pages, official tourism boards and transport authorities first; items marked "Not official" come from other guides. Prices and opening times change, so check the source before you go. Last checked 24 Oct 2026.

Common tourist traps and how to avoid them

Scams and risky spots named in official travel advice for North Macedonia, in our own words.

  1. Child pickpocket gangs and bag snatching

    How it works: Gangs of children pickpocket and snatch bags in the main shopping and entertainment areas late at night; foreigners appear to be targeted.

    How to avoid it: Keep possessions secure, carry a copy of your passport photo page and keep the passport in a safe place.

Official advice: FCDO: no areas advised against.

Emergency numbers in North Macedonia

Paraphrased from official travel advice: FCDO travel advice – Safety and security · FCDO travel advice – Warnings and insurance · FCDO travel advice – Getting help (emergency numbers) · FCDO page updated 13 Aug 2026 · Last checked 2 Nov 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Cash you can bring in and take out

Customs rules for banknotes and other cash when you enter or leave North Macedonia.

North Macedonia customs cash control

Bringing cash in
Declare foreign cash over EUR 10,000 to customs on arrival; customs issues a written certificate.
Taking cash out
Non-residents can take out up to EUR 10,000 freely; more only with the certificate of the amount declared on entry. Residents must declare over EUR 2,000 and cannot take out more than EUR 10,000.
Local currency (MKD) in
Up to MKD 120,000; more is prohibited.
Local currency (MKD) out
Up to MKD 120,000; more is prohibited.
Foreign currency
Declare over EUR 10,000; non-resident export above EUR 10,000 only up to the amount declared on entry.
  • Not declaring: fines of EUR 1,500–3,000 for individuals; the cash is detained or seized.

Official source: customs.gov.mk · customs.gov.mk · Last checked 4 Oct 2026

North Macedonia visa rules by passport

The general rule for each passport, from official sources. Open a passport to see conditions and options that depend on where you live.

Visa-free80 passports
Embassy visa118 passports

Verified rules for North Macedonia: 195 of 198 passports; awaiting verification: 3; not yet covered: 0. A rule that is awaiting verification or not yet covered is not a negative visa decision: it only means we haven't confirmed it on an official source yet.

⚠ Unofficial sources: 4 rules for North Macedonia are not from an official North Macedonia government source (based on other governments' travel advice or secondary research). They are labelled on each page, are not counted as verified above, and should be confirmed with the embassy before travel.

Nearby destinations

Official travel advice

Suggest something for our North Macedonia guide

A place, a tip or a correction. We check every suggestion against a reliable source before anything is published.

Don't include personal details. We store the suggestion, the optional name and the page, not your email or IP address. No cookies are set. Privacy

Optional travel offers

Some links are affiliate links. Booking through them costs you nothing extra, and a small commission helps pay MyVisaPort’s ongoing hosting and maintenance costs and keeps the site free of banner ads. We only list services we think are useful, and they never affect the visa information we publish. These offers are not part of the visa guidance above and are never used to rank routes. How partner links work

Plan your trip to North Macedonia

Verify with the embassy before you book. Visa rules change without notice. We link every rule to its official source and last checked it on 2 Nov 2026, but the embassy, official e-visa portal and your airline have the final say. MyVisaPort is not a visa agent and is not affiliated with any government.