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🇧🇦 Travelling to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What to check before you go to Bosnia and Herzegovina: the official entry rules for your passport, and the essentials for when you land.
Entry rules for your passport
Entry rules (visas, passport validity, travel permits and arrival forms) depend on your passport and can change at short notice. Always read your own government's latest advice:
- British passport: GOV.UK entry requirements
- Australian passport: Smartraveller (Australian Government)
- New Zealand passport: SafeTravel (New Zealand Government)
- Irish passport: Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland)
- U.S. passport: U.S. Department of State: country information
- Canadian passport: Government of Canada: travel advice
Other passports: your own government's travel advice, or Bosnia and Herzegovina's embassy.
Bosnia and Herzegovina essentials
- Capital
- Sarajevo
- Currency
- Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (BAM)
- Languages
- Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
- They drive on the
- right
- Calling code
- +387
Get border-ready for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Trabreez reads the official rules for your passport live and checks them against your own trip:
- Is your passport valid for long enough for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the date to renew by if not
- Whether you need a visa or travel permit, with the official site
- If there's an arrival form, and the day it opens
- Where you change planes, and whether that's a problem for your passport
- An arrival-day plan that works with no signal: passport control, getting online, money and the way to your hotel
Travel information is a guide only. Always confirm entry rules with official sources before you book or travel. Essentials last reviewed 2026-10-05.