🇱🇰 Travelling to Sri Lanka

What to check before you go to Sri Lanka: 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 Sri Lanka's embassy.

Sri Lanka essentials

Capital

Colombo

Currency

Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)

Languages

Sinhala, Tamil

They drive on the

left

Calling code

+94

Get border-ready for Sri Lanka

Trabreez reads the official rules for your passport live and checks them against your own trip:

• Is your passport valid for long enough for Sri Lanka, 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