Passport comparison · updated 17 June 2026

Poland vs Ukraine Passport

Q: Which passport is stronger: Poland vs Ukraine?

The Poland passport is stronger with 122 visa-free destinations, 30 more than the next passport in this comparison. Poland ranks #17 of 199. Ukraine ranks #66 of 199.

Q: How many countries can all of them visit visa-free?

88 destinations are visa-free for every passport in this comparison, including Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Barbados and Belarus.

Q: Where can Poland citizens travel visa-free but the others cannot?

34 destinations: Angola, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Cape Verde, China, Japan, Macau, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Palau and 19 more.

Q: Where can Ukraine citizens travel visa-free but the others cannot?

4 destinations: Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Poland and Russia.

Poland passport wins

122 visa-free destinations — 30 more than the Ukraine passport.

Poland

#17

122visa-free

Unlimited stay: 37
Visa on arrival: 33
eTA: 9
eVisa: 19
Visa required: 15
Only this passport: 34

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Ukraine

#66

92visa-free

Unlimited stay: 5
Visa on arrival: 40
eTA: 4
eVisa: 30
Visa required: 32
Only this passport: 4

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Side by side

Visa-free

Poland · 122

Ukraine · 92

Visa-free + on arrival + eTA

Poland · 164

Ukraine · 136

Visa on arrival

Poland · 33

Ukraine · 40

eTA

Poland · 9

Ukraine · 4

eVisa

Poland · 19

Ukraine · 30

Visa required

Poland · 15

Ukraine · 32

Where each passport travels visa-free

Visa-free for both (88)
Only Poland (34)
Only Ukraine (4)
Visa needed for both (73)

Only Poland visa-free (34)

Angola, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Cape Verde, China, Japan, Macau, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Palau, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zambia

Only Ukraine visa-free (4)

Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Poland and Russia

Country-by-country comparison

Destination	Poland	Ukraine
Afghanistan	Visa required	Visa required
Albania	90 days	90 days
Algeria	Visa required	Visa required
Andorra	Unlimited	90 days
Angola	30 days	Visa required
Antigua and Barbuda	180 days	180 days
Argentina	90 days	90 days
Armenia	180 days	Unlimited
Australia	eTA	eVisa
Austria	Unlimited	90 days
Azerbaijan	eVisa	90 days
Bahamas	90 days	eVisa
Bahrain	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Bangladesh	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Barbados	90 days	28 days
Belarus	30 days	Unlimited
Belgium	Unlimited	90 days
Belize	Unlimited	Visa required
Benin	eVisa	eVisa
Bhutan	eVisa	eVisa
Bolivia	90 days	Visa on arrival
Bosnia and Herzegovina	90 days	30 days
Botswana	90 days	eVisa
Brazil	90 days	90 days
Brunei	90 days	30 days
Bulgaria	Unlimited	90 days
Burkina Faso	Visa on arrival	eVisa
Burundi	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Cambodia	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Cameroon	eVisa	eVisa
Canada	eTA	Visa required
Cape Verde	30 days	Visa on arrival
Central African Republic	Visa required	Visa required
Chad	Visa required	Visa required
Chile	90 days	90 days
China	30 days	Visa required
Colombia	90 days	90 days
Comoros	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Costa Rica	180 days	180 days
Côte d'Ivoire	eTA	eTA
Croatia	Unlimited	90 days
Cuba	eVisa	eVisa
Cyprus	Unlimited	90 days
Czechia	Unlimited	90 days
Denmark	Unlimited	90 days
Djibouti	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Dominica	180 days	90 days
Dominican Republic	Unlimited	Unlimited
DR Congo	eVisa	eVisa
Ecuador	90 days	90 days
Egypt	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
El Salvador	180 days	180 days
Equatorial Guinea	eVisa	eVisa
Eritrea	Visa required	Visa required
Estonia	Unlimited	90 days
Eswatini	30 days	30 days
Ethiopia	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Fiji	120 days	120 days
Finland	Unlimited	90 days
France	Unlimited	90 days
Gabon	eVisa	eVisa
Gambia	90 days	90 days
Georgia	360 days	360 days
Germany	Unlimited	90 days
Ghana	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Greece	Unlimited	90 days
Grenada	90 days	90 days
Guatemala	90 days	90 days
Guinea	eVisa	eVisa
Guinea-Bissau	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Guyana	Visa required	Visa required
Haiti	90 days	90 days
Honduras	90 days	90 days
Hong Kong	90 days	14 days
Hungary	Unlimited	90 days
Iceland	Unlimited	90 days
India	eVisa	eVisa
Indonesia	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Iran	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Iraq	Visa on arrival	eVisa
Ireland	Unlimited	90 days
Israel	90 days	90 days
Italy	Unlimited	90 days
Jamaica	30 days	30 days
Japan	90 days	Visa required
Jordan	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Kazakhstan	30 days	90 days
Kenya	eTA	eTA
Kiribati	90 days	90 days
Kosovo	90 days	90 days
Kuwait	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Kyrgyzstan	60 days	90 days
Laos	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Latvia	Unlimited	90 days
Lebanon	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Lesotho	eVisa	eVisa
Liberia	Visa required	Visa required
Libya	eVisa	eVisa
Liechtenstein	Unlimited	90 days
Lithuania	Unlimited	90 days
Luxembourg	Unlimited	90 days
Macau	90 days	Visa on arrival
Madagascar	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Malawi	30 days	eVisa
Malaysia	90 days	30 days
Maldives	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Mali	Visa required	Visa required
Malta	Unlimited	90 days
Marshall Islands	90 days	Visa on arrival
Mauritania	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Mauritius	90 days	90 days
Mexico	180 days	eTA
Micronesia	90 days	30 days
Moldova	90 days	90 days
Monaco	Unlimited	90 days
Mongolia	30 days	Visa required
Montenegro	90 days	90 days
Morocco	90 days	Visa required
Mozambique	Visa on arrival	30 days
Myanmar	eVisa	eVisa
Namibia	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Nauru	Visa required	Visa required
Nepal	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Netherlands	Unlimited	90 days
New Zealand	eTA	Visa required
Nicaragua	90 days	90 days
Niger	Visa required	Visa required
Nigeria	eVisa	eVisa
North Korea	Visa required	Visa required
North Macedonia	90 days	90 days
Norway	Unlimited	90 days
Oman	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Pakistan	eTA	eVisa
Palau	90 days	Visa on arrival
Palestine	Unlimited	Unlimited
Panama	90 days	90 days
Papua New Guinea	eTA	eVisa
Paraguay	90 days	90 days
Peru	90 days	180 days
Philippines	30 days	Visa required
Poland	Own country	90 days
Portugal	Unlimited	90 days
Qatar	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Republic of the Congo	Visa required	Visa required
Romania	Unlimited	90 days
Russia	eVisa	90 days
Rwanda	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Saint Kitts and Nevis	90 days	90 days
Saint Lucia	90 days	Visa required
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	90 days	90 days
Samoa	90 days	Visa on arrival
San Marino	Unlimited	90 days
Sao Tome and Principe	15 days	eVisa
Saudi Arabia	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Senegal	90 days	Visa on arrival
Serbia	90 days	90 days
Seychelles	90 days	90 days
Sierra Leone	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Singapore	90 days	eVisa
Slovakia	Unlimited	90 days
Slovenia	Unlimited	90 days
Solomon Islands	90 days	Visa required
Somalia	Visa on arrival	eVisa
South Africa	30 days	Visa required
South Korea	90 days	eVisa
South Sudan	eVisa	eVisa
Spain	Unlimited	90 days
Sri Lanka	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Sudan	Visa required	Visa required
Suriname	eTA	eTA
Sweden	Unlimited	90 days
Switzerland	Unlimited	90 days
Syria	eVisa	eVisa
Taiwan	90 days	Visa required
Tajikistan	30 days	90 days
Tanzania	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival
Thailand	60 days	60 days
Timor-Leste	90 days	Visa on arrival
Togo	eVisa	eVisa
Tonga	90 days	Visa on arrival
Trinidad and Tobago	90 days	Visa required
Tunisia	90 days	90 days
Türkiye	90 days	90 days
Turkmenistan	Visa required	Visa required
Tuvalu	90 days	Visa on arrival
Uganda	eVisa	eVisa
Ukraine	90 days	Own country
United Arab Emirates	90 days	30 days
United Kingdom	180 days	Visa required
United States	eTA	Visa required
Uruguay	90 days	90 days
Uzbekistan	30 days	Unlimited
Vanuatu	120 days	120 days
Vatican City	Unlimited	90 days
Venezuela	90 days	Visa required
Vietnam	45 days	eVisa
Yemen	Visa required	Visa required
Zambia	90 days	Visa on arrival
Zimbabwe	Visa on arrival	Visa on arrival

Poland vs Ukraine passport: which is stronger in 2026?

The Poland passport opens 122 destinations visa-free (#17 of 199), while the Ukraine passport opens 92 destinations visa-free (#66 of 199). The Poland passport is therefore the stronger one in this Poland vs Ukraine passport comparison, with 30 more visa-free destinations.

If you also count destinations with a visa on arrival or an eTA, the totals become Poland 164 vs Ukraine 136. A traditional visa from an embassy is still required by Poland citizens for 15 countries and by Ukraine citizens for 32 countries, and an online eVisa by 19 (Poland) and 30 (Ukraine).

Where both passports travel visa-free

Both passports are visa-free in 88 destinations, among them popular trips such as Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and 2 more. Neither passport gets visa-free entry to United States, Canada, Australia, India, Egypt, Indonesia and 3 more — plan an eVisa, eTA or embassy visa for those. 73 destinations require some kind of visa for every passport in this comparison.

Where only one of the passports is visa-free

Only Poland citizens can travel visa-free to 33 destinations: Angola, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Cape Verde, China, Japan, Macau, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mexico and 21 more.

Only Ukraine citizens can travel visa-free to 3 destinations: Azerbaijan, Mozambique and Russia.

Visa-free access by continent

How the Poland vs Ukraine passports compare region by region (visa-free destinations per continent):

Africa (54 countries): Poland 14, Ukraine 6
Americas (35 countries): Poland 30, Ukraine 23
Asia (47 countries): Poland 22, Ukraine 12
Europe (49 countries): Poland 46, Ukraine 47
Oceania (14 countries): Poland 10, Ukraine 4

Holding both passports (dual citizenship)

A traveller with both passports can always use the stronger one for each trip. Combined, they open 126 destinations without a visa — 4 more than the Poland passport alone. Remember to enter and leave a country on the same passport, and check whether Poland and Ukraine allow dual citizenship before you apply.

Frequently asked questions

Which passport is stronger: Poland vs Ukraine?

The Poland passport is stronger with 122 visa-free destinations, 30 more than the next passport in this comparison. Poland ranks #17 of 199. Ukraine ranks #66 of 199.

How many countries can all of them visit visa-free?

88 destinations are visa-free for every passport in this comparison, including Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Barbados and Belarus.

Where can Poland citizens travel visa-free but the others cannot?

34 destinations: Angola, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Cape Verde, China, Japan, Macau, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Palau and 19 more.

Where can Ukraine citizens travel visa-free but the others cannot?

4 destinations: Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Poland and Russia.

Data: Passport Index dataset with official corrections (MIT) · updated 17 June 2026.

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