Visa on arrival

Ethiopia visa for citizens of Somalia

Citizens of Somalia get an Ethiopia visa on arrival at passport control. You don’t apply in advance, but border officers check your passport, return ticket and accommodation. Visago checks your documents before you travel. It costs $19.

For citizens of Somalia: the passport opens 11 countries visa-free; Mogadishu — Addis Ababa: ≈ 1,070 km, about 2 hours of flying.

Checked by visa analyst Albert Brown, 13 years of experience · September 26, 2026

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Can I travel to Ethiopia without a visa on a Somalia passport?

You don’t need to apply in advance: citizens of Somalia get the visa on arrival. To avoid problems at the border, we check your documents for $19.

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Ethiopia visa rules at a glance

With a Somalia passport you can visit 11 countries visa-free, 20 with a visa on arrival and 51 with an e-visa; 113 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Somalia passport ranks 192nd of 199.
Somalia passport: visa-free access to 11 countries; Ethiopia passport: 12.
Citizens of Somalia and Ethiopia can travel together visa-free to 9 countries, for example: Kenya, Seychelles, Rwanda, Benin, Gambia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Micronesia, and Haiti.
Somalia and Ethiopia share a border, so you can also travel overland.
Citizens of Ethiopia, in turn, get a visa on arrival in Somalia. Somalia visa for citizens of Ethiopia

Travelling to Ethiopia: good to know

Mogadishu — Addis Ababa: about 1,070 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 2 hours.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Ethiopian Birr.
Languages: Amharic.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ ETB 163.
Ethiopia is the 2nd closest of 194 destinations open to citizens of Somalia.