No visa needed

Do citizens of Ivory Coast need a visa for Ghana?

Citizens of Ivory Coast don’t need a visa for Ghana and can stay up to 90 days. You need a valid passport; border officers may ask for a return ticket and accommodation. For a longer stay you need a visa or an extension.

For citizens of Ivory Coast: the passport opens 29 countries visa-free; Yamoussoukro — Accra: ≈ 580 km, about 1 hour of flying.

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

At a glance

No visa needed

Stay: 90 days

Can I travel to Ghana without a visa on a Ivory Coast passport?

Yes, citizens of Ivory Coast don’t need a visa for Ghana for up to 90 days. A valid passport is enough.

Ghana visa rules at a glance

With a Ivory Coast passport you can visit 29 countries visa-free, 23 with a visa on arrival and 49 with an e-visa; 97 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Ivory Coast passport ranks 147th of 199.
Ivory Coast passport: visa-free access to 29 countries; Ghana passport: 43.
Citizens of Ivory Coast and Ghana can travel together visa-free to 24 countries, for example: Liberia, Mali, Togo, Burkina Faso, Benin, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Gambia, Senegal, Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Kenya.
Ivory Coast and Ghana share a border, so you can also travel overland.
Citizens of Ghana, in turn, don’t need a visa for Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast visa for citizens of Ghana

Travelling to Ghana: good to know

Yamoussoukro — Accra: about 580 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 1 hour.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Ghanaian Cedi.
Languages: English.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ GHS 12.
Ghana is the 1st closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Ivory Coast.