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Malawi visa for citizens of Costa Rica

Citizens of Costa Rica get a Malawi 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 Costa Rica: the passport opens 90 countries visa-free; San José — Lilongwe: ≈ 13,260 km, about 17 hours of flying.

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

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Malawi visa rules at a glance

With a Costa Rica passport you can visit 90 countries visa-free, 31 with a visa on arrival and 48 with an e-visa; 29 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Costa Rica passport ranks 67th of 199.
Costa Rica passport: visa-free access to 90 countries; Malawi passport: 41.
Citizens of Costa Rica and Malawi can travel together visa-free to 23 countries, for example: Belize, Jamaica, Ecuador, Haiti, Bahamas, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Kosovo, Kiribati, Palestine, and Botswana.
Citizens of Malawi, in turn, need an embassy visa to travel to Costa Rica. Costa Rica visa for citizens of Malawi

Travelling to Malawi: good to know

San José — Lilongwe: about 13,260 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 17 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: +8 hours.
Local time: San José 12:00 — Lilongwe 20:00.
Local currency: Malawian Kwacha.
Languages: English and Nyanja.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MWK 1,748.
Malawi is the 149th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Costa Rica.