Visa on arrival

Malawi visa for citizens of Switzerland

Citizens of Switzerland 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 Switzerland: the passport opens 120 countries visa-free; Bern — Lilongwe: ≈ 7,270 km, about 9.5 hours of flying.

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

99% of the applications we submit are approved

How we achieve this

After payment, a manager will contact you.

Choose your visa

Document check and supportWe check your passport and documents and tell you what to bring to the border$19

The visa fee is paid at the border.

Apply in 10 minutes

Can I travel to Malawi without a visa on a Switzerland passport?

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

Apply for a visa

Malawi visa rules at a glance

With a Switzerland passport you can visit 120 countries visa-free, 29 with a visa on arrival and 35 with an e-visa; 14 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Switzerland passport ranks 17th of 199.
Switzerland passport: visa-free access to 120 countries; Malawi passport: 41.
Citizens of Switzerland and Malawi can travel together visa-free to 33 countries, for example: Kosovo, Palestine, Gambia, Rwanda, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, Zambia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Bahamas.
Citizens of Malawi, in turn, need an embassy visa to travel to Switzerland. Switzerland visa for citizens of Malawi

Travelling to Malawi: good to know

Bern — Lilongwe: about 7,270 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 9.5 hours.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Malawian Kwacha.
Languages: English and Nyanja.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MWK 1,748.
Malawi is the 124th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Switzerland.