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Malawi visa for citizens of Uruguay

Citizens of Uruguay 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 Uruguay: the passport opens 96 countries visa-free; Montevideo — Lilongwe: ≈ 9,120 km, about 12 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 Uruguay passport you can visit 96 countries visa-free, 32 with a visa on arrival and 43 with an e-visa; 27 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Uruguay passport ranks 59th of 199.
Uruguay passport: visa-free access to 96 countries; Malawi passport: 41.
Citizens of Uruguay and Malawi can travel together visa-free to 26 countries, for example: Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Belize, Bahamas, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and Eswatini.
Citizens of Malawi, in turn, need an embassy visa to travel to Uruguay. Uruguay visa for citizens of Malawi

Travelling to Malawi: good to know

Montevideo — Lilongwe: about 9,120 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 12 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: +5 hours.
Local time: Montevideo 12:00 — Lilongwe 17:00.
Local currency: Malawian Kwacha.
Languages: English and Nyanja.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MWK 1,748.
Malawi is the 66th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Uruguay.