No visa needed

Do citizens of Mali need a visa for Mauritania?

Citizens of Mali don’t need a visa for Mauritania 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 Mali: the passport opens 30 countries visa-free; Bamako — Nouakchott: ≈ 1,050 km, about 2 hours 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 Mauritania without a visa on a Mali passport?

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

Mauritania visa rules at a glance

With a Mali passport you can visit 30 countries visa-free, 18 with a visa on arrival and 49 with an e-visa; 101 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Mali passport ranks 142nd of 199.
Mali passport: visa-free access to 30 countries; Mauritania passport: 26.
Citizens of Mali and Mauritania can travel together visa-free to 21 countries, for example: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Benin, Cape Verde, Chad, Algeria, Tunisia, Rwanda, Kenya, Barbados, and Dominica.
Mali and Mauritania share a border, so you can also travel overland.
Citizens of Mauritania, in turn, don’t need a visa for Mali. Mali visa for citizens of Mauritania

Travelling to Mauritania: good to know

Bamako — Nouakchott: about 1,050 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 2 hours.
No time difference with your country’s capital.
Local currency: Mauritanian Ouguiya.
Languages: Arabic.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MRU 40.
Mauritania is the 9th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Mali.