No visa needed

Do citizens of Niger need a visa for Mauritania?

Citizens of Niger 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 Niger: the passport opens 30 countries visa-free; Niamey — Nouakchott: ≈ 2,000 km, about 3 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 Niger passport?

Yes, citizens of Niger 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 Niger passport you can visit 30 countries visa-free, 21 with a visa on arrival and 46 with an e-visa; 101 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Niger passport ranks 142nd of 199.
Niger passport: visa-free access to 30 countries; Mauritania passport: 26.
Citizens of Niger and Mauritania can travel together visa-free to 21 countries, for example: Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Ivory Coast, Chad, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal, Tunisia, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Kenya, Seychelles, Barbados, and Dominica.
Citizens of Mauritania, in turn, don’t need a visa for Niger. Niger visa for citizens of Mauritania

Travelling to Mauritania: good to know

Niamey — Nouakchott: about 2,000 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 3 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: −1 hour.
Local time: Niamey 12:00 — Nouakchott 11:00.
Local currency: Mauritanian Ouguiya.
Languages: Arabic.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ MRU 40.
Mauritania is the 17th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Niger.