No visa needed

Do citizens of Saint Lucia need a visa for Panama?

Citizens of Saint Lucia don’t need a visa for Panama 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 Saint Lucia: the passport opens 93 countries visa-free; Castries — Panama City: ≈ 2,100 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 Panama without a visa on a Saint Lucia passport?

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

Panama visa rules at a glance

With a Saint Lucia passport you can visit 93 countries visa-free, 27 with a visa on arrival and 43 with an e-visa; 35 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Saint Lucia passport ranks 63rd of 199.
Saint Lucia passport: visa-free access to 93 countries; Panama passport: 88.
Citizens of Saint Lucia and Panama can travel together visa-free to 71 countries, for example: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Colombia, Bahamas, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Belize.
Citizens of Panama, in turn, don’t need a visa for Saint Lucia. Saint Lucia visa for citizens of Panama

Travelling to Panama: good to know

Castries — Panama City: about 2,100 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 3 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: −1 hour.
Local time: Castries 12:00 — Panama City 11:00.
Local currency: Panamanian Balboa and US Dollar.
Languages: Spanish.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ PAB 1.00.
Panama is the 15th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Saint Lucia.