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Sri Lanka visa for citizens of Madagascar

Citizens of Madagascar get a Sri Lanka 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 Madagascar: the passport opens 29 countries visa-free; Antananarivo — Colombo: ≈ 4,560 km, about 6 hours of flying.

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

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Can I travel to Sri Lanka without a visa on a Madagascar passport?

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

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Sri Lanka visa rules at a glance

With a Madagascar passport you can visit 29 countries visa-free, 26 with a visa on arrival and 47 with an e-visa; 96 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Madagascar passport ranks 147th of 199.
Madagascar passport: visa-free access to 29 countries; Sri Lanka passport: 18.
Citizens of Madagascar and Sri Lanka can travel together visa-free to 10 countries, for example: Seychelles, Lesotho, Rwanda, Singapore, Gambia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Micronesia, Dominica, and Haiti.
Citizens of Sri Lanka, in turn, get a visa on arrival in Madagascar. Madagascar visa for citizens of Sri Lanka

Travelling to Sri Lanka: good to know

Antananarivo — Colombo: about 4,560 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 6 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: +2.5 hours.
Local time: Antananarivo 12:00 — Colombo 14:30.
Local currency: Sri Lankan Rupee.
Languages: Sinhala and Tamil.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ LKR 330.
Sri Lanka is the 30th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Madagascar.