No visa needed

Do citizens of Guyana need a visa for Suriname?

Citizens of Guyana don’t need a visa for Suriname and can stay up to 180 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 Guyana: the passport opens 51 countries visa-free; Georgetown — Paramaribo: ≈ 350 km, about 1 hour of flying.

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

At a glance

No visa needed

Stay: 180 days

Can I travel to Suriname without a visa on a Guyana passport?

Yes, citizens of Guyana don’t need a visa for Suriname for up to 180 days. A valid passport is enough.

Suriname visa rules at a glance

With a Guyana passport you can visit 51 countries visa-free, 26 with a visa on arrival and 45 with an e-visa; 76 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Guyana passport ranks 104th of 199.
Guyana passport: visa-free access to 51 countries; Suriname passport: 35.
Citizens of Guyana and Suriname can travel together visa-free to 30 countries, for example: Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Ecuador, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Bahamas.
Guyana and Suriname share a border, so you can also travel overland.
Citizens of Suriname, in turn, don’t need a visa for Guyana. Guyana visa for citizens of Suriname

Travelling to Suriname: good to know

Georgetown — Paramaribo: about 350 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 1 hour.
Time difference with your country’s capital: +1 hour.
Local time: Georgetown 12:00 — Paramaribo 13:00.
Local currency: Surinamese Dollar.
Languages: Dutch.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ SRD 38.
Suriname is the 1st closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Guyana.