No visa needed

Do citizens of Trinidad and Tobago need a visa for Suriname?

Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago: the passport opens 97 countries visa-free; Port of Spain — Paramaribo: ≈ 880 km, about 1.5 hours 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 Trinidad and Tobago passport?

Yes, citizens of Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago passport you can visit 97 countries visa-free, 25 with a visa on arrival and 44 with an e-visa; 32 more require an embassy visa.
By the number of visa-free destinations, the Trinidad and Tobago passport ranks 57th of 199.
Trinidad and Tobago passport: visa-free access to 97 countries; Suriname passport: 35.
Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname can travel together visa-free to 30 countries, for example: Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Jamaica, Ecuador, Bahamas, Costa Rica, and Belize.
Citizens of Suriname, in turn, don’t need a visa for Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago visa for citizens of Suriname

Travelling to Suriname: good to know

Port of Spain — Paramaribo: about 880 km in a straight line; a direct flight takes roughly 1.5 hours.
Time difference with your country’s capital: +1 hour.
Local time: Port of Spain 12:00 — Paramaribo 13:00.
Local currency: Surinamese Dollar.
Languages: Dutch.
Exchange rate: $1.00 ≈ SRD 38.
Suriname is the 10th closest of 197 destinations open to citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.