After over a year of staying home, the world is starting to reopen for American travelers thanks to science and the COVID vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to discourage U.S. citizens from traveling, even those who are fully vaccinated, at least for a few more months. But the welcome mat that had been rolled up for Americans for much of 2020 is now back in place and more than 90 countries have reopened to U.S. tourists—including Iceland, which recently said it would welcome vaccinated travelers beginning April 6, 2021.
So what’s open? Here’s the list:
- Albania
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Aruba
- The Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Curacao
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- The Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- The Maldives
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Rwanda
- Saba
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Maarten
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- The U.S. Virgin Islands
- Uzbekistan
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Included are two U.S. territories (Puerto Rico and the USVI). Mexico, Central America and most islands in the Caribbean are also open to tourists, with varying degrees of testing and quarantine required — from no testing or quarantine in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic to pre-travel testing and 14-day on-resort quarantine in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.