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By the NRIWallah team · Last reviewed: September 2026

NRI Day Tracker

How many more days can you spend in India this year? Log your trips and find out, with the rules of the country you live in alongside.

India · tax year

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logged + planned

About you

Income from India this year

Indian rent, interest, gains and salary. Income earned abroad doesn't count towards this.

Days before this aren't counted as days abroad. Leave blank if you've been there for years.

Every day that isn't part of a trip below is counted as a day in .

Pick a country to see its residence test alongside India's.

UK resident in any of the last 3 tax years?

UK ties

The 90-day and country ties are worked out from your log. The full test is on the UK residence test page.

Otherwise the substantial presence test applies: this year's days, plus a third of last year's and a sixth of the year before, against 183.

You need UAE tax residence to get the certificate that unlocks India–UAE treaty benefits.

No extra questions: 's test runs on days alone.

has no personal income tax on salaries, so the count that matters is India's.

Your data

Your trips away from

These are example trips so you can see how it works. Edit them, or .

No trips yet. Add your India visits (past and planned) to see your count.

Year by year

India's tax year runs April to March. The four years before this one always show, because they decide whether the 60 and 120-day rules can reach you.

Tax yearDays in IndiaIndiaThat year I was

India's tests follow section 6 of the Income-tax Act as it applies to each year: the 1961 Act up to 2025-26, and the Income-tax Act, 2025 from tax year 2026-27, which carries the same tests forward. Other countries' results are indicative and rest on the answers above. Days not in a trip are assumed to be at home, including days still to come. An indication, not a determination, and not advice.

Common Questions

For most NRIs the answer is 181 days in a tax year (1 April to 31 March). Spend 182 and you’re resident. There are two exceptions. If your Indian income, not counting income earned abroad, is over ₹15 lakh and you spent 365 days or more in India across the previous four tax years, the line drops to 120 days. And if you’re not an Indian citizen or person of Indian origin, or you’ve moved back for good, it can drop to 60 days once those same 365 days are in place. The tracker works out which line applies to you.
The law doesn’t spell out how to count a part day, so the cautious and most common approach counts both the day you land and the day you fly out as days in India. The tracker does that by default. If you and your adviser count nights instead, untick the box and every trip loses its departure day. Whichever you pick, use it every year.
An Indian citizen whose Indian income is over ₹15 lakh, and who is not liable to tax in any other country because of where they live, is deemed resident in India, however few days they spend here. The UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia don’t tax salaries, so that is the position many Gulf NRIs could be in. A deemed resident is always RNOR, so income earned abroad stays outside Indian tax. The change is in how Indian income is treated, and in no longer being able to call yourself an NRI for that year.
Yes, and it happens more often than people think, because each country uses its own test over its own tax year. When both countries treat you as resident, the tax treaty between them has tie-breaker rules that settle it: where your permanent home is, then where your personal and economic ties are strongest, then where you habitually live, then your nationality. The tracker flags a year where both sides say resident. The DTAA estimator shows how the income is then shared out.
The UAE doesn’t tax your salary, but to use the India–UAE treaty you need a UAE tax residency certificate, and that depends on your days there. You’re UAE tax resident with 183 days in a 12-month period, or with 90 days if you hold a UAE residence visa and have a home or job there. A long stay in India can leave you short of that at the same time as it pushes your India count up. The tracker shows both.
No. The day count here is for income tax. Whether you’re resident under FEMA, which governs your NRE and NRO accounts and what you can invest in, is a separate test based on the previous financial year and on why you’re in India. Someone who has left for a job abroad is non-resident under FEMA from the day they go. Someone who has come back for good is resident from the day they arrive. The 180-day rule explainer untangles the two.
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Passport stamps, boarding passes, e-tickets and the travel history on your airline accounts. If your status is ever questioned, you’ll need a day count you can back up with documents. The printable summary lists every trip and the status it gives each year, which is the conversation to have with a chartered accountant before filing your return.

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If your count is within a few weeks of a threshold, or you might be resident in two countries, tell us the shape of your year and we’ll point you to someone who can settle it.

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Why the day count decides so much

Your residential status is the first question on an Indian tax return, and everything else follows from it. A non-resident pays Indian tax only on income that arises in India. A resident who is ordinarily resident pays Indian tax on worldwide income: foreign salary, overseas rent, interest on a bank account in London or Dubai, gains on a US brokerage account. The difference between the two is not a form you fill in. It is decided by where you physically were, counted day by day, over the Indian tax year that runs from 1 April to 31 March.

That’s why a long winter at home can cost far more than the flights. Three months in India over Diwali and the wedding season, a month in summer for a parent’s surgery, and a few long weekends can add up to more than 182 days without anyone noticing, and it doesn’t matter that you never meant to move back.

The three lines, and which one is yours

182 days. Spend 182 days or more in India in a tax year and you are resident, whoever you are.

60 days plus 365. Spend 60 days or more in the year and 365 days or more across the previous four years and you are also resident. For an Indian citizen or person of Indian origin who lives abroad and is visiting, the 60 is replaced by 182, which is why most NRIs only need to watch the 182 line. An Indian citizen who leaves India during the year for a job abroad also gets 182.

120 days plus 365. The exception to that exception. If your income from Indian sources is over ₹15 lakh, a visit of 120 days or more, together with 365 days in the previous four years, makes you resident. Anyone resident only because of this rule is automatically RNOR (resident but not ordinarily resident), so foreign income stays untaxed, but you are no longer an NRI for that year.

Then there is deemed residency: an Indian citizen with Indian income over ₹15 lakh who isn’t liable to tax anywhere else is resident whatever the day count. From tax year 2026-27 these rules are in the Income-tax Act, 2025, which carries them forward unchanged in substance.

The trip across 31 March

Because India’s year ends on 31 March, a single winter trip can land in two tax years. Arriving on 1 February and leaving on 30 April puts 59 days in one year and 30 in the next. That can be exactly what you want, or it can mean one year is fuller than you thought. The tracker splits every trip at the year boundary automatically.

The country you live in usually runs a different year: 6 April in the UK, 1 July in Australia, 1 January in the US, Canada, Germany, Singapore and the Gulf. The same trip moves two counts at once, on two different calendars. Keeping both in view is the point of this tool.

The other side: where you live

Leaving India’s count low isn’t enough on its own. For a tax treaty to protect you, you usually need to be resident in the other country too. The tracker applies each country’s own test to the days your log leaves you there:

  • United Kingdom: the statutory residence test, with days counted at midnight and your ties. The full walk-through is on the UK residence test page.
  • United States: citizens and green-card holders are always resident. Everyone else faces the substantial presence test, which weights the last three years.
  • Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany: a home and life there generally makes you resident whatever the count. Without one, the 183-day rules take over.
  • Ireland and Singapore: tests based on days alone: 183 days, with Ireland adding 280 across two years.
  • UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar: no tax on salaries, but residence decides whether you can get the certificate that unlocks the treaty.
  • Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain: no personal income tax and no day test, so India’s count is the one that matters.

If you’re planning the move back rather than a visit, the RNOR tracker works out how long your transitional window lasts, and moving back to India covers what your current country charges on the way out.

Every rate and threshold here is sourced, dated and shown on the page — but tax rules change, and we would rather be told than be wrong. Reports go to the team that maintains the tool. If you can point at the official source, that gets it fixed fastest.

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