Count your UK days in the 6 April–5 April tax year and see which residence tests still need facts about your home, work or UK ties.
A day normally counts when you are in the UK at midnight. The below-46-day result assumes you were not UK resident in any of the previous three tax years.
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Arrive 1 January 2026, depart 10 February 2026; choose tax year 2025/26.
40 midnight days count. If you were nonresident in all three previous tax years, this meets the below-46 overseas test; 5 further counted days stay below that threshold.
Arrive 1 January 2026, depart 2 March 2026; choose tax year 2025/26.
60 midnight days count. Dates alone do not decide residence: check other automatic tests, prior residence and UK ties. There is no unconditional “safe days left” figure.
The UK does not run on a single day threshold. At 183 or more counted days in a tax year, the automatic UK day test is met. Below 183, check the automatic overseas tests first: fewer than 46 days applies if you were nonresident in all three previous tax years, while fewer than 16 applies to prior residents. Other automatic tests depend on homes or full-time work. If no automatic test applies, use the sufficient ties test; travel dates alone cannot complete those checks.
UK counting is unusual: a day counts if you are present at the end of the day. The arrival day therefore counts, the departure day does not, and a same-day visit counts for nothing — arrive on 6 June and leave on 20 June and you are present at the end of 14 days, the 6th through the 19th. The UK tax year runs 6 April to 5 April, so winter trips land in a different tax year than summer ones.
If no automatic test decides the result, sufficient ties compares UK days with qualifying connections. For someone nonresident in all three prior tax years: 46–90 days requires all 4 ties, 91–120 requires 3, and 121–182 requires 2. For someone resident in at least one prior year: 16–45 days requires 4 ties, 46–90 requires 3, 91–120 requires 2, and 121–182 requires 1. The ties are family, accommodation, work, more than 90 UK days in either of the two prior years, and (for prior residents only) the country tie: the UK has the greatest midnight-presence total, including a joint maximum. HMRC definitions checked 2026-10-05; see the sufficient ties guide for conditions and examples.
Because ties are facts about your life — not your flights — a 46–182 day stay is genuinely undetermined by a day ledger alone. The calculator reports that band honestly as "unclear" rather than guessing.
Every calculation above follows the cited publications. If a rule changes, the verification date above is updated — pages with stale dates are flagged for re-verification.
United Kingdom rules explained in depth — the full article →
How sufficient ties change the result: five ties, tables and examples →
If you were not UK resident in any of the previous three tax years, fewer than 46 counted days in a tax year (6 April–5 April) meets an automatic overseas test. At 46–182 days, check the other automatic tests for homes and work before the sufficient ties test. At 183 counted days or more, the automatic UK day test is met. There is no universal safe-day allowance below 183.
Yes — but the departure day does not. UK counting asks whether you were present at the end of the day, so a same-day visit counts for nothing. A stay from 6 June to 20 June counts 14 days (6th–19th).
The Statutory Residence Test runs over the UK tax year, 6 April to 5 April. A trip in December 2025 and a trip in February 2026 both fall in the tax year ending 5 April 2026 — while a calendar-year tool would split them.
Yes. If you were UK resident in any of the previous three tax years, the automatic overseas threshold tightens from 46 to 16 days and the ties table is stricter. This calculator assumes the arrivals rules; if you are a "leaver", take advice before relying on the result.
The outcome needs more than travel dates. Other automatic tests can depend on homes or full-time work. If none applies, the sufficient ties test considers family, accommodation, work and earlier UK presence; prior residents also have a country tie. The calculator lists the missing facts rather than giving a guaranteed allowance.
