Calculate your Canadian citizenship eligibility date

To qualify for Canadian citizenship you need 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada over the five years before you apply. A calculator can tell you where you stand today — but your number changes every time you cross the border, and a one-time calculation goes stale the moment you take your next trip.

A snapshot vs. a running total.

If you just want a one-time figure, IRCC has an official Physical Presence Calculator — it's the authoritative source, and you should confirm your final number there before you apply.

The catch: it's a manual form. Every time you want an updated number, you re-enter every trip from scratch. For someone who crosses the border occasionally, that's fine. For someone crossing every week, it's a chore you'll avoid until the day you apply — which is exactly when errors hurt most.

BorderLog flips that around: you log each crossing once, as it happens, and your physical-presence total stays accurate and current automatically. No re-entering five years of trips. See exactly how the day-counting works.

Counting by hand breaks down for three reasons.