How many days did you spend in each country?
Residency rules, visa limits and expense reports often ask how many days you were in a country. Your Timeline is a detailed record of where your phone was. Trackmere turns it into a day count – and shows clearly which days have no data.
Steps
- Open all your Timeline files in Trackmere (old Takeout + phone exports together).
- Set From and To to the period you need – for example a calendar year, or a tax year such as 6 April to 5 April.
- Open Days per country. Print or save the report as PDF, or export the day-by-day sheet to Excel.
How Trackmere counts
- Days present: every date with at least one recorded location, visit or journey end in that country. A travel day counts for both countries.
- Nights (3 a.m.): the country you were in at 3 a.m. – a common stand-in for rules that count midnights.
- Days without data are listed and never assigned to a country.
- Days follow the time zone you choose. Android exports also store the local offset, which you can use instead.
Before you rely on it
- Rules differ: some count any part of a day, some count midnights, some look back several years. Check the rules that apply to you.
- Borders are simplified (roughly 100–300 m). Check days spent right next to a border.
- Fill missing days from other records – tickets, boarding passes, bookings.
- This is a summary of your own data, not tax, immigration or legal advice.
Questions and answers
Does flying over a country count?
No position is usually recorded in flight, so overflown countries do not appear. If a point was recorded, that day would count – check the day list.
What about territories like Puerto Rico?
Territories with their own Natural Earth entry (for example Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, Hong Kong) are counted separately from the main country.
Last updated: 2026-10-26