How Trip Dates Work
A trip is recorded with its arrival and departure dates, and those dates drive every total. When you only know the year, save the trip as Year Only instead of guessing.
A trip carries its dates
Adding a trip asks for a country, a start date, and an end date. Trips with dates feed Dashboard totals, tracker calculations, exports, and forecasts. Both boundary days count.
Ongoing trips
Leave the end date empty only while a stay is genuinely ongoing. The trip shows as Ongoing, and AtlasDays counts through today until you add the departure date.
Year Only
When you know the year but not the dates, tap the start date and choose Year Only at the bottom of the date picker. The pickers switch to Start Year and End Year, and the trip keeps the year alone. As the app itself puts it: year-only trips count toward visited places and the map, but not day counts or trackers.
Year Only exists for the visited-places record and the map, mostly for older history. Anything that feeds a limit you rely on needs real dates.
Transit
Transit is a purpose, not a date setting. Select the Transit chip when you passed through without entering the country, such as an airside connection. Transits are excluded from day counts and do not mark the country as visited.
Choose conservatively
Keep a half-remembered trip as Year Only for now, and give it dates once a passport stamp, booking, photo, or other record confirms the boundaries. A year that is honest about what you know is more useful than dates you had to guess.
If a trip is missing from a total
That is expected for Year Only trips: they mark the place as visited but create no calendar days. The same applies to trips imported from a CSV without dates. Give a trip real dates only when you can support them.
Last updated August 13, 2026