Below is a list of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria during her reign, which lasted from 1837 until 1901, giving the names of the places she stayed and any known reasons for her visit.
Despite being head of the British Empire, which included territory on all inhabited continents, Queen Victoria never travelled outside of Europe, only travelling as far north as Golspie, southwesterly as San Sebastián, southeasterly as Florence and as far easterly as Berlin. The majority of her visits were made to the duchies and kingdoms of Germany, often via Belgium or the Netherlands, which was the home of many members of her family and the birthplace of her husband, Albert.
She made a few official visits to France and frequently holidayed there towards the end of her life and reign, once including a brief crossing into northern Spain. She holidayed a few times in Italy and once in Switzerland. During their married life, the couple tended to make foreign trips in late summer. From the 1870s, the widowed queen travelled during the spring.
| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1855 | August 18 - August 27 | Château de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Paris, Versailles and Saint-Germain | Visiting Napoleon III | |
| 1858 | August 5 - 6 August | |||
| August 11 - August 12 | Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf | |||
| August 12 | Herrenhausen | |||
| August 12 - August 28 | Babelsberg Palace, Potsdam | Visiting George V of Hanover | ||
| August 28 - August 30 | Hotel de Bellevue, Cologne | Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia | ||
| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | September 24 - September 25 | Hotel d'Angleterre, Frankfurt | Free City of Frankfurt | |
| September 25 - October 10 | Palace, Coburg | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||
| October 10 - October 11 | Rheinische Hof Hotel, Mainz | |||
| October 11 - October 13 | Palace, Koblenz | Visiting Crown Prince William of Prussia | ||
| October 13 - October 16 | Royal Palace of Brussels, Brussels |  Belgium | Visiting Leopold I of Belgium | |
| 1862 | September 2 - September 4 | Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken | Visiting Leopold I of Belgium | |
| September 5 - October 3 | Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda | |||
| October 3 - October 17 | October 3 — October 17 | Palace, Coburg | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
| October 18 - October 24 | October 18 — October 2 | Royal Palace of Laeken, Laeken | Belgium | Visiting Leopold I of Belgium |
| 1863 | August 12 - August 14 | |||
| August 15 - September 7 | Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg | |||
| 1865 | August 11 - September 5 | Schloss Rosenau, Coburg | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
| 1868 | August 6 | Paris | ||
| August 7 - September 9 | Pension Wallis, Lucerne |  Switzerland | Private visit. First visit to Switzerland by a reigning British monarch.[1] | |
| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1872 | March 25 - April 6 | Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden | Visiting Princess Feodora of Leiningen | |
| 1876 | March 29 - April 10 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | ||
| April 10 - April 20 | Palace, Coburg | | Visiting Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | |
| 1879 | March 26 - March 27 | British Embassy, Paris | Receiving President Grévy | |
| March 28 - April 23 | Villa Clara, Baveno | |||
| April 24 - April 25 | British Embassy, Paris | |||
| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880 | March 27 - March 30 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | ||
| March 30 - April 1 | Schloss, Darmstadt | Confirmations of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine | ||
| April 1 - April 15 | Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden | |||
| 1882 | March 16 - April 12 | Chalet des Rosiers, Menton | ||
| 1884 | April 17 - May 6 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Wedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine | |
| 1885 | April 1 - April 22 | Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains | ||
| April 22 | via Switzerland | |||
| April 23 - May 1 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Confirmation of Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse | ||
| 1887 | April 1 - April 4 | Villa Edelweiss, Cannes | ||
| April 6 - April 28 | Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe, Aix-les-Bains | |||
| 1888 | March 24 - April 22 | Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence | ||
| April 23 | Innsbruck railway station, Innsbruck | Stopover luncheon with Franz Joseph I of Austria | ||
| April 24 - April 26 | Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Brandenburg | Visiting Frederick III, German Emperor | ||
| 1889 | March 7 - March 27 | Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country | ||
| March 27 | San Sebastián Basque Country |  Spain | Unofficial meeting with Queen Regent Maria Christina, mother of Alfonso XIII.[2] [3] | |
| March 27 - April 27 | Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz, Basque Country | |||
| Date(s) | Locations | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | March 26 - April 22 | Maison Mottet, Aix-les-Bains | ||
| April 22 | Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne | Switzerland | ||
| April 23 - April 29 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Visiting Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | ||
| 1891 | March 25 - April 29 | Grand Hotel, Grasse | ||
| 1892 | March 21 - April 25 | Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères | ||
| April 26 - May 2 | Neues Palais, Darmstadt | Visiting orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse | ||
| 1893 | March 23 - April 26 | Villa Palmieri, Fiesole, near Florence | ||
| 1894 | March 16 - April 16 | Villa Fabbricotti, Florence | ||
| April 17 - April 28 | Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg | Wedding of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||
| 1895 | March 15 - April 23 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | ||
| April 24 - April 29 | Altes Palais, Darmstadt | Visiting Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse | ||
| 1896 | March 11 - April 29 | Grand Hotel, Cimiez, near Nice | ||
| 1897 | March 12 - April 28 | |||
| 1898 | March 12 - April 28 | |||
| 1899 | March 12 - May 2 | |||