Safe Travels Hawai‘i Overview

Aloha! The State of Hawai‘i Safe Travels Hawai‘i program is designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our community from trans-Pacific passengers arriving at airports/ports across the Islands.

The program includes the required online State of Hawai‘i Travel and Health Form, temperature screening at all Hawai‘i airports upon arrival, and the mandatory 10-day quarantine with the possibility of a vaccination exception, or a negative pre-travel test to bypass quarantine.

Travelers not participating in Safe Travels MUST quarantine for 10 days or the length of their stay, whichever is shorter.

It is important that travelers consider the duration and considerable expense of possible quarantine before embarking.

Individuals fully vaccinated in the United States or its Territories may enter Hawaiʻi without pre-travel testing/quarantine starting the 15th day after the completion of their vaccination. The vaccination record document must be uploaded onto Safe Travels and printed out prior to departure and the traveler must have a hard copy in hand when arriving in Hawaiʻi. The State of Hawai‘i will also accept vaccine records that are digitally validated by Digital Health Pass Partners (AZOVA, CLEAR and CommonPass). Travelers who use one of the State’s partners to link their digitally validated vaccine records with Safe Travels may enjoy expedited processing at the airport (no secondary visual inspection of paper vaccine records).

Read more about how your U.S. COVID-19 vaccination can help you travel between counties in Hawai‘i: HawaiiCOVID19.com/travel/faqs.

The pre-travel testing program remains available for all travelers NOT vaccinated in the United States.

All travelers, including those from Japan, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Tahiti (beginning August 7), who board a plane on the final leg of their trip to the Hawaiian Islands without first securing a negative test within 72 hours before departure from a Trusted Testing and Travel Partner will be subject to mandatory quarantine.

The state of Hawai‘i will ONLY accept Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) from a certified Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) lab test results from TRUSTED TESTING AND TRAVEL PARTNERS, and Digital Health Pass Partners AZOVA, CLEAR and CommonPass. Travelers will not be able to obtain a Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) upon arrival at any Hawaiʻi airport.

The negative test result must be uploaded to Safe Travels or printed out prior to departure and a hard copy in hand when arriving in Hawai‘i.

For travelers from Canada, please visit Air Canada or WestJet.

For travelers from Japan, please visit Hawai‘i Tourism Japan (Japanese).

For travelers from Korea, please visit Hawai‘i Tourism Korea (Korean)

For travelers from French Polynesia, please visit Information for travelers returning to Hawai‘i from French Polynesia (Tahiti)

For travelers from the Philippines, please visit A guide on Philippine departure procedures.

The CDC Order that went into effect on Jan. 26, 2021 does not impact the Safe Travels program. For international travelers coming to the State of Hawai‘i, only tests from Trusted Testing Partners will be accepted for purposes of bypassing the State’s 10-day traveler quarantine.

The Safe Travels Digital Platform is a component of the Safe Travels Hawai‘i program and has been in place since September 1, 2020. Travelers are required to enter travel and health information in the platform, providing data that is critical to protecting the health of our residents and visitors alike. This data includes, screened arrivals, upcoming registered trips, travel exemptions, departure airports, and more.

View the Safe Travels Data.