Motorway vignettes 2026: Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Slovenia

If your drive uses motorways in any of these five countries, the car needs that country's vignette before the first tolled section. All five sell it online, linked to the number plate. Prices are for cars up to 3.5 t, checked on 26 September 2026 on the official sites.

Prices for 2026

When a vignette ends

A 1-day vignette covers a calendar day, midnight to midnight, so one bought at 6 pm gives you six hours. The 10-day ones count the start day as day one: in Austria, a 10-day vignette from 10 January ends at midnight on 19 January.

Austria's and Hungary's 2026 annual vignettes end on 31 January 2027 whenever you buy them. In Czechia and Slovenia the annual one runs a year from the start date you choose.

Where to buy

• Austria: shop.asfinag.at, the ASFINAG app, vending machines or one of more than 6,000 outlets. The 1-day vignette is sold only in the shop and app.
• Slovakia: eznamka.sk, its app, or 'eznamka' points of sale at some petrol stations and border crossings.
• Czechia: edalnice.gov.cz, post offices, EuroOil and RoBiN OIL stations, and self-service kiosks.
• Hungary: the toll operator's own shop, toll-charge.hu, or the state payment service, nemzetimobilfizetes.gov.hu, which also sells by app or SMS.
• Slovenia: evinjeta.dars.si, petrol stations and other authorised points of sale, or online through ASFINAG, ADAC or Petrol.

Austria's 18-day wait

If you buy a 2-month or annual vignette online as a private customer, it is valid from the 18th day after purchase at the earliest. ASFINAG allows 14 days to cancel, plus three for possible postal delivery.

To drive sooner, buy a 1-day or 10-day vignette online with immediate validity, or buy the 2-month or annual one at an outlet, toll station or vending machine, where it is valid at once. Otherwise order it online at least 18 days ahead.

If you buy Austria's windscreen sticker, sold for the last time in 2026, stick it inside the windscreen. A loose one isn't valid.

Austria's tunnel and pass tolls

Six stretches charge their own toll instead of the vignette. A single car trip in 2026 costs €7.00 for the Bosruck tunnel, €12.00 for the Gleinalm tunnel, €15.00 on the Tauern motorway, €9.00 for the Karawanken, €12.50 on the Brenner motorway and €13.00 on the Arlberg expressway. Pay at the booth, or buy it in advance in the ASFINAG shop or app.

Free sections

In Austria, cars need no vignette on the A1 from the Walserberg border to Salzburg Nord, the A12 from the Kufstein border to Kufstein-Süd, and the A14 from the Hörbranz border to Hohenems.

Around Bratislava, eznamka.sk says the whole D4 bypass is free for cars except about 2 km from the Austrian border at Jarovce to the D2 junction. The D2 from Stupava to Jarovce, the R7 from Nivy to the D4 and the D1 from Pečňa to the D4 are free too. You still need a vignette on the D2 from the D4 to the Hungarian border at Čunovo, and on the D1 east of the D4 towards Senec.

In Slovenia, the coastal expressway (H5 and H6) has needed no vignette since 1 January 2026.

Czechia: electric cars go free

Electric and hydrogen cars pay nothing. A foreign-registered one must first report the exemption on edalnice.gov.cz, or risk a fine of up to CZK 5,000.

Hungary: category and the 60-minute grace

Ordinary cars are category D1: up to 3.5 t and at most seven seats including the driver. A van registered as N1 is D2, which costs more.

A county vignette covers one county's tolled expressways for the year and costs more than a national 10-day one, so it only pays off over several separate trips. The discounted annual M1 regional e-vignette (15,000 Ft in 2026) covers all the tolled roads of the four counties the M1 crosses: Győr-Moson-Sopron, Komárom-Esztergom, Fejér and Pest.

If you join a tolled road by mistake, you have up to 60 minutes from entry to buy the right vignette, says the operator NÚSZ. A vignette bought that day counts only from the moment of purchase.

Fines

Does 'avoid tolls' skip vignette motorways?

The help pages for Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and TomTom don't say whether 'avoid tolls' counts vignette motorways as toll roads. If you have a vignette, switch 'avoid tolls' off so the app doesn't send you onto slower roads. Our settings guide shows where the option is, and you can compare a route across all four apps on Mapssy.

Before you pay

• Enter the plate and country exactly as registered.
• Pick the right category: D1 or D2 in Hungary, 2A or 2B in Slovenia (2A is up to 1.3 m high over the front axle).
• Keep the confirmation. Hungary requires proof of purchase for two years after the last valid day.