All you need to know about Hungarian motorway tolls

Just as you have to buy a ticket in advance for public transport, you also have to buy the sticker before driving onto the motorway. If you forget to buy the sticker, you still have an hour to stop and buy it at a petrol station or online (of course not while driving). You need a sticker not only on motorways but also on dual carriageways. 

The shortest is the weekly national sticker, valid from the starting day and the next nine days. 

The monthly sticker is valid from the starting day until the 24th hour of the same day of the following month, or until the 24th hour of the last day of the month. 

It’s worth buying an annual sticker if you travel around Hungary often for personal reasons or on business. This can be used from the first day of the current year or from the date of purchase in the current year until midnight on 31 January of the following year. So it can be valid for up to 13 months. 

For 10-day and monthly vignettes it is important to note that if you do not specify the start of the validity period, the vignette is valid for road use from the date of purchase.

You can also buy a county vignette, which can only be used on the tolled expressway network of the county in question. 

When purchasing a motorway sticker, check the data recorded for the e-vignette before paying: the licence plate number, the country code, the price category, the validity period and the county, if you are buying a county vignette. If you enter the data incorrectly, you may have to pay an additional fee.