Driving from Germany to Romania by car: the vignettes on the way

Each country on the drive charges in its own way, and each vignette is registered to the plate, so there is nothing to stick on the windscreen. These are the official prices for a car, before any seller's fee.

Buy each one for the day you reach that country: the Austrian 10-day vignette, the Hungarian 10-day e-vignette and the Romanian 10-day rovinieta. On the route from Italy, add the Slovenian 7-day e-vignette.

• Germany: nothing for a car or a camper up to 3.5 tonnes. Toll Collect charges only vehicles over 3.5 tonnes that are built or used to carry goods.
• Austria (ASFINAG): €9.60 for 1 day, €12.80 for 10 days, €32.00 for 2 months.
• Hungary (NÚSZ), category D1 for a car with up to 7 seats: 5,550 forint for 1 day, 6,900 forint for 10 days, 11,170 forint for a month.
• Romania (CNAIR), category A, 10 days: 27 lei for an electric car, 30 for Euro 6, 35 for Euro 4 and 5, 39 for Euro 0 to 3.
• Slovenia (DARS), only on the route from Italy: €16.00 for 7 days or €32.00 for a month, in class 2A. There is no shorter vignette.

The usual drive from Munich to Bucharest runs through Salzburg, Vienna and Budapest to the Nădlac crossing, then past Sibiu: about fifteen hundred kilometres, which most people drive over two days. From Nuremberg or Cologne the A3 reaches Austria at Passau and joins the same line towards Vienna.

German Autobahn tolls do not apply to a passenger car at all. Toll Collect's rule covers vehicles with a maximum permissible mass over 3.5 tonnes that are built for carrying goods or used for it, so the first charge on this trip is the Austrian vignette at the border.

Driving on to Moldova? The rovinieta covers the crossing of Romania, and Moldova charges its own Moldovan vignette.

The rovinieta is not a motorway sticker. It is needed on every national road CNAIR runs as well as on its expressways and motorways; the one exception is a national road inside a town, between its entry and exit signs (Law 226/2023). So it is running from Nădlac onwards whichever road you take, including the DN road that takes you home to a village.

Only Romanian-registered cars may pay after the day they drove. A car on German, Italian or other foreign plates must have its rovinieta before it uses a national road, so buy the Romanian 10-day rovinieta before you reach the border.

The car rovinieta now has four price levels: electric, Euro 6, Euro 4 and 5, and Euro 0 to 3. The levels are set by Order 888/2026 of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, signed on 22 September 2026 and published in Monitorul Oficial, Part I, no. 818 of 25 September 2026, in lei including VAT.

The class is in field V.9 of the registration certificate; a German Zulassungsbescheinigung also states it in field 14. A car whose papers show no class pays the Euro 0 row. Our Euro class checker reads the code for you, and the full rovinieta tariff by Euro class has every period.

A visit home usually lasts longer than ten days, and every short vignette on this route counts calendar days from its start date. The Austrian and Hungarian 10-day vignettes each cover ten consecutive calendar days including the start date; the Romanian 10-day covers the start date and the following nine days.

For a stay of two or three weeks there are two ways to cover the return. Buy a second set of short vignettes starting on the day you drive back, which is usually the cheaper way. Or buy longer periods: a Hungarian monthly e-matrica, a Romanian 30-day or 60-day rovinieta and an Austrian 2-month vignette.

The Austrian 2-month vignette has a catch: bought online by a consumer, it is valid only from the 18th day after purchase, while the 1-day and 10-day can start straight away. In Romania the 30-day rovinieta or the 60-day rovinieta covers both drives in one purchase.

A van converted into a camper is where each country's rules part ways, so check the category in each one before buying.

• Germany: no toll for a camper or van up to 3.5 tonnes.
• Austria: a car or motorhome up to 3.5 tonnes uses the ordinary car vignette, at the same price.
• Hungary: a van up to 3.5 tonnes registered as a goods vehicle (N1) is category D2, not D1, at 10,040 forint for 10 days, and so is a camper registered that way. A motorhome registered as a passenger vehicle (M1) with at most seven seats stays in D1, like a car. NÚSZ sells D2 directly; we do not sell it yet.
• Slovenia: a van taller than 1.3 m over the front axle is class 2B, €32.00 for 7 days. A motorhome stays in class 2A whatever its height only when its living equipment is fixed and the conversion is recorded in the vehicle documents; DARS's vehicle lookup confirms the class.
• Romania: Order 888/2026 has one row for passenger vehicles with at most 9 seats (category A) and one for goods vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes (category B, 62 to 90 lei for 10 days). It has no separate motorhome row, so the vehicle's registration decides which applies. We sell category A only.

Italian motorways do not use a vignette: you take a ticket on entry and pay by distance at the toll booth on exit, in cash, by card or with a Telepass device. Once in Slovenia a vignette is needed on the motorways, and the shortest one lasts 7 days.

From Slovenia the drive continues into Hungary, where the same D1 e-matrica applies, then on to Romania as from Germany. The Slovenian 7-day e-vignette counts its start date as day one and runs to midnight on the seventh.

Each operator sells its own vignette at the official price: ASFINAG, NÚSZ, DARS, and CNAIR with its authorised distributors. We sell the car vignettes of all four in one order, with our service fee shown before you pay. Our Romanian rovinieta options list every rovinieta period, and the Romanian rovinieta price page shows each Euro class with our total.

After buying, check the Romanian record against your plate; the guide to checking a rovinieta explains how.