Belgrade to Thessaloniki by car: tolls and borders
Via Niš, the Preševo crossing, Kumanovo, Veles and the Evzoni crossing.
You need no e‑vignette on this drive.
None of the countries on this route sells an e‑vignette we would need to buy for you. What each one charges instead is below.
The countries you cross, in order
Serbia
Motorway tolls are charged per section and paid at toll stations or by transponder.
North Macedonia
Motorway tolls are charged per section and paid at toll stations or by transponder.
Greece
Motorway tolls are charged per section and paid at toll stations or by transponder.
Serbia, North Macedonia and Greece charge tolls on the road instead of a vignette.
The drive
No e‑vignette is due anywhere on this drive. Serbia, North Macedonia and Greece all charge a car at toll plazas on the motorway itself, so there is nothing to buy before you set off and nothing is read from the plate. The E75 runs about 630 kilometres from Belgrade to Thessaloniki, roughly seven hours at the wheel, and the two border crossings, Preševo to Tabanovce and Bogorodica to Evzoni, decide how long the day really takes.
What the tolls cost, country by country
Serbia charges by distance on a ticket. You take one at the Belgrade toll station and hand it in at Preševo, the last barrier before North Macedonia: 2,060 dinars or 18 euros for a car on the Putevi Srbije price list in force since 1 July 2026. Finish the stretch within 24 hours and keep the ticket safe, because a lost ticket, or one older than that, is charged as the longest journey on the section plus the cost of the extra procedure.
North Macedonia charges at five plazas on the A1 between Tabanovce and Gevgelija, from 60 to 100 denars each for a car and 380 denars in all (price list of the Public Enterprise for State Roads, checked 14 October 2026). The plazas take denars, cards, or euros in cash at rounded amounts that come to 7 euros for the five. A Toll4All tag from Serbia pays them too, once a payment card is also registered for North Macedonia in the Toll4All account.
On the Greek side, the A1 from the border to Chalastra, at the edge of Thessaloniki, charges a car once, at the Evzoni plaza: 2.95 euros in each direction, in cash, by card or with an EgnatiaPass transponder. Nea Egnatia Odos has run the road under concession since 31 December 2025, and its own price list is the one to check before you go.
At the two borders
Evzoni is the external border of the European Union. Since 10 April 2026 the Entry/Exit System has recorded the fingerprints and a photo of every traveller without an EU passport on the first crossing, so allow for a longer stop there the first time (Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The record is kept for three years, which makes the next trip quicker.
Check the insurance before you leave. A car insured in Serbia or in the European Union enters Greece on its plate alone, because both belong to the green card agreement that allows it. North Macedonia does not, so carry a green card that covers it, marked MK (Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, list of green card countries).
Budgeting the whole holiday
The tolls are the small part of a summer in Greece. Fuel for a round trip of some 1,260 kilometres, the accommodation and, for Thassos or Corfu, the ferry come to far more. The Greece holiday cost calculatorSerbian on the Serbian travel blog Uhvati dan adds up all four, tolls included, for a trip from Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Kragujevac or Zaječar to nine destinations in Greece.
For Kavala, further east, that calculator sends you through Sofia rather than Skopje, and the Macedonian plazas give way to one charge bought in advance against the plate: the Bulgarian e‑vignette.