Driving to Croatia through Austria and Slovenia: vignettes and tolls

Vignette and section toll prices are the operators' official prices for a car up to 3.5 tonnes, as our catalogue holds them from ASFINAG, DARS and eDálnice. The Karawanken northbound price is DARS's own tariff, which we do not sell, read on 14 October 2026.

• Germany: no motorway toll for a car. The German toll is charged on goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes.
• Czechia, if you start in Poland or Czechia: e-vignette, 300 CZK for 10 days or 480 CZK for 30 days.
• Austria: digital vignette, €12.80 for 10 days or €32.00 for 2 months.
• A10 Tauern tunnels: €15.00 per passage, charged in each direction.
• Karawanken tunnel: €9.00 southbound, sold by ASFINAG; €9.00 northbound, paid to DARS at Hrušica.
• A9 Pyhrn, Bosruck and Gleinalm tunnels together: €19.00 per passage, only if you come down from Linz.
• Slovenia: e-vinjeta, €16.00 for 7 days or €32.00 for a month.
• Croatia: no vignette. Toll by distance at toll plazas, in euro, in cash or by card.
• toll.one: one order holds the vignettes and section tolls above for several cars, up to 38 items, each with its own service fee shown before you pay.

HAC, the state motorway company, charges by the distance between two toll points and by vehicle category. On most of its motorways you take a ticket at the entry plaza and hand it over at the exit, where the toll is worked out; on a few stretches the plaza is both entry and exit and you pay as you pass. HAC accepts cash and Diners, Mastercard, Maestro, Visa, INA and MOL Group cards at the plazas.

HAC also sells an electronic toll device, ENC, and both its price, €15.00, and its discount, 21.74% off every toll all year, are from HAC's toll FAQ, checked 14 October 2026. For one summer holiday a card at the plaza does the same job without it.

The motorway into Istria, towards Umag, Rovinj and Pula, is not HAC's: it is run by BINA-ISTRA, with its own toll plazas at the Učka tunnel, Umag and Pula and its own ENC account.

toll.one does not sell Croatian tolls. Keep a card within reach of the driver's seat for every plaza from the Slovenian border onwards.

Croatia's Toll Collection Act, published in Narodne novine 156/2025 on 24 December 2025, replaces the plazas with one electronic toll system in free-flowing traffic: gantries read an ENC device or the number plate while you drive on. Article 67 of the act makes its provisions on that system, and on how the toll is collected, apply from 1 March 2027.

From then a car up to 3.5 tonnes has to be enrolled before it uses the motorway, either with its number plate and a valid means of payment or with an ENC device (Articles 16 and 18 of the act).

Any trip before March 2027, summer 2026 included, still means a ticket and a plaza. HAC's own toll pages, read on 14 October 2026, describe only the plaza system and do not yet say how a car with foreign plates enrols, so check hac.hr before a trip planned after February 2027.

From Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia you reach Austria across Germany, which charges a car nothing on its motorways: the German toll applies to goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes. The western route through Salzburg, Villach and the Karawanken tunnel then needs an Austrian digital vignette and a Slovenian e-vignette, and the Munich to Split drive adds up the whole trip.

From Poland or Czechia the eastern route through Brno, Vienna, Graz and Maribor adds a Czech e-vignette for the Czech motorways, and it passes no Austrian tunnel toll at all. The Kraków to Split drive shows the whole of it.

Coming down from Linz on the A9 Pyhrn motorway instead, as the route from Hamburg does, passes the Bosruck and Gleinalm tunnels: the Bosruck and Gleinalm section toll costs €19.00 for one passage through both.

Every route crosses Slovenia on the motorway, so the e-vignette is needed whichever border you reach Croatia at. Buy each vignette for the day you cross into that country, not the day you leave home.

The A10 Tauern section toll covers the Tauern and Katschberg tunnels between the Flachau and Rennweg junctions, at €15.00 per passage in either direction. A return trip is two passages, and the two-trip ticket costs €30.00.

The Karawanken tunnel toll southbound costs €9.00 and is sold by ASFINAG for the southbound passage only. Northbound the tunnel belongs to DARS: a car up to 3.5 tonnes pays €9.00 at the Hrušica toll station before the portal (DARS, checked 14 October 2026), and our driving to Kranjska Gora guide explains that booth.

Neither tunnel is covered by the Austrian vignette or by the Slovenian e-vignette. Since March 2026 both directions of the Karawanken tunnel share its new tube while ASFINAG renovates the old one, so allow extra time on a busy travel day.

Buy the southbound passages before you leave and plan for the Hrušica booth on the way home.

The Austrian 10-day vignette runs for 10 consecutive calendar days, so one covers a week's holiday from a Saturday out to the next Saturday back. For a fortnight, two 10-day vignettes, one for each drive, cost €25.60 against €32.00 for one 2-month, so two short ones are the cheaper official price. A 2-month vignette bought online starts 18 days after purchase at the earliest, so it only suits a trip booked well ahead.

The Slovenian 7-day e-vignette ends at midnight on its seventh day, counting the start day, and Saturday to the next Saturday is eight days, so one is not enough for a week there and back. For a week or a fortnight, two 7-day vignettes, one for each drive, cost €32.00, exactly the price of one monthly, so take the monthly: it covers the whole stay and is one vignette to register instead of two.

The Czech 10-day e-vignette runs for 10 consecutive days. For a fortnight, one 30-day at 480 CZK costs less than two 10-day vignettes at 600 CZK.

Through toll.one every vignette carries its own service fee, so where two short vignettes and one long one cost the same officially, the long one is the cheaper order.

Two families driving down together can buy everything at once. One toll.one order holds vignettes and section tolls for several cars, up to 38 items, and each one is registered to its own plate. The cart groups the items by car, Add vehicle starts the next one, and you confirm each plate once before a single payment.

Start with the country you cross first and add the rest of the trip in the cart, beginning with the Slovenian vignette options.