Buy the digital Hungary vignette

Yes. A valid vignette is required on the motorways and expressways in the operator's official list, regardless of whether you are only passing through or staying in the country for longer. You should have the vignette, often also called the Hungary motorway vignette or Hungarian motorway vignette, before you drive onto a toll road. Cars, motorcycles, vans and motorhomes need an e-vignette; on all other roads, cars do not need one.

The Hungary vignette price depends on the validity period and the vehicle category and is set in forints. The official 2026 prices for cars and motorhomes in category D1: 1-day vignette 5,550 HUF (approx. 15,20 €), 10-day vignette 6,900 HUF (approx. 18,90 €), monthly vignette 11,170 HUF (approx. 30,59 €) and nationwide annual vignette 61,760 HUF (approx. 169,11 €). The annual vignette for one county costs 7,190 HUF (approx. 19,69 €). For motorcycles (D1M) the prices are 2,770, 3,450 and 5,590 HUF for the 1-day, 10-day and monthly vignette, for category D2 7,890, 10,040 and 15,820 HUF, and 87,650 HUF for the year. The Vignette Flat Rate refers to the 10-day vignette for cars and motorhomes in category D1: instead, you pay a fixed price per month and activate the 10-day vignette yourself for each trip. The price comparison shows how this works out.

If you want to buy the Hungarian vignette or buy a Hungary vignette online, you can do so conveniently directly at europamaut. You receive the Hungary motorway vignette there as an e-vignette without a sticker. Officially, the e-vignette is also available in the operator's E-Matrica portal (ematrica.nemzetiutdij.hu) and via the electronic and stationary sales channels of the operator and authorized resellers. Sticker vignettes do not exist; the vignette is only registered to your license plate. Beware of unofficial sellers who add a surcharge: How to recognize disreputable offers.

Depending on the vehicle, the Hungary vignette comes in four categories. Category D1 applies to cars and motorhomes up to 3.5 t GVW with at most seven seats including the driver, so most cars, estates and SUVs. Category D1M applies to motorcycles. Category D2 applies to all other vehicles up to 3.5 t GVW, for example vans or vehicles for eight or more people, as well as to motorhomes over 3.5 t GVW. Category U is for trailers behind a D2 vehicle. The details in your vehicle registration document are what counts. More under Vehicle classes in Hungary.

Since 1 January 2026, motorhomes need a vignette regardless of weight: category D1 up to 3.5 t GVW and at most seven people, otherwise D2. The vignette of a towing vehicle in category D1 also covers a trailer or caravan; behind a D2 vehicle you additionally need the U vignette. Electric cars are not exempt and need a category D1 vignette like other cars. More under Motorhome in Hungary.

The digital vignette is valid on all toll motorways and expressways requiring a vignette throughout Hungary. Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged, and Győr can be reached via such roads, so you need a valid vignette to travel there. There is no vignette for Budapest alone: the M0 ring road around Budapest requires a vignette along its entire length and can be used with any nationwide vignette, the Pest county vignette, or the M1 regional vignette.

Yes, the digital vignette is registered to the respective license plate and linked to it. There is no physical product or confirmation that you have to carry with you. When registering, you therefore enter the license plate and the country of registration, without accents and spaces. Check both carefully, because a vignette for the wrong license plate is not valid for your vehicle. If you made a typo, the license plate can be corrected according to the operator, provided at most three characters are affected.

The Hungary motorway vignette is valid once the registration confirmation has been received, usually within a few minutes. With the Vignette Flat Rate, you activate the vignette for your trip yourself, at no additional cost. It is best to activate it before departure and to set off only once the confirmation has arrived. If you wish, you can also set the start of validity to a later day. You can see at any time whether a vignette is already registered in the free validity check.

Officially, the Hungarian vignette is available as a 1-day, 10-day, monthly and annual vignette, plus the cheaper county vignettes. There is no 6-month vignette. The 1-day vignette is valid for one calendar day, the 10-day vignette on the start day plus nine following days, the monthly vignette until the same day of the following month, and the 2026 annual vignette until 31 January 2027. With the Vignette Flat Rate, you no longer buy individual vignettes: for each trip, you activate the 10-day vignette for Hungary (cars and motorhomes, category D1) yourself, at no additional cost.

A surcharge of 27,790 HUF (approx. 76,09 €) is due if you pay within 60 days, and 95,730 HUF (approx. 262,12 €) after that. If you buy or activate the vignette only after driving onto the road, you pay no surcharge if the check took place in the 60 minutes before the validity started. For a vignette of the wrong, lower category, the difference surcharge is 15,530 HUF (approx. 42,52 €), and 49,190 HUF (approx. 134,69 €) after 60 days. At most one surcharge is charged per license plate and calendar day.

There is no special toll for individual bridges or tunnels in Hungary; even the M0 around Budapest is covered by the vignette. Trucks and buses over 3.5 t gross vehicle weight pay the distance-based HU-GO toll according to kilometers driven instead of the vignette, and it is not part of the Vignette Flat Rate. You can find an overview at Toll in Hungary.

Neighboring countries have their own rules; for the journey to Hungary you may need a separate vignette there. There is a separate page for each of Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania. The section on the included countries further up shows which countries the Vignette Flat Rate also covers.

With the Vignette Flat Rate, you book a monthly flat price once and in return receive unlimited 10-day vignettes for Hungary (cars and motorhomes, category D1), without having to buy an individual vignette again for every trip. In addition, the Vignette Flat Rate automatically also applies to other European toll countries.

No. By booking the Vignette Flat Rate, you initially activate a vignette for the selected country and the specified period. Within the Vignette Flat Rate, you can and must activate vignettes for all further countries and travel periods. Without activating the vignettes, you are not authorized to use toll roads in the respective countries.