2024 motorway vignettes available from Friday in Hungary: here are the prices
From 1 December, you can buy next year’s motorway vignettes for Hungary’s motorways. Prices will increase by 18% on average: let us show you the new prices.
From tomorrow, 1 December, it will be possible to buy the 2024 annual national and annual county vignettes, valid from 1 January, Portfolio reports. These two categories are becoming increasingly popular with motorists. Well over 2.5 million units of these were sold this year, compared to just under 500,000 in 2020.
Motorists are increasingly turning to online buying the motorway vignettes, which has many advantages in addition to convenience. For example, it is possible to check whether a vehicle has a valid vignette by its registration number, and the owner will be notified before the expiry date. With this, they can avoiding penalties for monthly or 10-day vignettes, the level of which has not yet been officially announced, the statement of autopalyamatrica.hu said.
Motorway vignette prices
According to data from autopalyamatrica.hu, the popularity of county vignettes has skyrocketed, mainly due to the fact that the 10-day vignette has become proportionally more expensive in recent years. According to the professional portal, the introduction of the one-day vignette next March will not change this trend either, as
the D1 category for cars (and motorcycles) will cost HUF 5150 (EUR 13.54), while the 10-day will cost HUF 6400 (EUR 16.83) and the annual one for one county will cost HUF 6600 (EUR 17.35) in 2024.
The price of the daily vignette is 9% of the annual vignette price (HUF 57,260 / EUR 150), the maximum set by the EU. According to the statement, the price of the one-day vignette is in line with the practice in neighbouring countries.
More toll roads
In Hungary, 230 more kilometres of roads will become toll roads next year, bringing the total number of kilometres on which a vignette will be required to be used to 2,000.
The entire length of the M0, the M44 from the Lakitelek/Tiszakécske junction to Békéscsaba, the M30 between Miskolc north and south, the M6 between Bátaszék and the M6-M60 junction, the M4 between Jászberény and Abony north, and Abony east and Szolnok west, and the M76 from Balatonszentgyörgy to Keszthely-Fenékpuszta are expected to be toll roads. This also means that next year, there will be toll roads in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Békés counties.
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Quick fact check. Our neighbour Austria.
Day rate for a car is EUR 8.60 (ten days – EUR 11.50), motorcycle EUR 3.40 (ten days – 4.60)
https://www.asfinag.at/en/toll/vignette/
Hungarian roads are far superior to Austria’s, I am sure our Politicians would say! You get what you pay for…
Re the jump in demand – wasn’t there COVID or something to skew the figures in 2020? Or was I dreaming?
Putting tolls on the entire length of the M0 is going to drive traffic into alternative city roads causing more congestion and pollution. Arpad bridge will become overloaded if use of Megyeri bridge at the north end will require a vignette.