Toll Calculator Europe — Route Cost: Tolls + Fuel

It depends on which of the two systems you are in. In vignette countries you buy time on the whole motorway network: a single day costs €3.50 in Romania, €8.10 in Slovakia and €9.60 in Austria, while Switzerland sells only an annual vignette at about €42.73. In barrier countries you pay per section, and individual structures are billed on top: the Karawanken Tunnel is €9.00, the Rio-Antirrio Bridge €15.90, the Mont Blanc Tunnel €56.40. fuel-prices.eu tracks 403 toll gates, 30 bridges and 48 tunnels in 46 countries.

9 countries require a vignette for a passenger car on motorways: Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. You buy time, not distance, and it is now electronic and linked to your plate almost everywhere. Section-based tolling — barriers or free-flow cameras — is used in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Poland, Norway and Ireland. Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states have no general car toll, but individual crossings there still charge: the Øresund Bridge costs about €62.87.

€9.00 for a single passenger-car crossing of the A11 Karawanken Tunnel between Austria and Slovenia. The tunnel is a special toll section: it is not covered by the Austrian vignette, so on that route you pay both. The same applies to the other Austrian special toll sections — the Tauern, Arlberg, Bosruck, Gleinalm, Katschberg and Felbertauern tunnels and the Brenner motorway.

€56.40 one way for a passenger car through the Mont Blanc Tunnel, and €56.40 through the Fréjus Tunnel; the two operators charge the same tariff for the same France–Italy connection. Both also sell a return ticket that costs less than two singles and is valid for a limited period, and both run frequent-user schemes. These are the two most expensive road crossings of the Alps.

Of the crossings listed on this page, the Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is the most expensive single passenger-car toll at about €62.87, ahead of the Mont Blanc and Fréjus tunnels at €56.40 and the Storebælt Bridge at about €31.44. All three are considerably cheaper with the operator's subscription or advance-booking scheme, which is worth setting up even for a single return trip.

Several crossings that used to charge have repaid their construction loans and are free today. Croatia's Krk Bridge has been toll-free since 2020, and Norway's Atlanterhavstunnelen and Portugal's Marão Tunnel are also listed at zero in our database. Anything shown as Free in the table on this page is the current rate rather than a permanent guarantee — Norwegian tunnels in particular are financed crossing by crossing.

In most vignette countries yes, but there is a short option: a one-day vignette is €3.50 in Romania, €8.10 in Slovakia and €9.60 in Austria, and Czechia, Hungary and Bulgaria all sell day or weekend passes. Switzerland is the exception — the only vignette it sells is the annual one at about €42.73, whatever the length of your stay. Because checks are done by camera against your plate, buying online before you reach the border is enough; you do not need a sticker or a receipt in the car.

Yes on classic barrier motorways in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia and Serbia, where every plaza still accepts cards and usually cash. Free-flow sections are the exception: France's A79 and the A4 Boulay section, and Italy's A33 and A35, have no barrier at all — a camera reads your plate and you are expected to pay online within about 72 hours. Vignette countries never need a box, since the vignette itself is bought online against the plate.

Yes, substantially. Every price on fuel-prices.eu is the Category 1 passenger-car rate. Category is set by height and axles, and the threshold differs by country — Italy measures 1.3 m at the front axle, France uses 2 m overall height and 3.5 t. Above it you move into Category 2 to 5 and typically pay 1.5 to 4 times the car rate; a motorhome over 3.5 t is usually charged as a lorry. Check the operator's tariff table before you travel if you are not in a standard car.

Every navigation app has an avoid-tolls option, but the free alternative is often a mountain pass that closes in winter or a road through every village. Two cases where avoiding really pays: France's A75 between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers is free apart from the Millau Viaduct at €13.80, which makes a Paris–Barcelona run via the A75 markedly cheaper in tolls than the A6/A7/A9; and in vignette countries the vignette already covers the entire motorway network, so once you have bought it there is nothing left to save by taking secondary roads.