How to pay tolls in Croatia

Croatia has no vignette. You pay for the stretch you drive. How you pay changes completely on 1 March 2027.

From 1 March 2027: register, then just drive

The booths are replaced by a barrier-free system called Crolibertas. Gantries record where you join and leave, and the toll is charged to your registered number plate (with a bank card behind it) or to an ENC device. If your trip is after that date, read what is confirmed about Crolibertas and what visitors should do, how registration works and what an unregistered journey costs; the rest of this page is about the months until then.

Until then: ticket in, pay out

Most Croatian motorways are closed toll systems. Where you join, you take a ticket from the machine. Where you leave, you hand it over and pay the toll for that stretch. Keep the ticket somewhere you can reach it: without it, or with a ticket more than 24 hours old, you pay twice the toll for the longest journey to that exit.

The price depends on where you join and leave and on your vehicle category, and is the same in both directions. Look up any journey.

Ways to pay until 1 March 2027

• Cash: euros, at a staffed lane.
• Card: the usual debit and credit cards, at staffed lanes and at the card-only lanes.
• ENC: an electronic device on the windscreen, topped up in advance. You drive through the ENC lanes without handling a ticket, and ENC users pay less than the listed price. It carries over to the new system.

Follow the signs above the lanes: a lane marked only “ENC” has no one to take cash or a card.

Istria and the Učka tunnel

The Istrian Y (the A8 and A9) works the same way, but it is run by a different company, Bina Istra, as a system of its own. The Učka tunnel is part of it: its price is included in any journey that starts or ends at Matulji. Bina Istra sells its own ENC packages with their own discounts.

Flat fees by the border

Two short stretches by the Slovenian border charge one fixed amount, with no ticket. See Bregana and Rupa.

Queues in summer

On summer Saturdays the big toll stations, Lučko near Zagreb above all, can back up for a long way. 2026 was the last summer of that: the new system has no booths to queue at.

Sources

• HAC: frequently asked questions (in Croatian): payment, the lost ticket, ENC.
• HAC: ENC and Bina Istra: ENC packages.
• crolibertas.hr and the Toll Collection Act, for the system from 1 March 2027.