Six Countries, Six Published Vignette Price Lists — and One Sticker Being Issued for the Last Time
Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary all charge a flat motorway fee instead of a per-kilometre toll. Here is what each one publishes, and what it costs to be caught without one.
Meridians Reise-Redaktion
Published 26 August 2026 · Updated 26 August 2026 · 9 min read
AutomotiveThe short answer
- Six countries around Germany use a vignette rather than a distance-based toll, and all six publish their tariffs. Annual passes range from 90 euros in Slovakia to 117.50 euros in Slovenia.
- Austria is issuing its adhesive vignette for the last time in 2026; from 1 February 2027 the ADAC says only the digital version will exist.
- Austria's replacement toll is 200 euros for a car. Miss the four-week payment deadline and the case becomes an administrative penalty procedure carrying 300 to 3,000 euros.
- Hungary publishes its tariffs in forint rather than euros, so we quote forint and do not convert them.
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Drive south or east out of Germany and sooner or later you cross a border where the motorway starts costing money — not per kilometre, but as a flat fee. Six countries in that direction run a vignette system: Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The useful part is that all six publish their tariffs. The figures below come from the ADAC's country toll pages, the club's press release on 2026 motorway charges, and — for Switzerland — the official Swiss government portal ch.ch.
A year on the motorway: what the six countries charge
- Slovakia — 90.00 euros — e-vignette for cars and motorhomes up to 3.5 t; motorcycles are exempt according to the ADAC
- Czechia — 2,570 koruna (about 105.50 euros by the ADAC's own conversion) — digital only since 2021; battery-electric cars are exempt if registered in advance
- Austria — 106.80 euros — cars up to 3.5 t; motorcycle annual pass 42.70 euros; still available in 2026 as either a sticker or a digital vignette
- Slovenia — 117.50 euros — category 2A (cars up to 3.5 t). Vehicles over 1.30 m high at the front axle fall into category 2B at 235.00 euros. Motorcycle: 58.70 euros
- Switzerland — 40 Swiss francs (the ADAC gives roughly 44.50 euros) — valid from 1 December 2025 to 31 January 2027, so fourteen months
- Hungary — 61,760 forint — category D1; a regional annual vignette costs 7,190 forint
Short stays: the ten-day tier
- Slovakia — 10.80 euros for 10 days; 8.10 euros for 1 day; 17.10 euros for 30 days
- Czechia — 300 koruna (about 12.30 euros) for 10 days; 230 koruna (about 9.45 euros) for 1 day; 480 koruna (about 19.70 euros) for 30 days
- Austria — 12.80 euros for 10 days; 9.60 euros for 1 day; 32.00 euros for 2 months
- Slovenia — 16.00 euros for 7 days; 32.00 euros for 1 month (category 2A). Motorcycle: 8.00 euros for 7 days, 32.00 euros for 6 months
- Hungary — 6,900 forint for 10 days; 5,550 forint for 1 day; 11,170 forint for 1 month
- Switzerland — no short-term option exists. The annual vignette at 40 francs is the only product
That makes Switzerland the outlier in both directions: expensive for a single transit, cheap for anyone who crosses regularly. Forty francs covers fourteen months, because ch.ch states the 2026 vignette became valid on 1 December 2025 and does not expire until 31 January 2027.
Austria's last sticker
The ADAC notes that Austria is issuing the adhesive vignette for the last time in 2026, with only the digital version available from 1 February 2027. One rule already causes trouble today: bought online, one-day and ten-day digital vignettes are valid immediately, but longer terms only become valid after the eighteen-day distance-selling withdrawal period — unless you buy them at a physical sales point. Order an annual vignette online on Friday evening and set off on Saturday morning, and you are driving without one.
What getting caught costs
- Austria — 200 euros replacement toll for cars up to 3.5 t, 100 euros for motorcycles — legally an offer to settle rather than a fine; payable within four weeks of the date on the letter
- Austria, if unpaid — 300 to 3,000 euros — administrative penalty procedure plus costs; enforceable in Germany from 25 euros upwards
- Switzerland — 200 francs fine — and you still have to buy the vignette
- Slovenia — 300 to 800 euros — per the ADAC's Slovenia toll page
- Czechia — roughly 205 to 821 euros in administrative proceedings, by the ADAC's figures
What the vignette does not cover
A vignette is rarely the whole bill. In Slovenia the Karawanken tunnel is excluded; the ADAC puts a single car passage at 9.12 euros. Austria adds route tolls for tunnels and alpine passes, and Switzerland does the same — ch.ch and the ADAC point to the Great St Bernard and Munt-la-Schera as well as car-shuttle services. And one detail that costs nothing until you get it wrong: every digital vignette is tied to a number plate. A typo when entering it is treated in Austria, according to the ADAC, exactly like driving without one.
Buy only from the official channels — ASFINAG, e-vignette.ch, eznamka.sk, the Czech portal, Hungary's e-Matrica, or the automobile clubs. The ADAC explicitly warns about third-party sellers charging a markup and about phishing emails sent in the toll operators' names.
Sources
Every factual claim above is traceable to these documents. Check them — that is why they are here.
- Digitaler denn je: Die Autobahngebühren für das Jahr 2026 (press release, 1 Dec 2025)ADAC
- Maut und Vignette in der Schweiz: Kosten und BezahlungADAC
- Autobahnvignette: price, validity, e-vignette and finesch.ch — Swiss authorities portal
- Maut und Vignette in Slowenien: Gebühren im ÜberblickADAC
- Maut und Vignette in der Slowakei: Gebühren im ÜberblickADAC
- Maut und Vignette in Ungarn: Gebühren im ÜberblickADAC
- Vignette in Tschechien: Maut 2026 teurerADAC
- Ohne Vignette in Österreich: Ersatzmaut kostet jetzt 200 EuroADAC
- Ersatzmaut Österreich: penalties, deadlines, appealsADAC
- Digitale Autobahn-Vignette in Österreich: Diese Fehler kostenADAC
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