The road
Budapest to Bucharest by car
845 km, about 8 h 06 on the fastest road, through Hungary and Romania. Fuel from about €110 in a petrol car at this week's prices, with about €19 in tolls on the way.
Measured on the road our router draws, 2026-11-01. Your own start and vehicle change every number — that is what the button at the end is for.
845 km fastest road, one way · 8 h 06 driving without stops · 2 countries
What does this road cost in your vehicle?
The nights, tolls for your vehicle class, fuel stops and any ferry — planned in seconds.
The road, country by country
- 🇭🇺 Hungary · 219 km
- 🇷🇴 Romania · 626 km
With a camper's height and weight the router takes a different road: 867 km, about 9 h 24.
What it costs to drive
Fuel at the 2026-10-25 prices of the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, per country crossed. Tolls are an estimate from published per-kilometre tariffs plus the crossings on this road. Beds and food are not here: they depend on how you travel.
A camper, the whole sum: 2 days of driving, one night at a campsite about €14 each, self-catering for two about €18 a day — with the fuel and tolls below about €279.
| Vehicle | Fuel | Tolls | Together | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Car, petrol | €110 | €19 | €129 | 59 l at 7 l/100 km |
| Car, diesel | €111 | €19 | €130 | 55 l at 6.5 l/100 km |
| Camper, diesel | €210 | €19 | €229 | 104 l at 12 l/100 km |
- 🇭🇺 petrol €1.75 · diesel €1.93 /l
- 🇷🇴 petrol €1.89 · diesel €2.04 /l
Charged on the way
- 🎫 Hungarian e-vignette (matrica) — €15.15 (D1: car or motorhome ≤ 3.5 t with 7 seats or fewer (registration J = M1/M1G), and the trailer it tows) · unverified
- 🎫 Romanian e-vignette (rovinieta) — €4.12 (Car or motorhome, category A (up to 9 seats), Euro 6) · unverified
Rules on this road
Shops on a Sunday
- 🇭🇺 Hungary — Many larger shops close on Sundays; smaller and family-run ones may open.
Where to sleep beside the road
54 campsites and camper sites within 10 km of this road, from OpenStreetMap. A few between the two ends:
- ⛺ Camping Tanya Riaad · campsite · km 105, 0.5 km off the road
- ⛺ Caravan site / aire · camper site · km 560, 0.6 km off the road
- ⛺ Camping Rotarii · campsite · km 579, 0.7 km off the road
- ⛺ Cazare Turnu · campsite · km 635, 0.2 km off the road
- ⛺ Camping Camelot · campsite · km 637, 0.3 km off the road
- ⛺ Camping Burluși · campsite · km 677, 0 km off the road
Places of remembrance near the road: Boeing 767 vertical control surface (km 19).
Worth a detour
Between the two ends, within 10 km of the road — the places the map marks as notable.
- ◆ Votive Church of Szeged · attraction · km 169, 5.2 km off the road
- ◆ Bodrog Monastery · attraction · km 251, 5.5 km off the road
- ◆ La avion · attraction · km 373, 3.3 km off the road
- ◆ Castra Germisara · attraction · km 465, 1.8 km off the road
- ◆ Brukenthal National Museum · museum · km 560, 2.3 km off the road
- ◆ Curtea de Argeș Monastery · attraction · km 689, 4 km off the road
- ◆ Fortul Nr. 1 Chitila · fort · km 832, 6.7 km off the road
Plan this road from your own door: your car, your dates, the beds and the food priced the same honest way.