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Driving in Croatia

The licence plates you will see on the road in Croatia, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

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Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
90 km/h
Expressways
110 km/h
Motorways
130 km/h

Before you drive

Vignette and tolls
There is no vignette. Motorways charge a toll by distance; take a card at the entrance (or use an ENC tag) and pay at the exit. Expressways are free, apart from major tunnels.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

HR

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code HR. Plates carry it on the blue EU band, which counts as the country sign: no separate oval sticker is needed in the European Economic Area, and the plate is also valid in other countries of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry an area code that shows where the car was registered: 35 codes across 21 counties. For example:

ZG 1234-AB
Area codes on the mapAll area codes

Plates you will see

  • ZG 1234-AB

    Standard · Current

Special plates

Plate formats and history of Croatia

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