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Driving in Hungary

The licence plates you will see on the road in Hungary, 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
Motorways and expressways need a vignette (e-matrica). It has been electronic since 2008, and roadside cameras check it by reading the plate number. The official shop is nemzetiutdij.hu.

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

H

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code H. 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 no regional code, so the letters and numbers do not tell where a car is from.

Plates you will see

  • AA AB-123

    Standard · Since 2022

Older plates still on the road

  • ABC-123

    Standard · 1990–2022

Plate formats and history of Hungary

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