Driving in Slovenia
Driving in SloveniaThe licence plates you will see on the road in Slovenia, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.
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 need a vignette for vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. Since December 2021 it is electronic only, registered to the plate number; the official shop is evinjeta.dars.si.
Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.
Country code
Cars registered here show the country code SLO. 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: 11 codes across 58 administrative units. For example:
GO AB-123Plates you will see
- LJ AB-123
Standard · Since 1992
Plate formats and history of Slovenia