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Hitchhiking in Croatia

Hitchhiking to Croatia

Recent reviews in Croatia

43.59476, 16.57283

A Croatian guy also hitchhiking gave up after about an hour.

rating: 4/5, wait: 133 min 🪧, ride: 149 km ↖

―Chris9012, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 15:23

43.51877, 16.48183

Got a ride to the toll gates at Dugopolje.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 14 km ↗

―Chris9012, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 13:21

After 43mins decided to walk to the next onramp which has better space for drivers to stop. Ofcourse, a "mad man driver" would have no issue stopping here.

rating: 1/5, wait: 43 min 👍

―Chris9012, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 12:20

43.0244, 17.55164

The gas station was closed and the fruit vendors didn't like us even sitting on 'their' parking.

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 128 km ↖

―Chris9012, Sat 06 Sep 2025, 16:43

45.58051, 17.22158

After about 50 minutes at the gas station we just started walking and were rewarded right away.

rating: 3/5, wait: 53 min 🪧, ride: 20 km ↓

―Chris9012, Sun 31 Aug 2025, 09:00

45.73584, 17.13362

After one and a half hour in the hell-hole we decided to just start walking and were picked up by 2 Indian guys in a pickup truck right away.

rating: 1/5, wait: 92 min 👍, ride: 8 km ←

―Chris9012, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 16:41

45.69133, 17.17841

Because the road going west from Grubisno Polje was closed we tried going around to Veliki Grdevac and Daruvar. In hinsight we should have walked the closed road to the junction because we got stuck in the middle of nowhere.

rating: 1/5, wait: 80 min 👍, ride: 7 km ↖

―Chris9012, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 13:49

45.74618, 18.17165

Not the best spot because cars can‘t stop too well. But good enough. We were lucky and found someone who took us all the way to zepce with some detours

rating: 3/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 197 km ↓

―Cici, September 2025

43.46288, 16.84132

I was dropped off here by a local, but had to wait here quite some while before someone picked me up. Spot itself isn’t bad, people can see you and your sign and have a place where to stop before and after the toll. I had a sign Split/Zagreb. Eventually an American couple stopped and they were driving to Ljubljana!!!

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min 🪧, ride: 325 km ↑

―anettlee17, Fri 12 Sep 2025, 14:00

42.94388, 17.54076

Not an ideal spot. But it worked. Maybe just luck

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 57 km ↘

―FightingMonkeys, September 2025

43.69066, 16.04003

Loads of cars but bad luck for us,

rating: 3/5, wait: 240 min 💬, ride: 362 km ↖

―waldlaeufer, Tue 09 Sep 2025, 13:00

45.92657, 15.82825

Got stuck here for nearly 5 hours. There is a lot of traffic here but no one wanted to pick us up

rating: 3/5, wait: 300 min 👍, ride: 350 km ↖

―LJIsTooShort, Sun 07 Sep 2025, 18:50

44.96706, 15.0752

Don't come here. Very little traffic + middle of nowhere. We where kinda lucky to get a ride even though It was in de opposit direction of our planned destination.

rating: 1/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 43 km ↗

―Anonymous, September 2025

45.12152, 14.8062

Long wait time for us( 2 dudes). Car slow down in the turn and can stop at the entrance of the parking. Maybe if you are alone or a girl you will get picked up sooner.

rating: 4/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 21 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2025

45.32412, 14.44633

Friendly local took us(2 dudes) exactly where we wanted to go. Even stopped at a store so we could get beer. Awesome dude.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 22 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2025

45.30917, 15.27932

Waited a long time ( 2 dudes). Dude who picked us was drinking behind the wheel. Took us all the way to the center of Zadar tho.

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 168 km ↓

―FightingMonkeys, September 2025

45.23049, 15.26228

Takes some time to get a ride. Probably because of the no Autostop sign. People only go in the direction of Zagreb m. If you wanna go south, you should take a ride to dobra gas station. You can get to the other side of the highway via a tunnel.

rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 11 km ↑

―FightingMonkeys, September 2025

43.69104, 16.03858

Not too much traffic but good spots to stop cars.

rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min 💬, ride: 143 km ↖

―roadlifehacks, Sat 06 Sep 2025, 18:30

44.46331, 15.60142

Easy to talk to tourists that go north

rating: 5/5, wait: 3 min, ride: 171 km ↖

―Tjarko, September 2025

43.40059, 17.03878

I went north and it was very easy to find a ride that takes you north on the highway, many tourists that go to germany, slowenia or austria

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 146 km ↖

―Tjarko, September 2025

Recent reviews mentioning Croatia

46.04475, 17.98438

Sign "Barcs". Got a ride into Croatia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 4 min 🪧, ride: 92 km ↙

―Chris9012, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 12:00

45.79573, 18.20608

Lot‘s of option but mostly only short rides to the next city in croatia

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 8 km ↙

―Cici, September 2025

47.5425, 16.11634

A lot of people going to croatia on vacation, but with already full cars. However many people are also going to Graz

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 97 km ↙

―Anonymous, August 2025

46.53148, 15.69887

Good Spot to go to Croatia but you need some time, I stood at the exit with a sign Zagreb Lubljana, possible to sleep near the River

rating: 4/5, wait: 90 min 🪧, ride: 229 km ↓

―Amon, August 2025

47.45278, 18.95595

There was no one going towards Slovenia or Croatia. Everyone was local people, and on top of that the gas station was under reconstruction. Only the McDonald's was open, but even there it was just locals.

rating: 1/5

―Simi, August 2025

43.19774, 17.66391

Not perfect spot but it works, there is tiny space for car to stop but the traffic is low anyway. Got ride to Croatia

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 22 km ↓

―tomasfogl, August 2025

43.33484, 17.79584

there is a little space for cars to stop, we got ride a bit towards Croatia

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 18 km ↙

―tomasfogl, August 2025

44.93474, 19.91525

Worst place you can find for hitchhiking. We waited here for more than a day in the summer. Every car is rather full of families returning from vacation or refugees with car from switzerland. We had a cardboard saying Hrvatska, then we switched to Croatia, then we just asked people, but nobody wanted to take us or they had full car. After day on this gas station it seems like spawn for refugees with expensive cars. Stay in Belgrad instead, it's a nice city

rating: 1/5, wait: 1440 min 💬+🪧

―Agamaj, Sat 09 Aug 2025, 16:00

45.63942, 13.77379

Goal: Slovenia/Croatia
Waited there and no car stopped, nearly 0 Slovenian pass by

rating: 1/5, wait: 25 min 🪧

―Eli, August 2025

44.83177, 20.36919

Its okey place to go in direction of Croatia, Cacak or Novi Sad. After 40 min with sign "Novi Sad" we got a ride where we needed.

rating: 5/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 85 km ↖

―Magik, August 2025

41.00949, -8.55482

Searching hitch to croatia from close porto (Portugal)

rating: 1/5, wait: 200 min, ride: 2507 km →

―alterivo, August 2025

46.02846, 14.4796

Not much traffic to Croatia, many full cars and families, most going North East, finally got a Swedish couple to take three of us Southish, where I got out at Novo Mesto to try my luck again for Zagreb.

rating: 2/5, wait: 180 min 🪧, ride: 73 km →

―Anonymous, Sun 03 Aug 2025, 16:34

45.75157, 14.1925

Lots of traffic due to a 2cv citroen car festival. It meant a lot of the traffic was local but there were also cars going further. I was picked up by a smart car. My first time in a smart car - they're bigger than you think!

Driver took me past where he was going and dropped me at the border crossing for Croatia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 38 km ↓

―andyt94, Thu 31 Jul 2025, 15:09

45.5161, 13.60108

bus stop towards Croatia. found a car to Pula eventually. use a sign HR

rating: 4/5, ride: 93 km ↓

―dr4c3k, July 2025

48.09675, 16.31663

Not sure about this spot, but we (2 people) catched a ride with a sign with woman going on vacation to croatia. Guess you have to be lucky here

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 225 km ↓

―McSymilian06, July 2025

45.55382, 18.64071

Only gas station when you want to get out of the city direction south. We had no other option so we stayed there more than two hours, many people going to Hungary or west of croatia. At the end we were just super lucky and one guy took us to huge highway parking place behind Dakovo

rating: 2/5, wait: 130 min, ride: 49 km ↙

―Kamionpicokamion, July 2025

45.85392, 15.68523

croatia joined schengen in 2023 so this border is no longer strictly controlled and cars might be more willing to pick you up. but still, if you can, try get dropped at the service station before this one. we might have been here longer but we got a ride quick enough to zagreb from someone going to bosnia.

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 28 km →

―Leslie, Sat 12 Jul 2025, 16:40

49.89685, 20.10182

Poland is so easy to hitchike broo random bus stops I didn't even have a sign and a guy in a TRUCK stopped on the bus stop and took me to tarnow. Poland is the easiest country to autostop in my opinion (I've hitchhiked in Germany, Belgium, france, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, bosnia so I guess I know what I'm saying)

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 78 km →

―AdamMati, July 2025

47.06411, 15.58258

not a great spot to be dropped if you can avoid it. on a weekday in july there was mostly cars going to graz and south west austria. a few polish drivers going to croatia for holidays, as well as trucks staying the night. we hoped for a ride to slovenia but settled for a lift to klagenfurt where its easy to hitch to ljubljana.

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min 💬+🪧, ride: 136 km ↙

―Leslie, Thu 10 Jul 2025, 16:00

45.64039, 13.8635

The spot is not perfect. People doesn’t stop but we are not surprised its italy. We were lucky a croatian take us to rijeka. Advice : put you in the center of the intersection to get the both road if you want to go to Croatia or Slovénia

rating: 3/5, wait: 45 min, ride: 62 km ↘

―Marius, July 2025