Hitchhiking in Hungary

Hungary on Hitchmap

Hitchhiking to Hungary

View all spots mentioning Hungary

Recent reviews in Hungary

46.04871, 17.82459

Get a ride to Pécs in 1 minute

―McKloc, April 2026

47.12612, 18.36318

Walk and hitch

―doktorgonzo, April 2026

47.14493, 18.39115

Only needed a very short ride but this spot seems goods to Balaton, that’s where my driver was headed.

―doktorgonzo, April 2026

47.44707, 18.90903

Not my favorite spot ever but it is still pretty good. Only needed to get to Fehervar and did so after a reasonable time. Drivers didn’t have positive reactions at first, but after smiling and waving a little most people were pretty nice

―doktorgonzo, April 2026

47.905, 17.1794

very few cars

―Huvelykujj, April 2026

47.87759, 17.25863

police bothered us here, but good spot

―Huvelykujj, April 2026

47.68173, 17.97853

not a lot of traffic

―Huvelykujj, April 2026

47.67848, 18.31824

good for short distance, try to go over Komarom for Gyor

―Huvelykujj, April 2026

47.48735, 18.57471

traffic a lil too fast, don't stand in a blind spot

―Huvelykujj, April 2026

46.83984, 16.86377

I got a ride to Nagykaniza. People are not that much hh friendly. Guy from Budapest picked me up after 45-60 minutes. Sunday 10am

―lovrec, April 2026

47.46476, 19.01324

McDonald employees don’t want you on the property, and some homeless people around which lowers your chances. Busy though

―Inni, March 2026

46.3722, 19.99715

I waited over 6 hours before getting a lift to Belgrade. People did not want to take me because they were worried about the border, even when I showed them my valid passport. I tried regular thumbing, sign with Belgrade, and asking. Sometimes I asked to go towards Romania, since most cars seemed to be going that way, but it did not work anyway. Mabye I should have spent more time asking people than hitchhiking, but it is the latter that eventually got me out of this hellhole (in which you can find Wifi, free toilets and food). Good luck

―Anonymous, March 2026

46.67882, 19.82544

Mabye I got lucky, cause there weren’t many cars going on the highway

―Anonymous, March 2026

47.4579, 19.11158

Hitchhiking in the morning, I got a good ride in a short time. Cars have a good place to stop.

―Anonymous, March 2026

47.63438, 17.66081

Spot looked decent at first, but for some reason I got stranded here for 10 hours. Took a ride to gyor in the end and a bus from there.

―Anonymous, March 2026

47.27526, 19.32507

Took the bus here from the city center (650HUF) as someone else suggested and got taken to Belgrade by the 3rd car that passed on a Monday morning. Good visibility and easy for cars to stop. Don't waste your time at the gas station down the road and go here instantly instead!

―akism, March 2026

47.44087, 19.13456

Maybe I was just VERY unlucky but to me it seems like a shit spot. Spent a total of 5 hours here over 2 days (Saturday and Monday morning) and no one would take us. I think people might be scared to stop on the bus lane at the highway, and the gas station just before the onramp gets only like 5 cars per minute of which 95% are local traffic. I'll try the station ~25km outside now, you can reach it easy by bus in 20min (500huf) although it only goes every 2hrs. 2 stars for the gas station with cheap food, coffee and bathroom so you can at least suffer with some caffeine ig

―akism, March 2026

47.42536, 19.14879

Tried this spot to get to Szeged. Shit to get there, few cars going on the highway and most of the ones that do will take an exit into the suburbs. They also cannot stop well since youre basically standing on the on-ramp. Don't go here!

―akism, March 2026

46.3722, 19.99715

First person I approved took my all the way to Bukarest. I had to pay 25€ at the end (my fault for not asking) but yk I still got super far. Station was busy.

―GermanyToIndia, March 2026

47.45932, 19.11042

Cars pass slowly and there is some grass to sit. No shade. After 30min I got picked up (after changing my sign to ‚25km M5‘ instead of Serbia). Still got 200km. I‘d recommend this spot over the one below.

―GermanyToIndia, March 2026

Recent reviews mentioning Hungary

48.1198, 17.13463

Tried this spot to get a ride to Hungary as an alternative to the highway entry near the UFO bridge thing since that one wasn't working at all in direction Györ/Budapest (with big sign). Here was very dead however, even though cars have lots of space to stop. Probably lots of traffic moving only into the suburbs. Only use as a last resort. You can probably camp very well in the nearby forest though

―akism, March 2026

48.09535, 17.21059

Not so frequent gas station, but last in Slovakia in a way to Austria/Hungary. We (couple) spent some time here and asking people directly and also with sign to Vienna/Graz, but we didn’t manage it to Graz that day.

―TwoThumbsTravel, February 2026

48.87898, 21.66745

only local trafic, no one was going to hungary and many dirty gypses around

―biuropodrozyalternatywnejpl, December 2025

46.02768, 14.48336

thumbing didn't seem to work, barely anyone stopped to ask where we were going (2 of us), and they mostly went either to the city or Maribor direction (we were trying for Hungary straight)

―Huvelykujj, November 2025

49.47568, 20.05103

I think the spot is great to go Slovakia but I was even luckier, I managed to go to Miskolc, Hungary with a Slovakia sign. The cars can see you from a distance and the bus stop is perfect for stopping.

―I4MTRUE, November 2025

45.7029, 13.94294

Typical highway station and rest place. Mostly trucks taking obligatory breaks. With some patience you can easily get at least to Ljubljana, with some Celje/Maribor or even Austria or Hungary

―mandat, October 2025

48.12478, 16.56222

Got a lift to Sopron after asking an Hungarian old man. Better chances to go to Hungary than in the Gas Station at Vienna East

―cavalierrustique, October 2025

48.18175, 16.44457

Really difficult place to go to Hungary, there is like 95% of locals and 5% that goes to Bratislava (we could go there 2 times). We took just a lift to the airport and see what happens.

―cavalierrustique, October 2025

48.34209, 19.68274

Trying to get to Hungary. After 92 minutes we walked further down the street.

―Chris9012, September 2025

48.34654, 19.67628

Trying to go to Hungary. After 87minutes we walked further down the road.

―Chris9012, September 2025

45.79463, 19.69438

A lot of traffic, mostly - but not only - cars from Germany, Austria, but also Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia. However! Germans won't take you, so it is better not to waste time with them...

―IGMartyOnTheMap, September 2025

48.18163, 16.44457

We were heading towards Budapest but few people were going towards Hungary. More people are heading to a nearby airport. So we caught a ride to the airport and from there we will try to catch a hitchhiking to Budapest.

―Moonhans, September 2025

45.94816, 22.65231

I tried asking drivers here if they could take me to Hungary. But I was very tired. So I just wrote a sign and someone picked me up.

―Okubobrakurbober, August 2025

47.92845, 17.10084

Verry good spot lots of cars. Walked from the train station Hegyeshalom to here in about a hour - quite a long distance but made sense for us because we had the Hungary pass.

―Anonymous, August 2025

47.92374, 17.11196

It's a really good spot. All of the cars to Hungary are passing by really slow. And there is a lot of space for the them to stop. Don't take the first ride to the next gas station and wait for the cars with longer destination. Spot is better then a gas station

―Anonymous, August 2025

48.65538, 21.2704

Within 30 minutes we hitchhiked a man who drove us straight to Budapest. Many cars are heading this way towards Hungary. Heavy traffic.

―Simi, August 2025

45.55905, 19.72031

If you travel from the Novi Sad Sever toll gate, there is a high chance that a lot of people from the area of Vrbas will stop for you. If you need to go further towards Subotica/Hungary, I wouldn't recommend catching rides just to Vrbas. The car speed at this spot is quite high, you can easily get stuck here.

―Vagabond, August 2025

48.08589, 17.09865

We got robbed here from two junk women and one rumunian guy tried a ring scam on us. Be aware. About the hh: Most of the cars go to Wiena. We wanted to go to hungary so kinda bad for us. Luckily some serbian truck driver saved us.

―MrErry77, August 2025

48.18034, 17.05462

Couldn't get a lift towards Hungary in 2,5 hours

―Adamcica, August 2025

45.12941, 18.31471

We got dropped off here at around 10pm and said "fuck it we ball", stood in the middle of the road with thumbs up once every 5mins when a car passed. Somehow we scored a ride to Gyor, which was our direction, but if you're going to Hungary and by some miracle end up here, best of luck. most drivers are either going to Zagreb or alomg the border towards Serbia. the hungarian cars thend to be families of 4. Also, illegal. Have fun ;)

―jebemtimamu, August 2025


© Hitchmap contributors