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Hitchhiking in Serbia

Hitchhiking to Serbia

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43.02167, 22.73635

Good spot by the poll station to get a ride to Sofia/Bulgaria. There were a few policemen doing controls but they weren’t interested in us and didn’t stop us. You can even reach this spot by foot (that’s what we did) from Dimitrovgrad by hitchhiking to a spot on the local road nearby and then there’s a path to the toll station. (check out the map)
There was a fence around the station but it had big holes you could claim through and toll station employees and police didn’t mind.

rating: 5/5, wait: 3 min 🪧, ride: 75 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.40586, 22.58353

Spot to hitchhike up to Babin Zub, the starting points of many hiking routes, including up to Midzor. Even in offside season, we got picked up quite fast. Not many cars, only other hiking tourists, but they are happy to give you a ride.

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

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.36896, 22.59065

Spot to hitchhike back from Babin Zub to villages like Crni vrh or further down to the valley after hiking. Fellow hikers are very nice and pick you up to give you a ride down.

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 5 km ↑

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.41172, 22.42642

Spot to get up into Stara Planina mountains. (Crni vrh village, babin zub) Almost no traffic, but the locals are very nice and helping and you get picked up.

You can just sit there and read a book or so, enjoy the fresh mountain air and every twenty minutes or so when a car comes thumbing.. :) Although this is my experience outside the tourist season. During skiing season or on summer weekends it might be more traffic.

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 16 km →

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.34225, 21.93638

Good spot at the toll to hitchhike out of Nis for both directions! Only disadvantage is that you have to walk a few kilometers to get here (see hitchwiki for directions!) and that there’s no shadow.

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 70 km →

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.52956, 21.70742

Really bad spot! We were dropped off here in the early evening and tried to get to Nis from it. Almost no cars at all stop here.
But you can walk from here to the
Bus station on the other side of the bridge and from there, many busses go to Nis for a cheap price.

rating: 1/5

―Anonymous, September 2025

43.19235, 22.56316

It's hard to say how good this place is. We were heading towards Sofia/Istanbul -> the driver heading to Pirot left us there saying it was a good place. Generally, cars don't drive very fast there – they see you and your sign, but there's no gas station or anything like that. After about half an hour, we managed to catch a truck heading to Sofia. There are often queues of trucks at the border, so there's a chance you'll cross the border and ask drivers one by one if they can take you to Istanbul. We finally made it to Sofia that day, but I think there's a chance you'll catch a driver going further.

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 92 km ↘

―Moonhans, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 16:30

43.38256, 21.80804

If you're heading towards Sofia/Istanbul, this is an average spot for hitchhiking; more drivers head towards Greece/Macedonia. We tried to hitchhike at a gas station for 2.5 hours, then moved directly onto the highway. After 45 minutes, a driver heading to Pirot stopped us. I don't know if we were unlucky or if it's actually a bad spot. It's hard to say. (Perhaps we should ask the drivers at the Nais Hotel on the other side.) Overall, it's a good place for a wild camping trip – there's a quiet meadow behind the fence, and if you need one, there's a shop and a toilet.

rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min 💬+🪧, ride: 81 km →

―Moonhans, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 14:25

44.83099, 20.36974

Very bad spot for trying to hitchhike beyond Belgrade. Only local traffic. Also the employees of the gas station were really unfriendly and asked us to move away from their gas station.
Finally we gave up and put “Belgrade center” on our sign, getting a lift to Novi Belgrade to a bus station immediately. From there we took a bus to the city center and then took anther bus to an appropriate spot on the other side of the city (see hitchwiki!!!). From there it was very easy

rating: 1/5, ride: 6 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2025

45.17999, 19.839

Lots of space to stop for cars and they see you well. Got a ride to Novi Sad immediately.

rating: 5/5, wait: 3 min 👍, ride: 10 km ↑

―Anonymous, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 22:18

45.28825, 19.89088

We got here accidentally when hitchhiking to Novi Sad. Lots of traffic, but most of them go more far than Novi Sad and can’t drop you off at a highway exit to Nobody Sad because of this “Novi Sad bypass” highway design. (Check it out on a map!) Still we were lucky and got a ride to Novi sad quickly by asking around.

rating: 3/5, wait: 10 min 💬, ride: 7 km ↙

―Anonymous, September 2025

44.57411, 20.64733

We tried to hitchhike towards Nisz/Sofia, heading towards Istanbul. After a few conversations, we managed (with a good deal of luck) to catch a driver heading towards Nisz. The driver was so kind and positive that he took us to Nisz, even though he was going slightly in the opposite direction. What's more, he took us to a huge dinner at a good local restaurant. (We broke the speed record while hitchhiking, reaching 188 km/h.) Overall, it seems like a great place to hitchhike towards Sofia, with heavy traffic from cars and trucks.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 💬+🪧, ride: 202 km ↘

―Moonhans, Tue 09 Sep 2025, 16:00

44.71766, 20.50095

We tried to hitchhike towards Nisz/Sofi. We didn't have time to part well when a very nice TIR driver stopped. He didn't go to Nisz, but he drove us to a large gas station from where it seems that we should easily catch something towards Sofia. In general, the place of great cars slow down is contact with drivers and entry on the A1 road.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 25 km ↘

―Moonhans, Tue 09 Sep 2025, 14:45

44.20516, 21.10814

Waited HOURS to get a lift. (But I was also very unlucky). German cars won't help you. Try asking Austrian or Serbian.

rating: 2/5, ride: 85 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, September 2025

44.6912, 20.58475

Hated this spot. Just locals going nowhere. After 2,5h waiting and asking people, I decided to get to better spot. It was indeed much better. You can walk there (40mins), or you can ask some Serbians to give you 1 minute ride.
I don't recommend this place. Move away from here.

rating: 1/5, wait: 150 min 💬, ride: 2 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 16:30

44.70469, 20.57487

A lot of Serbians cars going after the work (16-17:00) back home. A lot of traffic. I believe this is a good spot (especially for Serbia, where they don't usually take hitchhikers). You don't even need a sign.
True that you won't get far though.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 78 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 16:53

45.14555, 20.08445

If you get closer to the northern border, you will see more foreign cars, so it is the best to ask some Serbians to get you closer to Subotica.

rating: 3/5, wait: 10 min 💬, ride: 98 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, 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...

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬, ride: 457 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 20:10

46.03048, 19.73575

We were lucky. Lots of truck drivers going. No place to hide from sun and almost no place to stop for the car. But luckily serbians don't care.

rating: 2/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 98 km ↓

―JJ, September 2025

46.06439, 19.68029

Cars can easily stop on the parking lot. Although lot of people only travelling localy.

rating: 3/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 7 km ↘

―JJ, September 2025

Recent reviews mentioning Serbia

44.70469, 20.57487

47.63323, 17.6617

It seems to be a pretty good place to hitchhiking in the direction of Budapest. There is a gas station, a large parking lot for which trucks and passenger cars stand. The station can be reached directly from the E60 road. We tried to catch transport from there to Budapest (from where we wanted to go further towards Belgrade) we were lucky and we came across a driver from Serbia who easily offered us a ride to Belgrade. In general, the traffic is quite high and a lot of locals and tourists. (There is also a Tesla charging station so maybe you can hitchhiking a Tesla)

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 474 km ↘

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 18:30

46.24273, 20.12715

We used this spot to go to the Serbian border. Not many cars going to the highway/to Serbia from here, mostly local traffic. There is a traffic light that’s red very often for the cars, so they stand a lot and can see you well. There is space to pick you up.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 15 km ↙

―Anonymous, September 2025

44.80577, 19.25974

Good place to catch a ride to Tuzla, traffic is slow and many cars returning from Serbia are passing there

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 73 km ↙

―szymanski, August 2025

46.54577, 19.88455

Don't accept rides to Csengele if you want to go to Serbia, you may eventually get lucky and get out of this godforsaken place but you'll lose a lot of time trying, mostly tourists with packed cars or truck drivers heading towards Romania stop there

rating: 2/5, wait: 150 min, ride: 48 km ↘

―szymanski, August 2025

58.91473, 11.25982

Gas station and rest area – a perfect spot for both northbound and southbound directions! Many cars heading to Oslo and Gothenburg, and one was even going all the way back to Serbia. Ask people at the gas station and in the charging area. I got a ride to Oslo.

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min 💬+🪧, ride: 143 km ↑

―denwer, Sun 20 Jul 2025, 22:30

45.50585, 16.66036

Decent spot to go on further through the highway diretion Bosnia and Hercegovina or Serbia. A track driver took us to another gas station.

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 💬+🪧, ride: 44 km ↘

―jchymski, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 15:15

45.14838, 18.27298

Good spot going to Serbia

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 224 km →

―tomasfogl, August 2025

45.8034, 16.11591

Good spot going towards east and Serbia, reachible by public transport

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 229 km ↘

―tomasfogl, 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 ;)

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 👍, ride: 360 km ↑

―jebemtimamu, Thu 07 Aug 2025, 22:00

43.79382, 19.0052

Good stop to go in direction of Visegrad. We got a ride with Serb, that was going to Kraljevo in Serbia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 28 km →

―Magik, August 2025

46.3722, 19.99715

Not a lot of people go in direction of Serbia. Got a lift with a Serb.

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 28 km ↓

―Magik, August 2025

45.80383, 16.11405

Impossible here - i would go serbia but I wait 1 day and half and I gave up…

rating: 1/5, wait: 999 min

―Anonymous, July 2025

41.13405, 22.54889

We were 2 guys. A lot of cars passing through, they are going slow so they can clearly see you. When we were there, it was the middle of July so must of the cars were families going home from vacation so cars were full. After like 2 hours we declined 1 ride to Gevgelija. After another 2 hours we finally got a ride and it was all the way to Belgrade, we had a sign Serbia. Before we also tried with sign Skopje.

rating: 4/5, wait: 240 min 🪧, ride: 552 km ↑

―simsvob, Fri 18 Jul 2025, 13:30

47.4579, 19.11158

Good spot! A nice guy from Sgezedin took us to the borders with Serbia!

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min

―Jaxii13, July 2025

47.76734, 12.9482

Another attempt with a Villach/Slovenia sign, on a weekday, not many vans. First day waited 2 hours with no luck, second day was just about to give up when a Serbian guy (going to Serbia) took me. Be patient. There is a supermarket in the village 3 km north, u can use the tunnel to get to the other side of highway and there is a small road that goes to the village. When u get at Bundesstrasse, on your right, just where the forest ends and farm houses bedin, there is a very nice hunters tower where you can spend the nite and save time on pitching the tent

rating: 2/5, wait: 200 min, ride: 280 km ↘

―Anonymous, Tue 13 May 2025, 14:55

48.01091, 17.17682

Managed to hitch a ride straight to Romania. Plenty of traffic towards Hungary, Romania and Serbia, especially on fridays and saturdays. Great spot certainly worth the walk from the nearest Bratislava bus stop ("Čunovské jazerá").

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 506 km ↘

―suburbandrifter, Mon 16 Jun 2025, 10:30

46.17259, 19.98113

Very good spot after the frontier. To go in Serbia, good space to stop for the cars, and they see you from far away.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 17 km ↘

―LilouLao, Wed 18 Jun 2025, 18:30

46.97031, 15.4301

when I got here in the afternoon I had absolutely no issues getting a ride to slovenia. if there is someone going to Maribor, try to get dropped off at the border rest stop on the slovenian side. People have to stop there to buy a highway pass. lots of cars going to serbia and bosnia

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 💬, ride: 46 km ↘

―Leomagdich, June 2025

43.93086, 20.40154

It's a highway and there's a whole unused line for cars to stop. Traffic is going surprisingly slow and drivers can easily see you. Got a ride to Montenegro direction in less than 10 minutes.

Technically hitchhiking on the highway is illegal, but come on, who cares about rules in Serbia?

That's why I love Balkans where you don't get 150 euros fine for doing something innocent and nobody will ever snitch on you.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 39 km ←

―bogdanpanov, Tue 03 Jun 2025, 15:40