Highways in Hungary

Existing (blue), U/C (red) and planned (green) highway-network of Hungary as of 2015

The highways in Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország autópályái) are the central state roads in Hungary and are divided into motorways (autópálya) and expressways (autóút). Motorways are dual carriageways with a speed limit of 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph). They have white-on-blue road signs as in Czech Republic, Poland. Expressways are secondary roads, also dual carriageways, but without an emergency lane. They have a speed limit of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) and.

According to the Állami Autópályakezelő Zrt. ("State Motorway Management Plc."), the total length of the Hungarian motorway system was 1,400.6 kilometers in 2013. The construction of the Hungarian motorway system started in 1964 with M7, which finished in 1975 between Budapest and the Lake Balaton. The total length of the system reached 200 km in 1980, 500 km in 1998 and 1000 km in 2007.

History

Development of the overall length (at the end of):

Year	1964	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1996	2002	2006	2010	2014
Length in km	7	85	136	213	302	361	440	638	967	1,290	1,382

List of Hungarian motorways and expressways

Traffic sign for an autópálya (motorway)

Traffic sign for an autóút (expressway)

File:Hungary road sign G-401.svg

Information sign

• M0 →
  • ring road around Budapest
  • Total length: 108 km – Existing: 79 km (73.13 %)

• M1 →
  • Budapest - Bicske - Tatabánya - Tata - Győr - Mosonmagyaróvár - Hegyeshalom (Austrian border)
  • Total length: 171 km – Existing: 171 km (100.00 %)
• 30px M10
  • Budapest - Pilisvörösvár - Kesztölc (Slovakian border)
  • Total length: ~34 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
• M15 →
  • Levél (M1) - Rajka (Slovakian border)
  • Total length: 14 km – Existing: 14 km (100.00 %)
• 30px M19
  • Győrszentiván (M1) - Győr
  • Total length: 10 km – Existing: 10 km (100.00 %)

• M2 →
  • Budapest (M0) - Dunakeszi - Vác - Hont (Slovakian border)
  • Total length: 70 km – Existing: 32 km (45.71 %)
• 30px M25
  • Füzesabony (M3) - Eger
  • Total length: 12.6 km – Existing: 2.6 km (20.26 %)

• M3 → 35px 35px
  • Budapest - Gödöllő - Gyöngyös - Füzesabony - Mezőkövesd - Tiszaújváros - Polgár - Nyíregyháza - Vásárosnamény - Beregdaróc (Ukrainan border)
  • Total length: 307 km – Existing: 280 km (91.21 %)
• M30 → 35px
  • Mezőcsát (M3) - Emőd - Miskolc - Encs - Tornyosnémeti (Slovakian border)
  • Total length: 95 km – Existing: 28 km (29.47 %)
• M31 →
  • Nagytarcsa (M0) - Gödöllő (M3)
  • Total length: 12 km – Existing: 12 km (100.00 %)
• 30px M34
  • Vásárosnamény (M3) - Záhony (Ukrainan border)
  • Total length: ~38 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)
• 30px M35 → 35px 35px
  • Görbeháza (M3) - Hajdúböszörmény - Debrecen - Berettyóújfalu (M4)
  • Total length: 68.8 km – Existing: 44 km (63.95 %)

• M4 →
  • Budapest - Üllő - Cegléd - Szolnok - Törökszentmiklós - Karcag - Püspökladány - Berettyóújfalu - Nagykereki (Romanian border)
  • Total length: 233 km – Existing: 29 km (12.45 %)
• M43 → 35px
  • Szeged (M5) - Algyő - Makó - Csanádpalota (Romanian border)
  • Total length: 57.7 km – Existing: 57.7 km (100.00 %)
• 30px M44
  • Kecskemét (M8) - Szarvas - Békéscsaba - Gyula (Romanian border)
  • Total length: ~138 km – Existing: 26 km (18.84 %)
• 30px M49
  • Kántorjánosi (M3) - Csenger (Romanian border)
  • Total length: 48 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)

• M5 →
  • Budapest - Kecskemét - Kiskunfélegyháza - Szeged - Röszke (Serbian border)
  • Total length: 174 km – Existing: 174 km (100.00 %)
• M51
  • Budapest (M5) - Dunaharaszti (M0)
  • Total length: 12 km – Existing: 12 km (100.00 %)

• M6 →
  • Budapest (M0) - Dunaújváros - Paks - Szekszárd - Mohács - Ivándárda (Croatian border)
  • Total length: 212 km – Existing: 193 km (91.04 %)
• M60
  • Bóly (M6) - Pécs - Szigetvár - Barcs (Croatian border)
  • Total length: 56 km – Existing: 30 km (53.57 %)

• M7 →
  • Budapest - Érd - Székesfehérvár - BALATON - Nagykanizsa - Letenye (Croatian border)
  • Total length: 233 km – Existing: 233 km (100.00 %)
• 30px M70 → 35px
  • Letenye (M7) - Tornyiszentmiklós (Slovenian border)
  • Total length: 21 km – Existing: 21 km (100.00 %)

• 30px M8 → 35px
  • Szolnok (M4) - Kecskemét - Dunaújváros - BALATON - Veszprém - Ajka - Körmend - Szentgotthárd (Austrian border)
  • Total length: 330.2 km – Existing: 34.8 km (10.54 %)
• 30px M85
  • Győr (M1) - Csorna - Sopron (Austrian border)
  • Total length: ~80 km – Existing: 16 km (20.00 %)
• 30px M86 →
  • Szombathely - Csorna - Mosonmagyaróvár (M1)
  • Total length: 115 km – Existing: 17,56 km (15.27 %)
• 30px M87
  • Szombathely (M86) - Kőszeg (Austrian border)
  • Total length: 20 km – Existing: 0 km (00.00 %)

• 30px M9
  • Szombathely (M86) - Zalaegerszeg - Nagykanizsa - Kaposvár - Dombóvár - Szekszárd - Szeged (M5)
  • Total length: ~300 km – Existing: 20.6 km (6.87 %)

Expressways

• Road 3 between M3 and Gyöngyös (7 km)
• Several parts of Road 4 between Budapest and Püspökladány
• Road 5 between M5 and Kecskemét (8 km)
• Road 6 between Szekszárd and Tolna (4 km)
• Several parts of Road 8 between Veszprém and Székesfehérvár
• Road 11 between Budapest and Szentendre (4 km and 9 km within the city limit of Budapest)
• Several parts of Road 21 between Hatvan and Salgótarján
• Road 26 between Miskolc and Sajóbábony (10 km)
• Road 44 between Békéscsaba and Gyula (11 km)
• Road 47 between Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely (24 km)
• Road 84 between Sopron and the border with Austria (4 km)

Correlation with European routes

This is a list of European routes that shows which parts of them run through Hungary.

West-East routes:

431 km	– Hegyeshalom, Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Cegléd, Szolnok, Püspökladány, Nagykereki –
38px 190 km	20px – 25px 25px Szentgotthárd, Körmend, Ajka, Veszprém, Székesfehérvár
38px 58 km	Szeged, Makó, Csanádpalota –
38px 21 km	30px – 25px Tornyiszentmiklós, Letenye

North-South routes:

255 km	– Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár - 25px 25px Csorna, Szombathely - Körmend - 25px Zalaegerszeg - Nagykanizsa, Letenye –
495 km	– Tornyosnémeti, Miskolc - Gyöngyös, Gödöllő - , Budapest bypass - Székesfehérvár, Siófok, Nagykanizsa, Letenye –
212 km	Budapest, Érd, Dunaújváros, Szekszárd, Mohács, Ivándárda –
348 km	– Rajka - Mosonmagyaróvár, Győr, Tatabánya - Budapest bypass - Kecskemét, Kiskunfélegyháza, Szeged, Röszke –
70 km	30px – Hont, Vác, Dunakeszi, Budapest
38px 162 km	Miskolc - Polgár - 25px Debrecen, Berettyóújfalu, Nagykereki –
38px 158 km	Püspökladány, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza, Záhony –
38px 92 km	25px Balatonkeresztúr, Marcali, Nagyatád, Barcs –

See also

• Transport in Hungary

References

References

• Magyarország autóatlasz (Road atlas of Hungary), Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2004
• Magyarország autóatlasz (Road atlas of Hungary), Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2013

External links

• Home page of the National Toll Payment Services Plc.
• Detailed map of the Hungarian motorway system (2015)