Hitchhiking from Vienna to Budapest
About 4 h 16 min of hitchhiking — roughly 287 km in 2 ride(s), including about 1 h 24 min of waiting by the road. These figures come from rides hitchhikers logged on this map, not from an estimate.
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Step by step
- Get from Vienna to BP — 2.5 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
- Hitch 5.0 km (3 min) from BP to Raststation Simmering. Expect around 30 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
- Hitch 281.9 km (2 h 49 min) from Raststation Simmering to Budapest. Expect around 54 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
- Get from a hitchhiking spot near Budapest to Budapest — 2.4 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
What hitchhikers said along this route
“Asked around and got picked quickly by Hungarian lady. Amazing spot being in the city center”
― Anonymous, Sat 2024-09-28 · BP
“Asked around at the gas station. Many lovely people willing to take you somewhere but not many going to Bratislava or Budapest. Waited 15min and got a ride to the next gas station which I recommend more.”
― Anonymous, Mon 2023-07-24 · BP
“there is a MC DONALDS restaurant next to the gasstation seen on the image. if you wait in front of it (or even inside) there is many drivers comming in and out. i wanted to go in winter 2010 (january) to gyoer (hungary) and it took me 20 minutes to find someone. the car was going to romania (via budapest and cluj-napoca) and the driver was offering me a ride much further than to the 110 kilometer ”
― Anonymous · Raststation Simmering
“Lots of cars going East, but need to be aggressive in asking while they are stationary. Cars going East will be turning on the curve at high speed with little space to stop.”
― Anonymous, Tue 2011-05-31 · Raststation Simmering
“This spot is okay. We(a cute girl and a hairy guy) had no sign, but got the first offer after ten minutes, unfortunately they only went to the other side of the Hungarian boarder. Our plan was to go to Bratislava, but when we 20 minutes later got a ride to budapest we changed plans. All in all, this spot is great.”
― Anonymous, Mon 2012-04-02 · Raststation Simmering
“it is easy to find a car to Budapest. just stay the station door and ask peaople. it took just five minutes for budapest on 23th of December 2011”
― Kralx15, Fri 2011-12-23 · Raststation Simmering
“In 5 minutes I found a driver who was going to Neusiedl and I asked him to take me to the next Raststation, but he was so nice that he took me to the gas station at Nickelsdorf. There I found a ride to Timisoara, Romania in another 5 minutes.”
― Anonymous, Thu 2011-08-04 · Raststation Simmering
“Very good place to catch cars to Bratislava and Budapest, but the thing is to persuade people (almost intrusive, but polite). Watch out for licence plates of cars and you will find what you want :)”
― Prosektor, Tue 2013-07-30 · Raststation Simmering
“That is a poor spot to catch a car to Hungary on Sunday morning. What's more please be carefull if see the police and don't go across the highway, even if there is no car!! Unless you like to pay 100EUR!”
― Czlowieczki, Sat 2015-10-24 · Raststation Simmering
“Good spot, found a ride to Bratislava in about 30 minutes.”
― Teark, Thu 2013-05-23 · Raststation Simmering
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Waiting times and distances are averages from community-logged rides. Travel time assumes 100 km/h in a car and 5 km/h walking. They are not guarantees.