Balkan Borders
WAITUP TO 30 MIN30 – 90 MINOVER 90 MINLast read· reads hourly
Cars

Horgoš – Röszke

up to 30 minLong enough to stretch your legs.
0 30 90 180+
LIVE · MUPMUP
LIVE · MUPMUP

The camera might miss the queue, or be filming its tail — so a slow crossing can look quiet here.

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Also at this crossing

ENTERING HUNGARY · Trucksup to 30 min
ENTERING SERBIA · Carsup to 30 min
ENTERING SERBIA · Trucksup to 30 min

Typical week

This is what the last month looked like here. Not a forecast, and not advice. A guiding light, nothing more.

ENTERING HUNGARY

WHEN IT'S BEEN WORST

Saturday mornings

usually 30–60min in the queue

from our analyses of the last month

Typical week — ENTERING HUNGARY
Night00–06Morning06–12Afternoon12–18Evening18–24
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun

Based on our own hourly readings from the last month.

Each cell is the middle half of our readings for that stretch: a quarter of the time it was quicker, a quarter of the time longer. Cars only. Times are local to the crossing (Serbia).

Last seven days · peak minutes

up to 30

Sun 6

up to 30

Mon 7

up to 30

Tue 8

up to 30

Wed 9

up to 30

Thu 10

up to 30

Fri 11

up to 30

Sat 12

What to expect

The single busiest passenger crossing for the Balkan diaspora heading to and from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cars back up hardest outbound (leaving Serbia toward Hungary) on summer Fridays and Saturdays, and on the late-August return wave; the inbound direction peaks in early July. Because both sides process every car, delays quoted for the Serbian side stack on top of Hungarian processing.

Going further?Plan the drive

TipWhen Horgoš is jammed, Kelebija–Tompa (a few km west) or Bački Vinogradi are the usual car alternates.

Road
A1/E75 (Serbia) to M5 (Hungary) — the main diaspora corridor between Central Europe and the Balkans
Hours
Open 24/7
EU EES
Hungary is in the Schengen Area, so the EU Entry/Exit System applies on the Hungarian side — non-EU travellers may be fingerprinted and photographed on first crossing, which adds time at peak.EES applies here — see what the queues actually did →

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