Biking in Croatia

Posted by The Madbiker on Sat, Sep 17, 2022

The speed limits in Croatia are 50 km/h (31 mph) in built up areas, 90 km/h (56 mph) outside built up areas, and 130 km/h (81 mph) on motorways.

In Croatia the motorways are numbered and prefixed with the letter A, the non motorway main roads are numbered, the smaller roads have the name of the place that the road lead to on them.

The Croatian motorways and the non motorway main roads that I rode on are of a good standard, the condition of the smaller roads are generally good but there is always the odd exception.

Like most countries in the Balkans, the motorways signs have a Green background with White numbers for the motorway number, the non motorway main road signs have a Blue background with White numbers, and signs for the smaller roads have a Yellow background with Black names.

At the time of writing Croatia do not use the Euro but that will soon change, petrol at the time of writing was the equivalent of about 1.40 Euros per litre.

I never saw any signs speed cameras nor any patrolling police vehicles.

My personal experience of biking in Croatia was limited to the North of the country above Zadar. Again like Montenegro the coast road is very scenic but heavily congested with slow moving tourist traffic.

I did not buy a SIM card for a mobile phone whilst I was in Croaia so I have no information about how to do this.