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Your vehicle is stamped into your passport for up to 730 days and must leave when you do. Fuel is cheaper than the EU and LPG is universal. Green card: Turkey is listed on most UK policies; check the European-part-only wording.
Drives on the right · TRY · reviewed 22 Oct 2026
Fuel this week
Per litre, with tax. Diesel is 54p cheaper than at home. Indicative national average, checked 19 Oct 2026. Turkey: prices move weekly with the lira; LPG is common and cheap. Figure: globalpetrolprices.com weekly survey, converted at the ECB dollar rate.
- Turkey → Bulgaria +12p
What to know
Tolls and vignettes
Motorways and the Bosphorus bridges use the HGS tag: buy one at a PTT post office at the border (about €5 plus credit). A van pays class 2, roughly €0.03 a km; Istanbul to Ankara about €15.
Clean air zones
None.
Sleeping in the van
Tolerated and often welcomed; petrol stations with restaurants expect you to stay. Beach car parks in the south are relaxed outside July and August.
Kit you must carry
Two warning triangles, first-aid kit, fire extinguisher.
Speed limits, van under 3.5 t
120 / 90 / 50
When to go
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey (west and south) | 12° | 13° | 16° | 20° | 25° | 30° | 33° | 33° | 29° | 24° | 18° | 13° |
A dot marks the months we would pick: warm enough, dry enough, not yet crowded. Rounded from 1991–2020 normals. Coasts and mountains differ from their region.
Fuel: European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices with taxes); Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Weekly road fuel prices (OGL v3); European Central Bank reference rate. EU figures are the week of 26 Oct 2026; UK the week of 26 Oct 2026; † marks hand-checked indicative figures for countries outside both series. Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Climate: rounded 1991–2020 normals from national meteorological services. Crossings and country notes are our own and dated. Something here is out of date already, so check before you go.