What the Florești commute costs

Driving in from Florești or taking the M21? Set how many days a week you make the trip and see what each way costs over a year — fuel, parking and fares, cheapest first.

[data-tool-body-wait]{display:none}This part of the page needs JavaScript, and this browser isn’t running it. Everything else on the page still reads.

This still hasn’t loaded. It looks stuck rather than slow, so reloading is worth a try now.

Reload the page Other tools for Cluj-Napoca

About these tools

Town Tools builds free, public tools for Cluj-Napoca and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.

Worth knowing

This page is about money. The thing people are angry about is time.

Nothing here measures how long the trip takes, and the DN1 at 08:00 is the reason most people think about this journey at all. Two of Cluj's own pages do answer that, and they are the ones to open on the morning itself: /cluj-napoca-cluj-ro/dn1-floresti is a neighbour-reported board of how the road is running right now, and /cluj-napoca-cluj-ro/next-bus gives the next departure on the Florești lines from CTP's own timetables.

It also compares running costs only — fuel, parking and fares. It leaves out the fixed cost of keeping a car: insurance, RCA, tax, the ITP, servicing, tyres and what the car loses in value. That is deliberate. Folding those in would flatter the bus for someone who is keeping their car whatever this page says, and most people here are.

The six lanes open on 1 September 2026, and nobody knows yet what they do

The DN1 Cluj–Florești has just been widened from four lanes to six, with about 3.5 km of lane dedicated to buses and emergency vehicles each way, from the Calvaria bridge to the site of the Regional Emergency Hospital. The city says full traffic from 1 September 2026 — three days after this page was written.

That could change both columns and in opposite directions: a bus lane makes the bus faster and more reliable, while six lanes may pull more cars onto the road. The money on this page does not move on 1 September — the fares, the tariffs and the fuel price are what they are — but whether the answer still feels right will be a different question in October. Worth re-reading then.

If you are a student, the bus column is very likely zero

CTP lists free travel for students, master's students and doctoral students under 30 who are enrolled full-time at a university in Cluj-Napoca, under the higher-education law, Legea nr. 199/2023. In a city with roughly 100,000 students that is a large share of the people making this trip, and it changes the comparison completely — against a free pass, driving in is not competing with 1,380 lei a year, it is competing with nothing.

Way	You drive	Cost a day
The bus — M21, M22, M24, M26, M27	—	8.00 lei
Drive in and park in the Moților garage	18.3 km	76.22 lei
Drive in and park at Cipariu, La Terenuri or Hașdeu	18.3 km	from 36.22 lei
Drive in and park free outside the paid zones, then walk	18.3 km	12.22 lei

What the Florești commute costs

About these tools

What each way costs over a year

Your ways to central Cluj-Napoca

Worth knowing

This page is about money. The thing people are angry about is time.

The six lanes open on 1 September 2026, and nobody knows yet what they do

If you are a student, the bus column is very likely zero

Check the live fares

Why the airport Park & Ride is not on this list

Where every figure came from, and when