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.
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6.00 lei a day · Any CTP metropolitan stop along the DN1 through Florești.
Cheapest by a distance if you make the trip most days, and the only option here that costs nothing extra when the road is jammed.
Monthly pass — the cheaper way at your days.
A single is 4 lei; the 8 lei a day here is two of them. A single that carries on onto a Cluj-Napoca city line is 5.50 lei, so a return needing a second bus is 11 lei, not 8 — and the 115-lei monthly pass includes one Cluj-Napoca line, which is a large part of why it wins so early. Weekly pass 32 lei. CTP Cluj metropolitan tariffs, read 29 August 2026.
12.22 lei a day · Beyond Zona I and Zona II, then in on foot.
What a lot of Florești commuters actually do — and the honest comparison, because even with the parking free the fuel alone costs more than the bus pass.
The zero is the kerb, not the trip: it assumes you find free space outside the charged streets and walk in. On-street charging runs Monday to Saturday, 07:00 to 21:00 — Zona I is 8 lei an hour, Zona II 3 lei, paid by text message to 7480. Send the code for the wrong zone and the payment does not count. Primăria Cluj-Napoca, checked 23 August 2026.
from 36.22 lei a day · Piața Cipariu, the La Terenuri sports ground, or Parking Hașdeu — a walk or a stop or two out from the centre.
The middle option: a third of the Moților price for a few minutes' more walking.
24 lei is eight hours at the published flat 3 lei an hour. The city lists 18 lei for six hours, 36 for twelve and 72 for twenty-four, so a working day sits between the first two — which is why this figure reads as "from" rather than as a quote. Primăria Cluj-Napoca, checked 30 July 2026.
76.22 lei a day · Str. Moților 3–5, on the edge of the centre — barrier-controlled, so pay at the machine; SMS tickets and subscriptions are not valid there.
The nearest garage to the old centre with a published day rate, and the dearest way on this page by a wide margin.
64 lei is the city's published Monday-to-Friday rate for eight hours; six hours is 48 lei and twelve is 96. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays are far cheaper — the weekday premium is what a commuter pays. Primăria Cluj-Napoca, checked 30 July 2026.
Fuel worked out at 7 l/100 km and 9.54 lei a litre, over 46 commuting weeks a year. Change the days — or your own car — above.
“From” figures are a representative estimate, not a fixed fare — city-centre car parks vary and can run higher.
These are running costs only — fuel, parking and fares. They leave out the fixed cost of keeping a car (insurance, tax, servicing, wear), which you pay whether you drive in or not.
Petrol 95 at 9.54 lei a litre is the national average for Romania in the week of 24 August 2026, from the European Commission's Weekly Oil Bulletin: 1,816.08 euro per 1,000 litres including duties and taxes, converted at the Bulletin's own exchange rate for that week. Diesel that week was 10.18 lei a litre. It is a national average, not the price on the sign at your pump — tick the box above and type what you actually pay. The 7 litres per 100 km is an assumption about an ordinary car, not a measurement of yours; the figure on your own dashboard is better.
Most of Florești works in Cluj-Napoca. It is the most populous commune in Romania — 52,735 people at the 2021 census, up 131% on 2011 — and the DN1 between the two carries more traffic, and more crashes, than any other road in the country. This page answers one narrow part of that: over a year, what does each way of making the trip cost you in money?
The trip priced here is Florești centre to Piața Unirii and back — 18.3 km there and back, about 9.1 km each way, by road distance from OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, queried on 29 August 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Fourteen minutes when the road is empty, which at 08:00 it is not.
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| 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 |
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 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.
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.
One thing to check before you rely on it: CTP publishes that entitlement against its Cluj-Napoca lines, and it spells out "local and metropolitan" only for the school-pupil gratuity. Whether your free pass covers the metropolitan leg from Florești is worth asking at a CTP sales centre rather than assuming. Read from CTP's own free-and-reduced-pass page on 29 August 2026.
Park & Ride Traian Vuia is the cheapest parking in Cluj by a long way — 2 lei for six hours with the bus ride into town included — and it is the wrong side of the city for anyone coming from Florești. It sits in Someșeni, next to the airport, on the eastern edge; Florești is on the western one. Driving there means crossing the whole city first, which is the part of the journey this page is about. It is a real option for someone arriving from the east, and Cluj's own /cluj-napoca-cluj-ro/parking-cost page ranks it alongside everything else.
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Fares: CTP Cluj's own metropolitan tariff table, read 29 August 2026 — Cluj-N–Florești on lines M21, M22, M24, M26 and M27, single 4 lei, single plus one Cluj-Napoca line 5.50 lei, weekly 32 lei, monthly 115 lei.
Parking: Primăria Cluj-Napoca's published hourly tariff plans, checked 30 July 2026, and the on-street enforcement hours checked 23 August 2026. These are the same figures Cluj's /cluj-napoca-cluj-ro/parking-cost page uses.
Fuel: European Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin, week of 24 August 2026, consumer prices including duties and taxes.
Distance: road distance from OSRM over OpenStreetMap data, queried 29 August 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
The yearly figures assume 46 commuting weeks a year — 52 less a month or so of holidays, sick days and days worked from home. If you take less leave than that, every driving figure here is an underestimate.