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Adriatic coast road, Rijeka to Dubrovnik

The Croatian coast road from Rijeka south past Senj and the Velebit mountains, through Zadar, Šibenik, Trogir and Split, along the Makarska Riviera and over the Pelješac bridge to Ston and Dubrovnik.

Distance
366 miles (590 km)
Type
Point to point
Where
Dalmatia

At 150 to 300 miles a day, this is 2 or 3 days of riding. Set your own daily distance and add rest days.

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

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From the map

Longest gap between fuel
31 miles
Fuel stations near the line
114
Curvature
172 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
182
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 81 to mile 112. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 83 to mile 103, at 392 degrees of turning a mile.
  • 22 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

  • The coast road is busy and slow in July and August, with coaches and caravans.
  • The bora wind can be very strong on the stretch below the Velebit, around Senj and Karlobag. The road sometimes closes to motorcycles when it blows.
  • Croatia uses the euro and is in the EU and Schengen. Bosnia and Herzegovina, which the old road crossed at Neum, is not.

On the way

  1. Rijeka
  2. Senj
  3. Karlobag
  4. Starigrad Paklenica
  5. Zadar
  6. Šibenik
  7. Trogir
  8. Split
  9. Omiš
  10. Makarska
  11. Pelješac bridge
  12. Ston
  13. Dubrovnik

Split it into days

Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.

This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.

Ready to ride it?

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Plan it with dates in the tour planner

1Getting there

Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.

Compare every crossing

2Places to stay

Split the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.

Back to the days

3Cover

Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.

What to check before you buy cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Croatia

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right
  • Drivers must carry a fluorescent vest and wear it at a breakdown: check what applies to motorcycles
  • Winter tyres are required from 15 November to 15 April: check what applies to motorcycles
  • Motorcycles must ride with dipped headlights on all year
  • The drink-drive limit is lower than in England, and zero for riders under 24

On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.