Slovenia by campervan: sleeping and camping
Where you may legally sleep in a campervan in Slovenia: parking, camping, campsites, stopovers and possible fines. What to know before you go.
Published 18 September 2026Last checked 18 September 2026
Currency
Euro
EUR. In the eurozone since 2007. Cards almost everywhere
Language
Slovene
Italian and Hungarian are co-official in border towns
Driving
Right
Motorway 130 km/h, 80 km/h over 3,500 kg
Power
230V, type F
Same two-pin plug as most of Europe
Tap water
Safe to drink
Ask for vodo iz pipe
Emergency
112
Any language. Police 113, traffic info 1970
Sleeping
Sleeping
The test here is whether anything is outside the vehicle. Slovenian police treat camping as putting up tents, awnings or similar structures to sleep in, so resting or sleeping inside a vehicle that is properly parked, with no chairs, table, awning or barbecue out, is not camping. Deploy any of that and it is. This is narrower than it sounds: it protects a night's sleep on a legal parking space, not a pitch on a meadow with a view.
Still parked
- Sleeping, cooking and eating inside
- Roof vent and windows open, blinds down
- On a marked, legal parking space
- Nothing on the ground except the wheels
Now camping
- A tent, an awning or a canopy out
- Chairs, a table or a barbecue outside
- Stabiliser legs down
- Waste water emptied on the ground
- Parked on grass, gravel bank or forest track rather than a road or car park
Where to sleep, cheapest first
| Option | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Street or car park | free to paid | Where the municipality allows it. Marked space, nothing deployed, and check the signs and any time limit. This is the option local ordinances restrict. |
| Postajališče za avtodome | varies | A motorhome stopover, recognised as its own type of accommodation in the 2025 Hospitality Act. Water, waste disposal, often electricity. Around 120 are listed across the country. |
| Tourist farm | varies | Farms and vineyards that take a few vans, often with a meal and their own wine attached. |
| Campsite | over €60 average | ACSI's 2026 Slovenian average for two adults and two children with electricity and taxes. Off season and inland is far less. Around 126 campsites in the country. |
| Motorway services | free | Legal, and the worst option for security or for sleep. |
Who decides
- The state sets the public order framework. Since 28 January 2026 that is the new public order act, which covers a disturbing overnight stay, not camping as such.
- Municipalities write the rules for sleeping in vehicles, expressly under that act. Ljubljana's 2019 ordinance is reported to allow habitation vehicles only at marked car parks, with the P and R sites at Dolgi most and Stanežiče named. Bled is reported to ban putting caravans, habitation vehicles or tents on public surfaces. Bovec is reported to cap parking such a vehicle at 12 hours outside a campsite or the town's stopover.
Water, waste and the off-road rule
- Fill and empty at a postajališče za avtodome or a campsite. Many will sell you the service point without the night.
- Never empty grey water on the ground. It is the behaviour that gets a car park closed to campervans, and near water it becomes a nature protection matter.
What the fines run to
The pressure points are Gorenjska, the Soča valley and the coast in summer, which is exactly where the local rules are tightest and where the enforcement happens. These amounts are what the named acts state. Municipal ordinances carry their own, they differ from town to town, and the state changed this framework in January 2026, so treat the sign in front of you as the current rule.