Road Trip Cost Calculator
Estimate the full cost of a driving holiday — fuel, tolls, parking, accommodation, food and extras — split fairly across everyone in the car.
Your total road trip cost
Enter your distance, vehicle and expected costs — we'll add it all up and split it per traveller.
How it works
The Road Trip Cost Calculator turns a handful of figures — the distance you're driving, your car's fuel economy, current pump price and the extras you already know you'll pay for — into a single, honest total for the whole trip, and a fair per-person share.
The maths in plain English. Fuel cost = (distance ÷ economy) × price per unit, doubled if you tick "include return journey". Everything else — tolls, parking, accommodation, food and other costs — is added on top. The per-person figure is simply the total divided by the number of travellers.
The full editorial guide for this calculator is being prepared and will be published here shortly, along with a downloadable PDF version.