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€145–€290
Recently checked price · per vehicle · checked Oct 22, 2026 · assumes 15 passengers
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Split Airport to Makarska
Zračna luka Sveti Jeronim (SPU)
Makarska
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Makarska is a hundred kilometres from the terminal and the drive takes an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half. The seventy kilometres usually quoted is from Split city, which is twenty-five kilometres the wrong side of the airport. A private transfer starts at 145 EUR for the vehicle.
- 75–90 min
- By road, estimated
- 100 km
- Road distance
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Private Transfer from Split Airport to Makarska
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- Up to 15 in one vehicle
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Which transfer should you choose?
This is the longest route on the site and the two engines agree closely on it: 98.02 and 100.98 kilometres, three apart over a hundred, taking the same roads throughout - the D8 east, the D1 to the motorway, forty-seven kilometres of tolled A1 to the Zagvozd exit, then the D76 over the Biokovo pass and down to the coast. One supplier sells this journey by name. A second exists and is not used: it ends its title with "any hotel or apartment", which is not a place, so the destination is never named where the journey is said to end.
You read seventy kilometres somewhere
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That is from Split city. From the airport it is a hundred, and the extra twenty-five are in the wrong direction before you start.
There are eight of you
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A hundred and seventy euros for the vehicle is twenty-one each for an hour and a half.
You land in the evening
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An hour and a half of motorway and a mountain pass in the dark is not the drive to improvise after a flight.
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A hundred and forty-five euros covers a vehicle for up to three, 170 for up to eight and 290 for up to fifteen, as listed at Viator on 11 September 2026. The toll on the A1 is the driver's, not an extra. One operator prices this route by name, so nothing here corroborates the figure; on shorter routes this site can usually show two suppliers landing on the same number.
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The number that is wrong by thirty kilometres
Almost every figure you will read for this journey is seventy kilometres, and it is a real number measured from the wrong place. Split city to Makarska along the coast is about that. The airport is twenty-five kilometres west of Split, so a transfer starts further away rather than nearer, and both of our routing engines put the drive at ninety-eight to a hundred and one.
Motorway and a mountain pass, not the coast road
Both engines take the same way and it is not the scenic one: the D8 east, the D1 up to the motorway, forty-seven kilometres of tolled A1 inland to the Zagvozd exit, then the D76 over the Biokovo pass and down to the sea. The coastal Magistrala is slower and longer from this direction. The descent is where the two engines disagree most about time, which is what a mountain road does to a speed model.
A riviera is not a town
Several transfer products sell "Makarska Riviera", which is a fifty-kilometre stretch of coast holding Brela, Baška Voda, Tučepi and Podgora as well as Makarska itself. One price across that is one price across journeys that differ by half an hour, so we do not use those. The figure here comes from the single supplier that names the town, and nothing corroborates it.
Prefer to have it booked before you land?
A private transfer to Makarska is arranged in advance and the driver meets you in arrivals. Prices move, so the link opens the current ones at Viator.
Frequently asked questions
How far is Makarska from Split Airport?
100 km. Our two engines returned 98.02 and 100.98 km on the same roads.
How much is a transfer?
From 145 EUR for the vehicle for up to three, 170 up to eight, 290 up to fifteen. Checked at Viator rather than quoted live.
Why is it further than the seventy kilometres I have seen?
Seventy is from Split city. The airport is twenty-five kilometres west of Split, so the journey starts further from Makarska, not nearer.
Why do other sites say seventy kilometres?
Because they measure from Split city. The airport is twenty-five kilometres further west.
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Where these facts come from
Every figure on this page is checked against a named source and dated. We do not publish a number we cannot point at.
- Facts last checked
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- Sep 11, 2026
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