Nj Turnpike Tolls Calculator
Planning a drive on the New Jersey Turnpike? Pick your entry and exit, vehicle class, E-ZPass or Tolls by Mail, and peak or off-peak travel, and this estimator returns a per-trip fare plus weekly, monthly and yearly commuter costs. It also prices Garden State Parkway plazas, the Atlantic City Expressway and the major bridge and tunnel crossings in one place, using the 2026 indexed rate schedule.
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Planning estimate using the 2026 indexed rates. Confirm the exact fare for your entry/exit pair with the NJTA’s official toll calculator before you drive. Not affiliated with the NJTA or E-ZPass.
Quick Answer
Exit 9 (New Brunswick) to Exit 14 (Newark Airport) is 4 zones. A car with NJ E-ZPass pays $3.06 off-peak or $4.08 at peak, and $5.30 by Tolls by Mail. Commuting that leg daily costs about $1,530.00 a year off-peak with E-ZPass. The calculator above is pre-filled with this trip: press Calculate to see it.
Key takeaways
- Off-peak E-ZPass on the Turnpike and Parkway runs about 25% below peak. Peak is 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekdays at entry time; weekends run at peak.
- Tolls by Mail is modeled at 1.30 times the peak E-ZPass fare on NJTA roads, and Port Authority Tolls by Mail runs $23.30 a crossing, so a transponder is the cheapest decision you make all year.
- Seniors and green vehicles get another 10% off the NJ E-ZPass off-peak fare. Tick the box only when it appears, because the discount exists only on off-peak E-ZPass trips.
- This is a planning estimate built on the 2026 indexed schedule. The NJTA indexes tolls every January 1, so always confirm the exact fare on the NJTA’s official toll calculator before you drive.
- Quick Answer
- How to use the NJ Turnpike toll estimator
- The 2026 rate schedule this calculator uses
- Worked examples, verified against the tool
- Peak hours, off-peak hours, and the senior discount
- What the commuter figures assume
- What competing calculators miss
- Frequently asked questions
- Add This Calculator to Your Website
- References
How to use the NJ Turnpike toll estimator
Pick the road system, fill in the trip, choose payment and time of day, and press Calculate. The results stay hidden until you calculate, and Reset restores the New Brunswick to Newark Airport example.
- Choose the road or crossing: Turnpike (exit to exit), Garden State Parkway (count your plazas), Atlantic City Expressway (flat fare), or a bridge/tunnel crossing (flat fare).
- Describe the trip: entry and exit on the Turnpike; barrier and ramp plaza counts on the Parkway; full or half length on the Expressway.
- Set payment, vehicle, time and trips: NJ E-ZPass or Tolls by Mail, vehicle class for the NJTA roads, peak or off-peak, and how many one-way trips to price.
- Read the results: the headline is the total for your trips, with per-trip fare, an approximate distance, and the commuter lines for weekly (5 round trips), monthly (20) and yearly (250) driving.
The 2026 rate schedule this calculator uses
No estimator should hide its constants. Every fare below comes from the 2026 indexed schedule that took effect on January 1, 2026, when the NJTA applied its annual 3% indexing to Turnpike and Parkway tolls. The NJTA re-indexes every January 1, which is why this page carries a planning-estimate warning instead of pretending rates are fixed forever.
| Facility | 2026 rate in this tool | How it is applied |
|---|---|---|
| NJ Turnpike, car | $1.02 per exit zone | Zones traveled times the per-zone rate. Off-peak E-ZPass takes about 25% off; senior/green takes another 10% off the off-peak E-ZPass fare; Tolls by Mail is 1.30 times the peak E-ZPass fare. |
| NJ Turnpike, SUV/pickup | $1.15 per zone | |
| NJ Turnpike, 3/4/5/6+ axles | $2.04 / $2.70 / $4.08 / $5.10 per zone | |
| Garden State Parkway | $2.30 per barrier plaza, $0.76 per tolled ramp | Multiplied by the vehicle-class factor (1.0 car, 1.13 SUV, 2.0/2.65/4.0/5.0 for 3 to 6+ axles); same off-peak, senior and Tolls-by-Mail treatment as the Turnpike. |
| Atlantic City Expressway | $6.49 E-ZPass / $13.98 by mail, full length | Cashless since January 4, 2026. Mail bills at double the E-ZPass rate plus a $1 invoice fee; half length is half the E-ZPass fare and the mail equivalent. |
| Port Authority crossings | $16.79 peak / $14.79 off-peak E-ZPass, $23.30 by mail | Car rates: George Washington Bridge, Lincoln and Holland tunnels, Bayonne, Goethals and Outerbridge. Peak is 6 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays; commercial rates differ. |
| Delaware Memorial Bridge | $4.75 E-ZPass (DE/NJ accounts), $6.00 cash | DRBA, 2026. Tolled southbound (NJ to DE) only. |
| Delaware River (DRJTBC) bridges | $2.00 E-ZPass, $5.00 Toll by Plate | Car rates, 2026. |
Two simplifications are deliberate and disclosed. The Turnpike model is linear, zones times a per-zone rate, with each zone counted as about 6 miles for the distance readout, so treat long trips as rough planning figures. Tolls by Mail on NJTA roads is modeled at a flat 1.30 multiplier; on the Port Authority and the Expressway the published mail rates are used directly.
Worked examples, verified against the tool
Every number below is a real run of the calculator above, so you can reproduce each row by entering the same inputs.
| Trip | Per trip | Yearly commuter |
|---|---|---|
| Turnpike, Exit 9 → 14, car, E-ZPass, off-peak | $3.06 | $1,530.00 |
| Same trip, peak E-ZPass | $4.08 | $2,040.00 |
| Same trip, Tolls by Mail | $5.30 | $2,652.00 |
| Same trip, off-peak E-ZPass, senior/green discount | $2.75 | $1,377.00 |
| Parkway, 2 barriers + 2 ramps, SUV, Tolls by Mail | $8.99 | $4,495.14 |
| GWB / Lincoln / Holland, E-ZPass, off-peak | $14.79 | $7,395.00 |
| Atlantic City Expressway, full length, E-ZPass / by mail | $6.49 / $13.98 | $3,245.00 / $6,990.00 |
Check the senior row by hand: $4.08 × 0.75 = $3.06 off-peak, × 0.90 = $2.754, which rounds to the displayed $2.75. The Parkway row: (2 × $2.30 + 2 × $0.76) = $6.12, × 1.13 for the SUV = $6.9156, × 1.30 for Tolls by Mail = $8.99.
Peak hours, off-peak hours, and the senior discount
On the Turnpike and the Parkway, NJ E-ZPass peak hours are 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, measured at entry time, and weekends run at peak rates. Every other time is off-peak, and off-peak E-ZPass fares sit about 25% below peak, per the NJTA. On Port Authority crossings the windows differ: 6 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays, which is why the tool relabels the time dropdown when you switch to a crossing.
The senior and green-vehicle discount takes 10% off the NJ E-ZPass off-peak fare, and the checkbox only appears when it can actually apply: an NJTA road, NJ E-ZPass, off-peak. The discount does not exist on peak fares, on Tolls by Mail, or on Port Authority crossings, so the tool hides the box everywhere else. Register the discount with your E-ZPass account; eligibility is the authority’s call.
What the commuter figures assume
The weekly, monthly and yearly lines assume round trips only: 5 per week, 20 per month, 250 workdays a year. Port Authority crossings are tolled one way into New York, so the crossing commuter figure counts tolled legs, which matches a daily one-way crossing habit. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority or E-ZPass.
What competing calculators miss
Most NJ toll tools do one road and stop:
- The NJTA’s own toll calculator: exact and authoritative for the Turnpike and Parkway, which is why this page tells you to confirm fares there. It does not price the Parkway by plaza count, does not roll up commuter totals, and does not cover the Expressway or the crossings.
- TollGuru’s NJ calculator: route-based with fuel and truck extras, but its NJ FAQ still cites 2025-era figures such as a $13.85 full-route E-ZPass fare, and there is no senior or green-vehicle discount toggle.
- SageCalculator’s NJ TPK tool: a generic entry/exit estimator whose payment options still lean on cash, which is increasingly wrong as cashless zones expand and the Expressway went cashless in January 2026.
- CalculatorDoc’s “turnpike toll calculator”: flat-out wrong road. Its examples use Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester exits, which is the New York Thruway, not the New Jersey Turnpike.
- The gap this page fills: four toll systems in one tool, the NJTA’s own off-peak and senior/green discounts modeled instead of ignored, per-trip fares next to commuter totals so a daily driver sees the yearly number, and every constant published on the page so you can check it against the official schedules.
Planning the fuel side of the same trip? The gas cost per month calculator covers that, and the commute expense calculator rolls tolls, fuel and parking into one commuting budget. Comparing another state’s toll road? Try the Kansas toll calculator.
Frequently asked questions
For a car with NJ E-ZPass, the estimator prices Exit 9 (New Brunswick) to Exit 14 (Newark Airport) at $4.08 at peak or $3.06 off-peak, covering 4 zones. By Tolls by Mail the same trip is $5.30. Confirm the exact fare on the NJTA’s official toll calculator before you drive.
Yes, two ways. Tolls by Mail is modeled at 1.30 times the peak E-ZPass fare on NJTA roads, and traveling off-peak with NJ E-ZPass takes about another 25% off the peak fare. On the $3.06 example trip, the mail bill is $5.30, a $2.24 difference every trip.
For NJ E-ZPass: 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, measured at entry time. Weekends run at peak rates, and all other times are off-peak. Port Authority crossings use different windows: 6 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 8 p.m. weekdays.
Yes: 10% off the NJ E-ZPass off-peak fare for qualifying seniors and green vehicles, per the NJTA. The calculator applies it when you tick the senior/green box, which only appears on an off-peak E-ZPass trip on a Turnpike or Parkway route. Enrollment and eligibility are handled by the tolling authority, not this page.
It is a planning estimate built on flat per-exit rates from the 2026 indexed schedule. Real tolls follow the NJTA’s official per-trip schedules, which vary by exact entry/exit pair, time of day and vehicle class. Use it for budgeting; use the official calculator for the exact number.
Because crossings are priced here at published car rates: $16.79 peak / $14.79 off-peak E-ZPass and $23.30 by mail for Port Authority crossings, $4.75 E-ZPass for the Delaware Memorial Bridge, and $2.00 E-ZPass for DRJTBC bridges. Commercial and multi-axle rates differ by authority, so the tool stays inside what it can price honestly.
No. The Turnpike keeps its classic sequential exit numbers 1 through 18, which is what the calculator’s dropdown lists. No mileage-based renumbering has taken effect.
Do not stop or back up. The NJTA photographs the plate and mails a Tolls by Mail invoice to the registered owner. Pay it online through the NJTA before the due date to avoid violation fees; an E-ZPass account prevents this entirely.
Round trips only: the weekly figure assumes 5 round trips, monthly assumes 20, and yearly assumes 250 workdays. Port Authority crossings are tolled one way into New York, so the crossing commuter figure counts tolled legs. If you drive one way or fewer days, scale the figures down.
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References
- New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Toll Schedules - New Jersey Turnpike (2026 schedules, including the E-ZPass off-peak, green and senior discount schedules). Accessed October 23, 2026.
- New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Financial Summary through August 2026 (3% annual toll rate indexing effective January 1, 2026). Accessed October 23, 2026.
- PrePass. Stay ahead of toll costs: 2026 midyear tolling update (NJTA 3% indexing, Port Authority and DRJTBC changes). Accessed October 23, 2026.
- NY Tolls Info. How to Pay Tolls in New Jersey (2026) (Atlantic City Expressway 2026 node rates and Toll-by-Plate doubling plus $1 invoice fee). Accessed October 23, 2026.
- George Washington Bridge Toll Guide. GWB Peak vs Off-Peak Toll Rates and Schedule (2026) ($16.79 peak / $14.79 off-peak E-ZPass, $23.30 Toll-by-Mail, tariff effective January 4, 2026). Accessed October 23, 2026.
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Tolls at Port Authority bridges and tunnels (official rate tables). Accessed October 23, 2026.