The 9th largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026
The used-car market in Poland
As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Poland is EUR 14,750, at a median odometer reading of 120,000 km, measured across 227,596 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 14,75016th dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 120,000 km
- Live adverts
- 227,5969th largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 9
Prices are rounded to the nearest EUR 250 and mileage to 1,000 km, and every figure is a median over live adverts — not over sales.
What is on the market
Every powertrain with enough adverts in Poland to publish, largest first. Groups too small to publish are not shown; how the thresholds work. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Poland, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.
| Powertrain | Adverts | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petrol | 115,782 | 50.9% | EUR 15,000 |
| Diesel | 82,775 | 36.4% | EUR 11,000 |
| Petrol full hybrid (non plug-in) | 12,618 | 5.5% | EUR 26,750 |
| Petrol plug-in hybrid | 8,309 | 3.7% | EUR 36,250 |
| LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) | 5,139 | 2.3% | EUR 5,250 |
| Electric (BEV) | 2,816 | 1.2% | EUR 36,750 |
| CNG / biomethane (incl. petrol/CNG bi-fuel) | 80–90 | 0.0% | EUR 16,250 |
| Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 40–50 | 0.0% | EUR 76,250 |
| Hydrogen | 20–30 | 0.0% | EUR 23,250 |
Bringing a car into Poland
What a country charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is usually the largest term in a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date it was last checked. Where we have not verified one, this page says so instead of printing a number.
Registration tax
EUR 465 VerifiedPoland charges excise duty on a car's first registration in the country, as a percentage of the price paid. The percentage turns on engine capacity: 18.60% above 2,000 cm3 and 3.10% otherwise, so the same car either side of that line differs by EUR 2,325 on a EUR 15,000 price. Hybrids are charged less — 9.30% between 2,000 and 3,500 cm3, and 1.55% at or below 2,000 cm3 — and battery-electric and hydrogen cars are exempt outright. A hybrid at or below 2,000 cm3 is additionally exempt until 31 December 2029, but only on meeting statutory conditions an advert cannot evidence, so those are shown as a range from the exemption to the table rate rather than as one figure. The rates are those in the consolidated Excise Duty Act, Dz.U. 2026 poz. 412. There is no CO2 component: the emissions-based tax proposed under the recovery plan was never enacted, so nothing here depends on an emissions figure. The rates are ad valorem, so this is a charge on the price rather than a fixed sum. Registration and plate fees are excluded, as everywhere here. Note on the source: the ministry's page states the car percentages in its consolidated rate table, and its separate note for 1 January 2026 restates only the products charged at a fixed amount per unit — it does not restate the percentages for cars.
This country charges on the car rather than a flat sum, so the figure above is for one benchmark car — a 2019 diesel of 1968 cm3 and 110 kW bought for EUR 15,000 — and the same car is priced on every market page here so the figures compare. A different car pays a different amount.
samochody osobowe o pojemności silnika > 2000 cm3 podstawa opodatkowania 18,60%
samochody osobowe pozostałe podstawa opodatkowania 3,10%
samochody osobowe hybrydowe o pojemności silnika≤2000 cm 3 podstawa opodatkowania 1,55%
stanowiący pojazd elektryczny i pojazd napędzany wodorem
o pojemności silnika spalinowego równej 2000 cm 3 lub niższej, w okresie do 31 grudnia 2029 r.
VAT
23% VerifiedStandard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.
Read from this record in the source database, shown exactly as it was returned:
PL STANDARD DEFAULT 23.0 2026-07-01+02:00
Tolls and road charges
Vignette and tolls VerifiedBoth apply: a network-wide charge and separately tolled routes or concessions. Cars pay nothing on the state-managed network, and are charged per section on the three concessions: A1 Gdańsk–Toruń, A2 Świecko–Konin and A4 Katowice–Kraków.
a motor vehicle and a combination of vehicles with a maximum permissible weight over 3.5 tons
The limits below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, old enough that no age-based exemption changes the answer. A newer car can be answered differently, and the records above say on what.
- The registration figure is the tax alone. Plate and administration fees are excluded rather than estimated.
- Transport, plate and administration fees, VAT treatment and customs duty are not included anywhere in this service. Nothing on this page is a landed cost.
Where these numbers come from
Poland is one of 23 national markets this service measures daily from public marketplace listings. The published figures are aggregates: a median needs at least 20 adverts behind it, a quartile at least 50, and counts below 500 are published as a band rather than exactly. No advert, seller or individual price is ever published. The full method is here.