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Road trip planner: Germany
13 checked road trips, day by day, with kilometres and where to sleep. Open one in the free planner to change the days, move the stops or start from home.
Our road trips
Black Forest High Road: Baden-Baden to Freiburg (3 Days)
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Deutsche Alpenstraße: Germany's Alpine Road (5 Days)
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Eifel Loop from Cologne: Maars, Monschau and the Nürburgring in 3 Days
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Harz Mountains Road Trip from Hannover: Goslar, the Brocken and Quedlinburg in 3 Days
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Lake Constance Road Trip from Friedrichshafen: Three Countries, the Rhine Falls and Lindau in 3 Days
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Luxembourg Road Trip: the Moselle, the Mullerthal and the Luxembourg Ardennes in 3 Days
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Mosel Valley Road Trip: Koblenz to Trier (3 Days)
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Munich to Venice Road Trip Through the Alps (4 Days)
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Rostock to the Austrian Alps: Kammersberg Road Trip (7 Days)
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Rüdesheim to Koblenz: 65 km Rhine Castle Drive, 2 Days
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Rügen and Usedom Road Trip from Rostock: Chalk Cliffs, Piers and Baltic Islands in 4 Days
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Saxon Switzerland Road Trip from Dresden: the Bastei, Königstein and the Pravčická Gate in 3 Days
Open in the planner →The Romantic Road: Würzburg to Neuschwanstein (4 Days)
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Driving rules: Germany
The general rules for cars, from the tables we keep with their official sources. Road signs always take precedence.
- Speed limits
- Built-up areas: 50 km/h
- Outside built-up areas: 100 km/h
- Motorways: 130 km/h recommended
- Motorways and roads with separated carriageways or at least 2 marked lanes in each direction have no general limit for cars; 130 km/h is recommended. According to ADAC, from 0.3 ‰ driving can be a criminal offence if there are signs of impairment or after an accident; drivers of scheduled buses and trolleybuses must not drink alcohol on duty.
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- Alcohol limit
- 0.5 g/l · Novice drivers: No alcohol allowed
- Novice drivers: Drivers in the probation period (normally 2 years) and all drivers under 21.
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- Winter tyres
- Weather conditions
- There is no fixed date: whenever there is black ice, snow, slush, ice or frost on the road, all wheels must have winter or all-season tyres with the Alpine symbol (3PMSF); M+S-only tyres no longer count since 1 October 2024.
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- Motorway vignette
- No vignette for cars.
- Tolls for motorways, bridges and tunnels on your own trip: the calculator →
- Fuel price
- €2.067 petrol 95 · €2.253 diesel, per litre
- Price of November 9, 2026
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These are the general limits: road signs always take precedence, and laws change. Before you travel, check the source linked in the row for your country.