Roads, aires and rules for caravans and motorhomes across Europe

Caravans and motorhomes across Europe

Campeur splits the journey into daily legs from your maximum driving time, suggests somewhere to stay near the end of each leg, and works out the travel time using the speed limit that applies to what you are towing. The map holds 65 423 aires and campsites across Europe.

One speed per country, and it leans low

Campeur stores a single towing speed for each of 38 countries. One number cannot express that a motorway allows more than an ordinary road, so it is set to the open-road limit and never the motorway one. It may sit below the law; it must never sit above it. Motorway legs therefore come out a little pessimistic, which is the right direction to be wrong in.

Countries checked against a named authority

Read on 6 August 2026:

• Sweden 80 km/h — Transportstyrelsen. Sweden in detail.
• Germany 80 — StVO § 18. Germany in detail.
• Denmark 80 — færdselsloven § 43(3). One number for every road type, motorway included. Denmark in detail.
• Norway 80 — the traffic rules § 13(4). A ceiling: where a road is posted higher than 80, the combination still sits at 80. Norway in detail.
• Finland 80 — the Road Traffic Act 729/2018, annex 5.2. A table in the statute: 80 for a car with a trailer, and the only 100 is for trailers up to 750 kg. Finland in detail.
• Netherlands 80 — RVV 1990, articles 21 and 22. The often-quoted 90 is the motorway figure; on any other road outside a built-up area the lower 80 binds. Netherlands in detail.
• France 80 — Code de la route, R413-2 and R413-8. Above 3.5 tonnes the combination does 90 on the motorway; below it the ordinary car limits apply. Either way ordinary roads are 80. France in detail.
• Spain 80 — Reglamento General de Circulación, article 48. A car with a trailer does 90 on the motorway and 80 on every other road, whatever the trailer weighs. Spain in detail.
• Austria 70 — oesterreich.gv.at. A caravan over 750 kg counts as a heavy trailer, which is nearly always. Austria in detail.
• Poland 70 — Prawo o ruchu drogowym, article 20. A car with a trailer does 80 on a motorway, expressway or dual carriageway and 70 on every other road, whatever the trailer weighs — and the caravan may not outweigh the car. Poland in detail.
• United Kingdom 80 — Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Schedule 6. A car with a caravan does 50 mph on an ordinary road and 60 on a dual carriageway or motorway, whatever the caravan weighs. The statutes are Great Britain’s; Northern Ireland legislates separately. Great Britain in detail.

Read on 12 August 2026, when the countries left over were worked through one at a time. Five stored figures turned out to be wrong and were corrected: Czechia, Slovakia and Latvia up to 90, Italy and Portugal down to 70.

• Czechia 90 — Zákon č. 361/2000 Sb., § 18(3), consolidated text in force for 2026. The 90 outside built-up areas is tested against the towing vehicle’s permitted weight, not the combination’s, so a car under 3.5 tonnes keeps it with a caravan behind. Czech law sets no separate speed for a combination.
• Slovakia 90 — Zákon č. 8/2009 Z. z., § 16. Paragraph 3 gives a car up to 3.5 tonnes towing a trailer over 750 kg 90 km/h, and paragraph 6 makes that a ceiling even where a sign allows more, motorway included.
• Switzerland 80 — Verkehrsregelnverordnung (SR 741.11), art. 5(1)(a), version of 1 July 2026. A combination gets 80. The 100 in art. 5(2)(c) is for motorways and semi-motorways only, and art. 5(3) makes the figures ceilings.
• Italy 70 — Codice della strada, art. 142(3)(e), in force since 14 December 2024. A car with a caravan is an autotreno: 70 outside built-up areas and 80 on the motorway, with no exemption for light trailers.
• Croatia 90 — Zakon o sigurnosti prometa na cestama, članak 54(1), original text NN 67/08 with every amending act checked. The 80 in članak 55 is for unbraked trailers; a caravan over 750 kg is braked and takes the general 90.
• Estonia 90 — Liiklusseadus § 15(1), consolidated text in force 1 August 2026. Estonia lists no figure for a car with a trailer, so the general 90 outside built-up areas applies.
• Latvia 90 — Ceļu satiksmes noteikumi, Cabinet Regulation No. 279 of 2015, point 101, text in force from 1 July 2026: 90 for all vehicles outside built-up areas, with no exception for trailers. Point 103.5 puts gravel and macadam roads at 80, and those are common away from the main routes.
• Lithuania 90 — Kelių eismo taisyklės, point 131.4, consolidated version from 1 January 2026. A car with a trailer does 90 on asphalt or concrete, motorway included, and 70 on other roads, meaning the gravel ones.
• Portugal 70 — Código da Estrada, art. 27, as republished by Lei n.º 72/2013. The table gives a car with a trailer 70 on ordinary roads, 80 on roads reserved for motor vehicles and 100 on the motorway. Article 28 lets a sign set a higher figure as well as a lower one, so 70 is the default rather than a ceiling.
• Ireland 80 — S.I. No. 255 of 2022, which replaced regulation 4 of S.I. No. 546 of 2008: 80 on every public road for any combination that is not a heavy goods vehicle, motorway included.
• Romania 80 — O.U.G. 195/2002, art. 50(2): a vehicle towing a trailer does 10 km/h less than its own licence category. Category B is 90 on an ordinary road, so a car with a caravan does 80 there, 90 on a European route and 120 on the motorway.
• Bulgaria 80 — Закон за движението по пътищата, чл. 21(1), the table as replaced with effect from 5 September 2025. The combination has a row of its own, found through the licence category: category BE is 80 outside built-up areas and 100 on the motorway.
• Greece 80 — ν. 5209/2025, the new highway code (ΦΕΚ Α′ 100 of 13 June 2025), art. 24(2), in force since 13 September 2025. A car with a trailer does 80 on ordinary roads whether or not the trailer is a light one.

Where we are not certain, and say so

Belgium is stored as 70. Flanders lowered the general limit outside built-up areas from 90 to 70 in 2017 and Wallonia kept 90, so 70 cannot sit above the law in either region. But every official page we had for it now answers 404, and we will not cite a link we cannot open.

Luxembourg is stored as 90, the general limit outside built-up areas. We found no rule specific to trailers. If one exists, the number should come down.

Slovenia is stored as 80. The rules act ZPrCP puts ordinary roads at 90 in article 46 and lifts certain vehicle classes down to 80 in article 47, but the Slovene wording leaves it open whether a car under 3.5 tonnes with a caravan belongs to that class, and nothing in the act settles it. We store the lower of the two readings, because 80 is legal under both. Do not read it as a figure quoted from the statute.

Hungary is stored as 80, and that figure is inherited rather than sourced. The Hungarian rules are a 1975 ministerial decree, KRESZ, whose speed paragraph puts a car with a trailer in points 26 § (1)(b) and (c) — and the text in force of those two points is not published anywhere we can read. The official gazette archive begins in 1998 and the points are older; the consolidated site njt.hu answers nothing at all to a client that is not a browser; what is left is commercial. So the 80 stands unproven, and the suspicion that it is a motorway number stands with it.

Hungary is now the only figure on the map we cannot trace to a text. Seven countries are stored above 80 km/h — Luxembourg, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — and of those only Luxembourg’s is unsourced. Those, with Hungary and Slovenia, are the entries where being wrong would be wrong in the dangerous direction, so read the signs.

Every other country on the map falls back to 80 km/h, the most common towed maximum in Europe.

The figures above come from official texts and are dated, but Campeur is not a legal source and rules change. Check the signs and the regulation in force before you drive. Found a mistake, or do you have the link to the text in force? Send it to kontakt@campeur.eu and the page will be corrected.