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Caravan rules in Denmark

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Every pin and road here comes from OpenStreetMap — a free, open map that anyone can edit. If an aire, campsite or dump station is missing, wrong or has closed, you can fix it, and the change flows back here at the next data update. Here's how.

! Quickest: leave a Note

  1. Open openstreetmap.org and find the spot.
  2. Click the speech-bubble icon (right toolbar) to add a Note — no account needed.
  3. Describe what's wrong or missing (e.g. "dump station here, 3 €") and post it. A local mapper picks it up.

✎ Edit it yourself

  1. Create a free account on openstreetmap.org.
  2. Find the place, click Edit — the beginner-friendly iD editor opens in the browser.
  3. Drop a point and pick a preset: Caravan/RV Site, Campsite or Sanitary Dump Station.
  4. Fill in what you know — name, fee, capacity, opening hours, whether there's a dump station.
  5. Save with a short comment (e.g. "added aire, visited July 2026").

Useful for campers

  • Aire / stopover — tourism=caravan_site
  • Campsite — tourism=camp_site
  • Dump station — amenity=sanitary_dump_station
  • Fee — fee=yes/no, charge=…
  • Access / barriers — a closed barrier=gate or access=private tells others whether they can drive in.

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors. State-subsidised road network (Sweden): © Trafikverket (NVDB), NetInfo WMS. Country polygons: Natural Earth. Routing via FOSSGIS (OSRM/Valhalla). Guidance only, not legal advice.

Towing a caravan in Denmark

Denmark is one of the few countries where the limit for a car and caravan is one number rather than two. The Road Traffic Act sets 80 km/h irrespective of the type of road, and that word is in the statute on purpose.

80 km/h, motorway included

  • A car with a permitted mass of at most 3,500 kg with a trailer, semi-trailer or registration-liable towed appliance attached, caravans included: 80 km/h. The statute says “irrespective of § 42”, so it holds on ordinary roads, expressways and motorways alike.
  • The same limit applies to a motorcycle with a trailer.
  • With nothing attached the ordinary limits apply: 50 km/h in built-up areas, 80 km/h outside them, 80 km/h on expressways and 130 km/h on motorways.
  • With a towed appliance that is not registration-liable: 30 km/h.

Source: LBK no. 118 of 12 January 2026, the consolidated Road Traffic Act, § 42 and § 43(3)–(5). In force and unamended, read 11 August 2026. Færdselsstyrelsen states it in plain words too: without a Tempo 100 approval the limit is 80 km/h on motorways and 80 km/h on other roads.

Tempo 100 — and here a foreign plate counts

With a Tempo 100 approval the combination may drive 100 km/h on motorways. On roads other than motorways it stays 80. The conditions:

  • The trailer is approved and registered for Tempo 100 and carries a Tempo 100 mark visible from directly behind. The requirement to be registered in the Danish vehicle register (DMR) does not apply to trailers registered abroad.
  • A corresponding mark from the country where the trailer is registered counts as well — if that country’s authority has documented to Færdselsstyrelsen that the mark shows an approval under conditions matching the Danish technical requirements, and that the vehicle is subject to periodic inspection. Færdselsstyrelsen publishes the marks it accepts. Danish and Norwegian approvals are recognised in each other’s country — see Norway in detail.
  • The towing car: permitted mass at most 3,500 kg, ABS, and a registered kerb weight at least as high as the trailer’s Tempo 100 certificate requires.
  • The trailer: rigid drawbar, total permitted axle load at most 3,500 kg, suitable for at least 100 km/h, and tyres less than six years old rated for at least 120 km/h.
  • The Tempo 100 approval certificate must be carried, and may be shown electronically. For trailers registered abroad, the equivalent national documentation applies.

If even one condition fails, the drive counts as ordinary trailer driving under § 43(3) — that is, 80 km/h. It is worth noticing that the Danish scheme takes an explicit position on foreign marks. Not every country’s does: Germany’s Tempo 100 runs entirely through German vehicle papers and a plate issued by a German authority, and names no foreign equivalent.

Source: BEK no. 458 of 12 May 2016 on the conditions for Tempo 100 driving with a caravan and other registration-liable trailers, §§ 2–6. In force and unamended as of 11 August 2026 according to retsinformation.dk. See also Færdselsstyrelsen on Tempo 100, read the same day.

Motorhomes

A motorhome over 3,500 kg and up to 7,500 kg can be approved for Tempo 100 and may then drive 100 km/h on motorways and 80 km/h on other roads. Without the approval it is 80 and 80. If the motorhome is towing a registration-liable trailer, Færdselsstyrelsen states 80 km/h on motorways and 70 km/h on other roads — and Tempo 100 does not apply while anything is attached. That 70 is not in § 43 of the Road Traffic Act, which sets 80 irrespective of road type for vehicles over 3,500 kg with a trailer. We report the authority’s figure because it is the lower of the two, and the lower figure is the safe one to follow.

Source: Færdselsstyrelsen, Tempo 100, read 11 August 2026, and BEK no. 201 of 12 March 2018 on the conditions for Tempo 100 driving with a motorhome.

Campeur plans Denmark at 80

The planner uses 80 km/h across Denmark. Here the one-number-per-country cap fits the law exactly: § 43(3) draws no distinction between road types, so there is no lower open-road figure to allow for. We do not plan with Tempo 100, because it depends on an approval you either hold or do not.

Correction, 11 August 2026: Campeur previously planned Denmark at 70 km/h and cited a page on borger.dk. Both were wrong. The figure was too low, and that page is about fines, licence points and disqualification — it does not mention caravan speed at all. The 70 almost certainly came from the motorhome-with-trailer paragraph above, which is a different class of vehicle. Danish stages were therefore computed 12.5 per cent too slow. It now says 80, with the Road Traffic Act as the source.

The figures above come from the Danish authorities’ own texts and are dated, but Campeur is not a legal source and rules change. Check the signs and the version 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.