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Caravan rules in Finland

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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 Finland

Finland keeps the numbers in the statute itself. The Road Traffic Act sends you to an annex with a table for vehicle combinations, and that table says 80 km/h for a car with a trailer. The one line that says 100 turns on the weight class of the trailer, not on any approval you can apply for.

80 km/h, on every kind of road

  • Where nothing is posted the general limits are 50 km/h in built-up areas and 80 km/h outside them (§ 9).
  • Annex 5.2, line a: a car with a trailer coupled to it, 80 km/h. This is a hard ceiling and it does not move with the road type — a motorway posted 100 or 120 still leaves the combination at 80. A lower posted limit does bind: on a 60 road you drive 60.
  • Line c drops you to 60 km/h if the combination has an unsprung trailer, or if the trailer is unbraked and its classification mass exceeds 750 kg.
  • § 99(2), separately from all of that: a combination may not be driven faster than the construction or manufacturer speed set for either vehicle. Whatever figure the caravan’s papers carry binds on its own.

Sources: the Road Traffic Act 729/2018, § 9, § 99 and annex 5.2 (annex 5.2 as amended by 17.12.2020/1040) and Traficom on towing a trailer, read 11 August 2026.

The only 100 is a weight class, not an approval

  • Annex 5.2, line b: a car or van with a trailer whose classification mass is at most 750 kg — an O1 trailer — may do 100 km/h, empty or loaded. A motorcycle with a trailer is on the same line.
  • A caravan is almost always heavier than 750 kg, so the figure for a caravan is 80. The vehicle class, O1 or O2, is on the registration certificate.
  • Finland runs no Tempo 100 scheme. § 99 makes annex 5.2 the table for combinations, and that table has no approval-based line at all. A German or Danish Tempo 100 plate buys you nothing here.

For contrast, see Norway in detail and Denmark in detail — both of them do allow 100, but only with an inspection, an approval and a mark on the back of the caravan. The Netherlands in detail has no scheme either, yet gives every caravan 90 on the motorway without asking for anything.

A motorhome over 3.5 tonnes follows the bus lines

  • Annex 5.1, line o: a motorhome whose maximum technically permissible mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes takes the speeds laid down for buses — 80 km/h (line m), or 100 km/h (line n) if it carries the special protective devices and safety equipment and has no standing passengers. Traficom issues the technical rules for that equipment.
  • A motorhome at or under 3.5 tonnes simply follows the posted limits, like a car.

Campeur plans Finland at 80

The planner uses 80 km/h across Finland. That is annex 5.2 line a, and it is also the general limit outside built-up areas, so the figure is never above the law. With a light O1 trailer the estimate comes out slightly pessimistic, which is the right direction to be wrong in.

The figures above were read from the statute and from the authority’s own pages and are dated, but Campeur is not a legal source and rules change. Check the signs and the text in force before you drive. Found an error, or have a link to the current wording? Send it to kontakt@campeur.eu and the page gets corrected.