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Caravan rules in the Netherlands

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Saved and shown while you navigate. Campeur does not route by them, but warns when your rig exceeds the limits of the country you enter. Weight is shown only: no country in our material sets a weight limit that binds a private rig.

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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 the Netherlands

The Dutch figures sit in one decree, the RVV 1990. Two articles do the work. Article 21 sets the general limits outside built-up areas, and article 22 sets special limits for particular vehicles — but only, in its own opening words, voor zover niet ingevolge andere artikelen van dit besluit een lagere maximumsnelheid geldt: in so far as no lower limit applies under another article. That sentence is the whole story for a caravan.

90 on the motorway, 80 on every other road outside town

  • Article 21 a, outside built-up areas: 130 on an autosnelweg, 100 on an autoweg, 80 on other roads.
  • Article 22 e: a car, van, motorcycle or three-wheeler towing a trailer whose permitted maximum mass is at most 3,500 kg may do 90 km/h. A caravan is such a trailer.
  • Because article 22 applies only where nothing lower applies, the 90 bites only where the general figure is higher — on the autosnelweg and the autoweg. On any other road outside a built-up area, article 21's 80 is the lower number, and therefore the one that binds.
  • Inside a built-up area, article 20: 50 km/h.
  • Article 22 f: a trailer over 3,500 kg permitted maximum mass puts the combination on 80 everywhere, motorway included.
  • Signs still win downwards. From 06:00 to 19:00 nearly every Dutch motorway is posted at 100, and some stretches at 80. A lower posted limit binds, but nothing posted ever lifts a caravan above 90.

Sources: RVV 1990 (BWBR0004825), articles 20–22, in the version in force from 1 July 2026, and Rijksoverheid on motorway limits. Both read 11 August 2026.

There is no plate to apply for

  • The 90 is not an approval. It follows from the trailer's permitted maximum mass on the registration certificate, the kentekenbewijs, and every caravan under 3,500 kg has it from the moment it is coupled.
  • The Netherlands does have one approval-based speed category — the T100-bus of article 22 b, a coach cleared for 100 km/h — but it is a bus category. There is no Dutch counterpart for a car with a caravan.
  • So a German or Danish Tempo 100 mark is worth nothing here. It also buys nothing: with no mark at all, the Dutch motorway figure for a caravan is already 90.

For contrast, see Germany in detail and Denmark in detail, where 100 exists but only after an inspection, an approval and a mark on the back of the caravan. Finland in detail is the other extreme: no scheme, and no exception either.

A motorhome over 3.5 tonnes gets the lorry number

  • Article 22 a: a kampeerwagen registered as a bedrijfsauto with a permitted maximum mass over 3,500 kg is on 80 km/h, the same figure as lorries and ordinary coaches.
  • At or under 3,500 kg a motorhome follows the ordinary car limits — 100 or 130 on the motorway, depending on the sign and the hour.

Campeur plans the Netherlands at 80

The planner carries one speed per country, and it has to be a figure that is never above the law. For the Netherlands that is 80, not 90: the 90 holds on the autosnelweg and the autoweg, while every other road outside a built-up area is 80. This corrects an earlier figure of 90, which was the motorway number. Motorway legs now come out slightly pessimistic, which is the right direction to be wrong in.

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