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Caravan rules in Norway

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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 Norway

The Norwegian rule is not a fixed caravan speed but a ceiling. The posted limit applies all the way up to 80 km/h; where a stretch is posted higher than 80, a car with a trailer is held at 80 anyway. Norway also runs a Tempo 100 scheme of its own, written into the regulation rather than into a leaflet.

80 km/h is a ceiling, not a limit

  • Where nothing is posted the general limits are 50 km/h in built-up areas and 80 km/h outside them.
  • On a stretch posted higher than 80, a motor vehicle with a trailer may not be driven faster than 80 km/h. So on a 90, 100 or 110 road the combination sits at 80 — and on a 60 road it sits at 60.
  • Independently of all that, you may never tow a trailer faster than it is constructed for. If the caravan’s papers say 80 or 100, that figure is yours.
  • Norway has no separate lower limit for unbraked trailers. What binds is the construction speed and the weight limits for car and trailer.

Sources: the Road Traffic Act § 6, second paragraph, the traffic rules § 13(4) and the vehicle use regulation § 4-2(2), read 11 August 2026.

Tempo 100 — Norway put it in the regulation

The exception in § 13(4)(d) allows up to 100 km/h when both the car and the trailer meet the vehicle use regulation §§ 4-4 and 4-5. It lifts the ceiling; the posted limit still applies.

  • The trailer: a Norwegian-registered one must be approved under the car regulation § 5d and be inside the periodic inspection scheme. Older than four years, it needs a passed roadworthiness test before approval, and then one every two years.
  • Tyres younger than 6 years, speed-rated 120 km/h or more.
  • The Tempo 100 mark on the rear, visible from directly behind, and a valid approval certificate carried in the car — on paper or electronically.
  • Noseweight close to the maximum for the trailer as loaded, without exceeding any of the three manufacturer figures (car, coupling, trailer). Any stabiliser adjusted and tightened per its instructions, and the trailer with load no higher than 4 m.
  • The car: permitted mass at most 3,500 kg, ABS, and a kerb weight with driver at least equal to the calculated figure printed on the trailer’s Tempo 100 certificate. If the car has electronic stability control, the declaration must be carried and the system switched on.

One detail people miss: once a Tempo 100 mark is on the trailer, the documentation must be producible whatever speed you are driving. And a mark that could be mistaken for a real Tempo 100 mark may not be fitted at all.

Sources: the traffic rules § 13(4), the vehicle use regulation §§ 4-2, 4-4 and 4-5 (§§ 4-4 and 4-5 added by regulation of 11 March 2022 no. 363) and Statens vegvesen on Tempo 100, read 11 August 2026.

The Nordic mark travels, the German one does not

  • Since 18 March 2024 a Norwegian Tempo 100 mark is accepted in Denmark, and a Danish mark is accepted in Norway.
  • The catch: a Danish mark does nothing for a Norwegian-registered trailer. If the trailer is registered in Norway it needs a Norwegian mark to exceed 80 km/h in Norway. Denmark grants Tempo 100 approval to trailers registered abroad as well, and without this rule Norwegian owners could simply skip the Norwegian inspection.
  • Germany runs its own scheme. To drive 100 in Germany you need German approval and a German mark; a Norwegian or Danish mark counts for nothing there.

See Denmark in detail for the Danish side of the arrangement, and Germany in detail for why the German scheme accepts no foreign mark at all. Finland in detail is the other case again: no scheme at all, so no mark helps there.

Source: Statens vegvesen, international Tempo 100 schemes, read 11 August 2026.

Campeur plans Norway at 80

The planner uses 80 km/h across Norway. That is the ceiling for a combination without a Tempo 100 approval, and it is also the general limit outside built-up areas. With a Tempo 100 approval your motorway stages come out slightly pessimistic, which is the right side to be wrong on.

The above is taken from the authorities’ own pages and dated, but Campeur is not a legal source and rules change. Check the signs and the regulation in force before you drive. Found an error? Send it to kontakt@campeur.eu and we will correct the page.