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Caravans and motorhomes in Bulgaria — speed, width, height and length

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Route planner — the whole holiday

List your stops in order — I'll split the driving into daily legs and suggest overnight stops along the way.

Trip settings

Only the places are needed. Everything below is optional and starts from a useful value.

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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.

How the planner works

Set how many nights you stay at each stop. I split the driving between stops into daily legs within your max driving time and suggest an overnight on the way, preferably a campsite that takes your vehicle according to OpenStreetMap. Two places out of three say nothing about it, so check the suggestion before you drive. Then the trip is totalled against your holiday length, and the route is drawn on the Map tab.

Improve the map

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 / stopovertourism=caravan_site
  • Campsitetourism=camp_site
  • Dump stationamenity=sanitary_dump_station
  • Feefee=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.

Bulgaria

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

100 km/h on автомагистрала and скоростен път, 80 извън населено място, 50 within built-up areas, for category ВЕ.

Source. ЗДвП чл. 21 ал. 1, in the version given by ДВ бр. 64 от 5.08.2025, in force 7.09.2025

Dimensions — the figures stand in a regulation on heavy transport, not in the traffic act

Bulgaria has no dimension limits in its traffic act. The Закон за движението по пътищата says in чл. 139 only that a vehicle may be driven with dimensions, mass and axle load not exceeding the norms the minister sets, and the norms stand in a regulation that is not about ordinary vehicles at all but about извънгабаритни, vehicles outside the dimensions. The figures we need are therefore a by-product: they are the definition of what counts as a special transport.

Source. Наредба № 11 от 3 юли 2001 г. за движение на извънгабаритни и/или тежки пътни превозни средства, issued by the minister for regional development and public works, обн. ДВ бр. 65 от 24 юли 2001 г., last amended ДВ бр. 99 от 13 декември 2022 г. The consolidated version is published by the issuing ministry itself.

The scope is contradictory, and that matters. Чл. 1 states what the regulation governs:

Чл. 1. С наредбата се определят:

1. допустимите размери, маса и натоварване на ос на категориите пътни превозни средства и техните ремаркета съгласно чл. 139 от Закона за движението по пътищата, наричани за краткост "ППС", които не представляват опасност за участниците в движението;

2. условията и редът за движение на извънгабаритни и тежки ППС по пътищата, отворени за обществено ползване.

That is category-neutral: all vehicle categories and their trailers. But in the Допълнителни разпоредби § 1 stand two definitions pulling the other way:

2. извънгабаритните и тежките ППС включват основно следните категории: а) M₂, M₃ и техните ремаркета от категория О; б) N₂, N₃ и техните ремаркета от категории О₃ и О₄

4. "ремарке" е ППС (с изключение на полуремарке), конструирано и оборудвано за превоз на товари, предназначено да бъде свързано с моторно превозно средство;

Point 2 enumerates buses and heavy goods vehicles and their trailers — M1 and O1/O2 are missing — but does so with the word основно, mainly, which is a description and not a delimitation. Point 4 is more troublesome: a ремарке is defined as built for the transport of goods, and a caravan is built for living in.

What decides is point 6 in the same paragraph, which defines the outfit without naming either a category or a load:

6. "състав от пътни превозни средства" е: а) моторно превозно средство и свързано с него ремарке, или б) съчленено пътно превозно средство, състоящо се от моторно превозно средство и свързано с него полуремарке;

The same neutral language returns in чл. 5, ал. 11, which sets a turning-circle requirement for всяко движещо се моторно превозно средство или състав от ППС — every motor vehicle or outfit in motion. Taken together: a car with a caravan is caught, but whoever reads only the definitions list may reach the opposite conclusion. It is a third variant of the same delimitation question this whole section is about, and Bulgaria is the first country where the text points both ways at once.

The figures. Чл. 5, ал. 1:

1. широчина на: а) всички ППС, с изключение на превозните средства, посочени в буква "б" - 2,55 m; б) хладилно или надстройки на изотермични превозни средства или изотермични контейнери или сменяеми каросерии, транспортирани с превозни средства - 2,60 m;

2. височина на всички видове ППС - 4,00 m;

3. дължина на: а) всяко моторно превозно средство, с изключение на автобус - 12,00 m; б) ремарке - 12,00 m; в) съчленено ППС - 16,50 m; г) съчленен автобус - 18,75 m; д) моторно превозно средство с едно или повече ремаркета - 18,75 m; е) автобус с две оси - 13,50 m; ж) автобус с повече от две оси - 15,00 m; з) автобус с ремарке - 18,75 m.

DimensionBulgariaArticle
Width2.55 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 1 а)
Width, refrigerated and isothermal bodies2.60 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 1 б)
Height4.00 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 2
Length, motorhome12.00 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 3 а)
Length, caravan12.00 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 3 б)
Length, outfit18.75 mчл. 5, ал. 1, т. 3 д)

The measuring method is the most precisely written in the whole material. Two provisions say how, and one of them expressly closes the door on rounding:

(14) Всички допустими максимални размери се измерват в съответствие с изискванията на приложение № 2 от Наредба № 60 от 2009 г. за одобряване типа на нови моторни превозни средства и техните ремаркета (ДВ, бр. 40 от 2009 г.), без да се допускат допълнителни толеранси.

The dimensions are therefore measured exactly as at type approval, and чл. 28, ал. 2 adds that it is the manufacturer's entered data for the specific type, variant and version that apply. No other country in the material has written out that no additional tolerances are allowed. The load counts in: чл. 2 defines an извънгабаритно vehicle as one where at least one of the dimensions със или без товар exceeds the figures in чл. 5, which means the limit must hold in both states.

Two further geometric requirements apply to the outfit and stand nowhere else in the material. Чл. 5, ал. 7: Разстоянието между задната ос на моторното превозно средство и предната ос на ремаркето не трябва да бъде по-малко от 3,00 m — a minimum distance of three metres between the car's rear axle and the caravan's front axle. Чл. 5, ал. 11: the outfit must be able to turn within a ring of outer radius 12.50 m and inner 5.30 m. And чл. 29: the trailer's lateral swing relative to the car may not exceed 3 per cent of its overall width in either direction.

Exceeding them is not prohibited, it requires a permit — and the permit is not written for leisure vehicles. Чл. 8, ал. 1 says that traffic with извънгабаритни ППС takes place within the framework of специалното ползване на пътищата and is allowed когато е невъзможно или нецелесъобразно да се използва друг вид транспорт или когато товарите не могат да бъдат разглобени на части — when it is impossible or inappropriate to use another mode of transport, or when the goods cannot be divided. The assessment therefore presupposes goods. The permit is issued by Агенция "Пътна инфраструктура", the regional road office or the municipality within five working days of the application and the road charge being paid (чл. 14–15).

The practically most important thing for anyone who ends up there is чл. 12, which replaces the speed limits:

Чл. 12. Извънгабаритните ППС:

1. трябва да се движат със съобразена с пътните условия скорост, но не по-голяма от: а) 70 km/h - по автомагистрали; б) 50 km/h - извън населено място; в) 40 km/h - в населено място; г) 40 km/h - когато се съпровождат; …

3. при паркиране да са извън платното за движение на разстояние не по-малко от 2 m от неговия ръб.

A vehicle that is too wide, too tall or too long therefore does not drive at the country's ordinary speeds but at 70/50/40, and чл. 13 moreover prohibits travel in darkness and during rush hour, in visibility under 50 m because of fog, heavy rain or snowfall, and on ice. Only at a width over 3.50 m, a height over 4.70 m or a length over 24.00 m — or a gross weight over 60 t — is an escort required under чл. 10.

Method note. The regulation's consolidated version exists only as PDF, and our PDF reader gets the figures out but not a single Cyrillic character: the file has five /Type0 fonts with /ToUnicode CMaps that the extractor does not apply. The pages were therefore rendered with ghostscript to PNG at 150 dpi and read as images — the same method as for Kosovo. The Закон за движението по пътищата has not been read in the original: the interior ministry, which administers the act, sits behind a Cloudflare challenge requiring JavaScript in a real browser, and Bulgaria publishes no official free consolidated statute collection. Чл. 139 is therefore reproduced as the regulation itself quotes it in its чл. 1, not from the statute text. The figures in the table above are on the other hand read directly from the issuing ministry's own consolidation.