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

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The whole holiday, night by night

Tell us where you're going. We split the drive into daily legs and find somewhere to sleep every evening.

  • Legs that fit your driving time
  • A campsite or aire every night
  • Rules and size limits for every country
Trip settings
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days

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.

Tools

Caravan level

Lay your phone on the floor and the tilt sensor shows which wheel, corner or jockey wheel needs to go up, and roughly by how much. (In Swedish only so far.)

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 / 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.

Germany

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

80 km/h outside built-up areas and on the Autobahn. A Tempo-100 plate gives 100 on the Autobahn. § 3 does not apply to the Autobahn — that figure comes from § 18 Abs. 5, which must be cited separately.

Source. StVO § 3 · StVO § 18

Dimensions — verified from the StVZO

Source: StVZO § 32, retrieved 2026-08-06.

DimensionGermany
Width, general2.55 m
Width, passenger car2.50 m
Height4.00 m, applies to all vehicles, combinations and trailers
Length, individual vehicle and individual trailer12.00 m (Abs. 3 Nr. 1)
Length, car with caravan18.00 m (Abs. 4 Nr. 3 a)

The passenger-car row is worth noticing: 2.50 m, not 2.55 — and it applies only to the car. The caravan is an Anhänger and falls under the general row of 2.55 m. The outfit may therefore lawfully be wider at the back than at the front, which is the opposite of the Danish rule (trailer at most 0.35 m wider).

The length question is now settled, and the answer is the lower of the two figures. Abs. 4 divides Züge into points, and point 3 expressly excepts point 4:

bei Zügen, ausgenommen Züge nach Nummer 4: a) Kraftfahrzeuge außer Zugmaschinen mit Anhängern 18,00 m, b) Zugmaschinen mit Anhängern 18,75 m

Point 4 is a lorry with a goods trailer (18.75 m) and point 3 b) is a Zugmaschine, a tractor unit in the agricultural sense. A car with a caravan is neither one nor the other but a Kraftfahrzeug außer Zugmaschine mit Anhänger — point 3 a), 18.00 m. The most-quoted figure, 18.75, is therefore wrong for this particular outfit, by 75 centimetres.

Retrieved and read at paragraph level 2026-08-07.

Rules other than these. Alcohol limits, seatbelts, child seats, mobile phones, winter tyres and daytime running lights are not on Campeur and will not be. Your Europe, run by the Commission, has them country by country: road rules in Germany ↗. Do not read it for caravan speed — that cross-check has been made, and the portal was wrong in four countries out of twenty-one.