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Caravans and motorhomes in Denmark — 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
2 h8 h14 h
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.

Denmark

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

80 km/h uanset vejtype — the færdselslov gives the outfit a single figure, motorway and ordinary road alike. A Tempo 100-approved outfit: 100, but only on the motorway. The plate sits on the caravan; the car carries no plate but must meet the requirements. The 70 that often turns up in Danish contexts applies to a motorhome over 3.5 tonnes with a trailer, not to a car-and-caravan outfit.

Source. LBK nr 118 af 12/01/2026 § 43 stk. 3–4 · Færdselsstyrelsen, Tempo-100, both retrieved 2026-08-11

Dimensions — verified from the bekendtgørelse

Source: Bekendtgørelse om køretøjers største bredde, længde, højde, vægt og akseltryk, retrieved 2026-08-06.

DimensionDenmarkWording
Width2.55 m"Et køretøj må ikke have en bredde, der overstiger 2,55 m"
Height4.00 m"Et køretøj må ikke have større højde end 4,00 m"
Length, vogntog18.75 m"Andre vogntog end bil med sættevogn må ikke have en længde, der overstiger 18,75 m"
Length, påhængsvogn12.00 m"En påhængsvogn til bil må ikke have en længde, der overstiger 12,00 m"
Length, motorhome12.00 m"Et motordrevet køretøj må ikke have en længde, der overstiger 12,00 m, jf. dog § 9" (§ 8)

One more rule that hits caravans in particular: the trailer may not be more than 0.35 m wider than the towing car on either side. A wide caravan behind a narrow car may therefore be illegal even if it stays under 2.55 m.

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 Denmark ↗. 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.