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Caravans and motorhomes in Spain — 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.

Spain

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

90 km/h on autopista and autovía, 80 km/h on carretera convencional. A motorhome without a trailer follows the car limits.

Source. DGT

Dimensions — verified from the Reglamento General de Vehículos

Source: Real Decreto 2822/1998, Reglamento General de Vehículos, consolidated text, "Última actualización publicada el 26/06/2026", retrieved 2026-08-07.

DimensionSpainArticle
Width2.55 manexo IX, tabla 3
Width, temperature-controlled vehicle2.60 manexo IX, tabla 3
Height4.00 manexo IX, tabla 3
Length, car12.00 manexo IX, tabla 3
Length, caravan12.00 manexo IX, tabla 3 (remolques)
Length, outfit18.75 manexo IX, tabla 3 (trenes de carretera)

That the outfit row really does catch a car with a caravan stands in anexo II: "Tren de carretera | Automóvil constituido por un vehículo de motor enganchado a un remolque." No weight limit, no vehicle class — just a motor vehicle plus a trailer. The height limit is "Altura máxima de los vehículos incluida la carga, como norma general — 4,00"; 4.20 is in the table but only for a class I city bus.

Anexo II moreover defines the caravan in a way worth noting for the overnighting question: "Caravana | Remolque o semirremolque concebido y acondicionado para ser utilizado como vivienda móvil, permitiéndose el uso de su habitáculo cuando el vehiculo se encuentra estacionado." Being allowed to use the living quarters when the vehicle is parked is thus written into the vehicle definition. It says nothing about where you may stand — that is another question and another instrument — but it contradicts the common summary that Spanish law prohibits staying in the caravan.

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 Spain ↗. 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.