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Caravans and motorhomes in Finland — 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.

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.

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 / 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.

Finland

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

80 km/h. A light trailer in class O1 with a maximum mass of 750 kg: 100 km/h, unladen as well.

Source. Traficom

Dimensions — verified from tieliikennelaki 729/2018

Source: tieliikennelaki 729/2018, consolidated version fin@20260281, updated 2026-04-17, retrieved 2026-08-07 from Finlex open data:

https://opendata.finlex.fi/finlex/avoindata/v1/akn/fi/act/statute-consolidated/2018/729/fin@latest
DimensionFinlandArticle
Height, car and trailer4.40 m126 §, liite 7.2 a
Width, car and car trailer2.60 m126 §, liite 7.2 b
Width, the passenger car2.55 m126 §, liite 7.2 f
Length, outfit18.75 m125 §, liite 7.1 j
Length, individual caravan12.50 m without the drawbar125 §, liite 7.1 i
Length, individual car13.00 m125 §, liite 7.1 e

The wordings, in order: "Auton ja perävaunun suurin sallittu korkeus … 4,40"; "Muun kuin c, d ja f kohdassa tarkoitetun auton ja auton perävaunun suurin sallittu leveys … 2,60"; "Henkilöauton suurin sallittu leveys … 2,55"; "Henkilö-, paketti- tai linja-auton ja muun perävaunun kuin puoliperävaunun yhdistelmä … 18,75"; "Muu kuin f tai g kohdassa tarkoitettu perävaunu vetoaisaa mukaan lukematta … 12,50".

The width split is the same kind as the German one but in the other direction: exception f applies to the henkilöauto, that is, the towing car. The caravan is an auton perävaunu and is caught by the main rule of 2.60. The outfit may therefore be 2.55 at the front and 2.60 at the back — in Denmark the difference would instead have been limited.

The height is the single most important figure in the whole dimensions section. 4.40 m is forty centimetres above Denmark's and Germany's 4.00. A Finnish outfit can be perfectly legal at home and illegal as soon as it rolls off the ferry. That was worth evidencing and not guessing. There is no requirement in the law in force to check the route above a certain height: the string 4,20 does not occur once in the 274,183 characters.

The trap that nearly sank the whole section: a readable law can be repealed. The search first led to asetus ajoneuvojen käytöstä tiellä 1257/1992, which is served by the authority's own API, can be quoted word for word and contains exactly the paragraphs sought. It is repealed. The proof stands in the metadata:

<finlex:isInForce value="false"/>

The signal to look for was the consolidation date — 2019-01-10 in a search made in 2026 — but what decides is the tag, not the gut feeling. The rule that follows: read isInForce before you quote, not after. That the text comes from the authority itself is not enough; repealed instruments stay there, and they read just as convincingly as the ones in force.

A second trap in the same law: liite 8.6 (139 §) gives 4.00 m height and 2.55 m width. It applies to a muussa kuin ETA-valtiossa rekisteröity ajoneuvo — vehicles registered outside the EEA. A Swedish or German outfit is governed by 126 § and liite 7.2, not by that. Two contradictory tables in the same law, and the heading is the only thing separating them.

The way past the JavaScript portal was open data. finlex.fi gave 1,877,898 bytes that extracted to 1,612 characters of page frame, exactly as the note above predicted. The API gave Akoma Ntoso XML directly. The address forms that work:

.../v1/akn/fi/act/statute-consolidated/<year>/<no>              # all versions
.../v1/akn/fi/act/statute-consolidated/<year>/<no>/fin@latest   # in force, Finnish
.../v1/akn/fi/act/statute-consolidated/<year>/<no>/swe@latest   # in force, Swedish

data.finlex.fi/eli/... gives 404 throughout, /fin@ without latest gives 404 and /fin alone gives 400.