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Caravans and motorhomes in France — 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.

France

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

An outfit over 3.5 tonnes: 90 km/h on the motorway, 80 on a road with a central reservation (90 if at most 12 t), 80 on other roads. Under 3.5 tonnes R413-8 does not apply — then it is the car limits.

Source. Légifrance, R413-8 and R413-9

Dimensions — verified from the code de la route

Source: code de la route, art. R312-10 (in force since 2020-07-01), art. R312-11 and art. R311-1 (both in force since 2022-01-16), read 2026-08-07.

DimensionFranceArticle
Width2.55 mR312-10 I 2°
Width, temperature-controlled vehicle2.60 mR312-10 I 1°
Heightno general limit—
Length, car12 mR312-11 I 2°
Length, caravan12 m including the coupling deviceR312-11 I 3° a
Length, outfit18.75 mR312-11 I 8°

The outfit row needs an intermediate step. R312-11 has two candidates: 8° train routier at 18.75 m and 11° "Autres ensembles de véhicules : 18 mètres". Which applies is decided by the definition in R311-1 point 7.2:

Train routier : ensemble constitué d'un véhicule à moteur auquel est attelée une remorque ou une semi-remorque dont l'avant repose sur un avant-train

No weight limit, no vehicle class, no requirement of goods transport. A car with a caravan is therefore a train routier and gets 18.75 m, not 18. That is the opposite of how it went in Germany and the Netherlands, where the counterpart of the French wording had exceptions built in.

The caravan row hides a difference that is easy to miss: R312-11 I 3° a says "Remorque de catégorie O, y compris le dispositif d'attelage : 12 mètres" — the coupling device counts in. The United Kingdom counts it out, Finland expressly excludes the drawbar. Twelve metres in France is therefore a smaller caravan than twelve metres in Denmark, where the wording says nothing.

The height row rests on absence, and it has been searched the same way as the Swedish one: the whole of chapter II (Poids et dimensions, art. R312-1 to R312-25, all 25 articles in a single retrieval) contains the word hauteur once only, in R312-16: "La hauteur des motocyclettes, des tricycles et quadricycles à moteur et des cyclomoteurs ne peut excéder 2,50 mètres." Cars and trailers are not mentioned. There is no French height limit for a car-and-caravan outfit.

The route there: legifrance.gouv.fr answers 403 with Cloudflare's "Just a moment…" to curl. The pages are however server-rendered, so Wayback has usable copies. web.archive.org/web/<ts>id_/… gave a 302 to an empty record — without id_ the whole page came through. A case where the rewritten archive page is better than the raw bytes.