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Caravans and motorhomes in Latvia — 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
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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.

Latvia

Cap in the app: 90 km/h.

Speed

90 km/h outside built-up areas. The list of exceptions in point 103 has no entry for trailers. A gravel or macadam road gives 80 (point 103.5), but that is a surface condition, not a trailer rule.

Source. likumi.lv, MK noteikumi Nr. 279, point 101 in the version given by MK 2024-01-16 Nr. 56

Dimensions — the only country that catches every combination in plain words

Latvia is the counter-example to everything above. Where the other countries wrote their dimension rules for goods transport and left the car outside, in Latvia the combination stands already in the heading of the annex:

Pieļaujamie transportlīdzekļu (transportlīdzekļu sastāvu) gabarīti (ar kravu vai bez tās), faktiskā masa un ass slodze

"Permitted dimensions of vehicles (vehicle combinations) (with or without load), actual mass and axle load." That the combination is named in the heading is no accident. Point 194 enumerates what becomes subject to a permit if annex 2 is exceeded, and the third limb of the enumeration has no delimitation:

194. Ja kravas automobiļu, kuru pilna masa pārsniedz 3,5 t, autobusu un to piekabju, kā arī transportlīdzekļu sastāvu gabarīti ar kravu vai bez tās, ar noņemamo aprīkojumu (piemēram, iekrāvēju) vai bez tā, faktiskā masa vai ass slodze pārsniedz šo noteikumu 2. pielikumā minētos lielumus, atļauja braukšanai pa ceļiem jāsaņem normatīvajos aktos par lielgabarīta un smagsvara pārvadājumiem noteiktajā kārtībā.

Two of the limbs are delimited: lorries with a gross weight over 3.5 tonnes, and buses and their trailers. The third — kā arī transportlīdzekļu sastāvu, "as well as vehicle combinations" — is not. And what a transportlīdzekļu sastāvs is, the noteikumi define themselves, in point 2.28:

2.28. transportlīdzekļu sastāvs – mehāniskais transportlīdzeklis, kas savienots ar piekabi (puspiekabi), kā arī savienots velkošais un velkamais transportlīdzeklis;

"A motor-driven vehicle joined to a trailer (semi-trailer), as well as a joined towing and towed vehicle." No vehicle category, no weight limit, no reference to goods transport. A car with a caravan is a transportlīdzekļu sastāvs, and the annex's figures apply to it.

Source. likumi.lv, Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 279 of 2 June 2015, Ceļu satiksmes noteikumi, 2. pielikums in the version given by MK 06.07.2021. noteikumu Nr. 487, amended by MK 16.01.2024. noteikumiem Nr. 56.

DimensionLatviaArticle
Width, car2.55 m (visiem transportlīdzekļiem, all vehicles)2. pielikums 2.1.
Width, trailer2.55 m (2.60 for an insulated body)2. pielikums 2.1. and 2.2.
Height4 m2. pielikums 3.
Length, caravan12 m (piekabēm)2. pielikums 1.2.
Length, motorhome12 m (mehāniskajiem transportlīdzekļiem, bus and trolleybus excepted)2. pielikums 1.1.
Length, outfit18.75 m (automobiļa ar piekabi)2. pielikums 1.4.

The annex moreover sets two dimensions that none of the other retrieved instruments expresses as precisely: the turning circle of 12.50 m outer and 5.30 m inner radius (point 4), and the distance from the foremost point of the load space on the car to the rearmost of the trailer, 15.65 m (point 6). The latter is a goods rule and does not touch a caravan.

The dimension is taken with load, and it says so twice. Both the annex heading and point 194 say ar kravu vai bez tās — with or without load, that is, the greater of the two states. Point 194 adds ar noņemamo aprīkojumu … vai bez tā, with or without removable equipment. The exceptions that exist do not touch caravans: 194.¹ concerns type-approved aerodynamic cabs and devices, the annex's point 17 measures car transporters empty, and points 18 and 20 give 15 cm extra for intermodal transport of 45-foot containers.

Method note. likumi.lv delivers the consolidated version as ordinary HTML at the same address as the base instrument, with the annexes in the same document — no JS shell, no API, no login. Each annex carries its own version marking in its heading, which is what makes it possible to state the version exactly. It is the simplest retrieval of them all.

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 Latvia ↗. 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.