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Caravans and motorhomes in Netherlands — 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
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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.

Netherlands

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

80 km/h on ordinary roads outside built-up areas. 90 applies only to autosnelweg and autoweg, and only when the trailer's maximum mass is at most 3,500 kg. Article 22 yields to every lower figure in the besluit, and article 21 a is lower. The 90 you often meet comes from pages about the snelweg and does not apply outside it.

Source. RVV 1990 art. 21 a and 22 e · Rijksoverheid on the snelweg, both retrieved 2026-08-11

Dimensions — verified from the Regeling voertuigen

Source: Regeling voertuigen, in force from 2026-01-01, retrieved 2026-08-07.

DimensionNetherlandsArticle
Width, car2.55 mart. 5.2.6 b
Width, caravan2.55 mart. 5.12.6 lid 6
Height, car4.00 mart. 5.2.6 c
Height, caravan4.00 mart. 5.12.6 lid 8
Length, car12.00 mart. 5.2.6 a
Length, caravan12.00 mart. 5.12.6 lid 1
Length, outfit18.00 mart. 5.18.11 lid 7

The wordings: "Personenauto's mogen: a. niet langer zijn dan 12,00 m; b. niet breder zijn dan 2,55 m, en c. niet hoger zijn dan 4,00 m."; "Aanhangwagens, niet zijnde opleggers, mogen niet langer zijn dan 12,00 m."; "Aanhangwagens mogen niet breder zijn dan 2,55 m"; "Aanhangwagens mogen niet hoger zijn dan 4,00 m."; and the decisive one:

De lengte van samenstellen van personenauto of driewielig motorrijtuig en aanhangwagen, mag niet meer bedragen dan 18,00 m.

The Netherlands is the second country after Germany where 18.75 is the wrong figure for a car with a caravan specifically. 18.75 is in the same article, but lid 2 a gives it to combinations with a bedrijfsauto and lid 10 to a bus with a trailer. The passenger car has a point of its own, and it ends at 18.00.

A trap in the structure: the trailer rules stand in two divisions with almost identical wording. Afdeling 12 applies to trailers over 750 kg, that is, a caravan, and it is art. 5.12.6 that is the right one. Afdeling 13 applies to trailers under 750 kg. Both say 2.55 m, so the error would not have shown in the figure — only in the reference.

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 Netherlands ↗. 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.