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Caravans and motorhomes in Sweden — 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 / stopovertourism=caravan_site
  • Campsitetourism=camp_site
  • Dump stationamenity=sanitary_dump_station
  • Feefee=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.

Sweden

Cap in the app: 80 km/h.

Speed

80 km/h braked. Unbraked: 80 if the gross weight does not exceed half the car's kerb weight, otherwise 40.

Source. Transportstyrelsen

Dimensions — verified from the statute

Source: trafikförordningen (1998:1276), chapter 4. The provisions apply to "a motor-driven vehicle other than a bus, with or without a vehicle coupled to it", so to a car with a caravan as well.

DimensionSwedenArticle
Width2.60 m including load4 kap. 15 §
Length, vehicle combination24.0 m including load4 kap. 17 §
Length, motorhome24.0 m including load4 kap. 17 §
Length, individual trailerno general limit4 kap. 17 § e contrario
Heightno general limit

Three of the five rows deviate from what is usually claimed. Sweden allows 2.60 m in width, not 2.55, and a 24.0 m vehicle combination, not 18.75. And the third deviation is a correction of what stood here before.

Correction: the 12.0 metres for an individual trailer do not exist. The row stood here with 4 kap. 17 § as its article, and it was wrong. The figure 12.0 occurs in the trafikförordning, but never as a limit — only as a condition for an exception. Six occurrences of "12,0 meter" exist in the whole instrument, three in 17 § and three identical in 17 f §, and all six sit inside the exceptions permitting 25.25 and 34.5 metres:

2. Varje ingående motordrivet fordon har en största längd av 12,0 meter.

3. Varje ingående släpvagn, utom påhängsvagn, har en största längd av 12,0 meter.

4. Avståndet mellan kopplingstappen och bakkanten på en påhängsvagn överstiger inte 12,0 meter.

Whoever stays under 24.0 m therefore never has to meet them. The expression longer than … metres occurs exactly once in the whole trafikförordning, and it is in 17 § first sentence:

17 § Ett annat motordrivet fordon än en buss med eller utan ett därtill kopplat fordon får inte föras på andra vägar än enskilda om fordonet eller fordonståget, lasten inräknad, är längre än 24,0 meter.

The same sentence gives the motorhome row. "With or without a vehicle coupled to it" — a motor-driven vehicle on its own is measured against the same figure as the outfit. Sweden is therefore the only country in the material that does not set twelve metres on a motorhome, and that is not a generosity but a consequence of the instrument never splitting the dimension.

The height row rests on absence, which requires more than a glance: the whole instrument was searched, and the word "höjd" occurs on a single line — in the expression "höjd beredskap", heightened preparedness, which is about something else entirely. There is therefore no height provision. Bridges and tunnels are signposted individually instead.