Hitchhiking from Tartu
Hitchhiking to Tartu
Recent reviews mentioning Tartu
58.36811, 26.88397
Towards Aovere, but a lot of the cars taking this exit actually usually go quite some long distance (Mustvee/Jõhvi/Jõgeva/Tallinn etc). The turn itself isn't the best, not the most amount of room but you will be able to stop anything due to the low speeds, don't be hesitated about most cars staying on Tartu-Räpina highway, try to aim cars coming from Räpina direction - those are the long distance ones, wait times of 15-45 minutes expected
―estohiker, December 2025
59.32913, 27.40138
Another very good bus stop towards Tartu, decent traffic, has street lights and wide enough, wait times of 20-40 minutes expected
―estohiker, December 2025
58.60011, 27.13342
Towards Tartu, great spot, low speeds due to roundabout, a lot of cars headed towards Tartu especially in the mornings, has street lights and the bus stop is huge, you can stop anything there, wait times of 5-30 minutes expected depending on the time of the day
―estohiker, December 2025
58.8472, 26.914
Towards Tartu, quite uncomfy for the cars to stop but there's not much options around here, try to aim for those rare cars turning from Jõgeva, locals though usually go the other directions, good visibility and does have street lights as positives, wait times of 20-45 minutes expected
―estohiker, December 2025
58.4116, 26.72047
Towards Kõrveküla/Aovere, okay amount of traffic, has street lights and wide bus stop, a good way to skip Tartu and try to get a car further on the Jõhvi highway, wait times of 10-30 minutes
―estohiker, December 2025
58.24608, 26.96242
Either direction this dirt road barely gets any traffic til Uniküla-Vastse-Kuuste road or til Tartu-Räpina highway , had a single car pass on this section and they turned away to the villages before, about a car maximum in a hour, unless you get extremely lucky be prepared to walk all the way towards your destination, wait times of 100+ minutes
―estohiker, December 2025
58.33124, 26.1882
Towards Tartu, uncomfortable spot as its on the turn but cars on the highway don't speed as it still is 70km/h area or just about ended as well as some cars from Sangla would turn, with no speed, so all in all you'll get a car within 10-30 minutes, wouldn't recommend at night time
―estohiker, December 2025
58.28944, 24.60081
Excellent spot. Small roundabout, cars exit very slowly. Good shoulder to wait on for cars going East or South (Viljandi or Tartu).
―daniellorell, November 2025
58.10112, 27.44755
Sunday evening got a straight ride to Tartu. A nice shoulder for cars to stop.
―anettlee17, November 2025
57.89185, 26.84894
Towards Tartu, pretty good bus stop, try to aim for cars coming from Osula, quite some of them go long distance, wait times of 5-20 minutes expected
―estohiker, November 2025
58.07795, 27.03971
Towards Tartu, long straight road with good visibility, possible to stop small cars during the day time, wait times of 30-80 minutes
―estohiker, November 2025
58.06043, 27.04879
Towards Tartu, don't know why, since the spot looks ideal (low speeds, speeding up lane, as well as good visibility) but for some reason can't ever get cars here, my Estonian antirecord of wait times has been here, even has great street lights for the darker times, but seems like mission impossible, genuinely wait times are 100-250 minutes in here, would probably recommend going to Tartu through Ahja or Mooste road, good luck
―estohiker, November 2025
58.23955, 26.4091
Towards Puhja/Tartu, more likely to stop a car going to Tartu, an alternative and a good spot for my liking when it's already very dark outside, as Elva has very good street lighting, as well as cars go in slow speeds, before turning to the highway, wait times of 10-30 minutes expected, most cars here go to Tartu so ideal for that
―estohiker, October 2025
58.14292, 26.24846
Towards Elva/Tartu. Like said before, the spot itself is very small, just barely enough to have a car stop there, but due to just the right amount of traffic and very slow speeds, you will catch a car within 20 minutes, as well as it has good street lights for the dark
―estohiker, October 2025
57.88448, 26.83176
We started walking slowly towards the bigger road, but hitched a ride despite not much traffic straight to the place were we left our bikes near Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.57317, 23.39229
Asked around in the line of cars waiting for the ferry. Most of them were driving towards Tallinn/Harjumaa, but then found a car driving to Tartu through Pärnu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
59.41133, 24.80208
Last Sunday I waited in the dark for 30minutes, this time 15min and both times I luckily got a ride straight to Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.37621, 26.9832
Not much traffic, but still got picked up very quickly and straight to Tartu.
―anettlee17, October 2025
58.01232, 26.16328
Towards Rõngu/Tartu, in theory a very good spot, good enough visiblity, cars coming from Võru road have nice ramp for them, bus stop with roof etc etc, however this part of the road is pretty desolated with very little traffic, furthermore, noone uses this turn to go towards Rõngu, as the traffic from sideroads literally always goes from Tõrva road to Võru road, speeds are high on the main road and wait times of 100+ minutes to be expected, i ended up walking towards Puka on the highway and about a kilometer in managed to stop a car on the highway, so might be worth a shot, good luck
―estohiker, September 2025
58.14292, 26.24846
Not much space to stop, but cars go slow and will pick you up anyway towards Tartu
―Anonymous, August 2025