Hitchhiking from Düsseldorf
Hitchhiking to Düsseldorf
Recent reviews mentioning Düsseldorf
51.27708, 6.76755
A fairly bad spot for hitch hiking, but maybe the best spot in this tangled mess of highways around Düsseldorf.There is no place where you can stand and catch most of the traffic from the car garages, or the people going to the car garages, or people dropping off for departures. Car traffic for arrivals, departures, taxis, and valet service are all mixed together. Exhausting, but doable. Lots of local traffic but also lots of traffic for long distances in all directions.
Hold out for a good ride, if you get dropped off on the wrong side-highway there will be no traffic going further in the direction you want.
Take a few minutes to look for a better spot and report back. One of the remote parking garages might be good.
rating: 3/5, wait: 180 min 💬, ride: 94 km ↙
―Flasher702, Sat 15 Feb 2025, 17:00
48.82058, 9.17499
Great spot! Asked one person and found a ride straight to Cologne (could've gone to Düsseldorf even).I obviously got lucky, but there seemed to be a good amount of traffic.
rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 💬, ride: 355 km ↖
―daganzebuaatramper, Thu 06 Feb 2025, 14:59
51.27731, 12.49124
Very nice spot, even at late evening quite some cars were stopping here, very good for going west (cars going to Dortmund, Bielefeld, Düsseldorf were frequent), but little traffic towards south, wait time of 50 minutes towards south direction, could have gotten a ride to west before thatrating: 4/5
―estohiker, February 2025
50.8081, 7.22012
On an early monday evening during summer it took me 15min of asking half a dozen peeps to find a ride north towards Düsseldorf.―Anonymous, July 2021
51.21782, 6.76848
Cars drive too fast (90 km/h) to pullover. Lots of people are from Düsseldorf or Neuss. Very few cars from Belgium or the Netherlands―Anonymous, June 2015
50.96038, 6.92805
When I was on the S-Bahn, I saw 2 other hikers in this spot, when I arrived in 5 minutes they were gone. Unfortunately for me it didn't go that well, I used a sign that said "Hamburg", then switched to just using my finger - then several cars stopped and offered me rides close by, such as Düsseldorf and Dortmund. Waited about 1h 1/2 - 2h before I quit.―Radu122, May 2015
49.50935, 8.63667
No problem to get north, e.g. Ruhrpott region (Düsseldorf etc.)―Anonymous, August 2014
50.09693, 8.35309
waited with a girl on a sunny sunday during summer for 1:30 hrs for a ride to düsseldorf, but a guy offered a ride to wupertall after 5 min we got there and we refused. We thought we were in a lucky day and somebody would take us directly to köln―Gustavobretz, June 2014
52.30217, 13.01991
came here from a ride within berlin, in a gas station. I waited 5 min to go to düsseldorf (500 km) for me and my friend, although I met others hichhikers who said that they were waiting for 3 hours, because there were 10 others hitchhickers there before them. We met 6 people waiting there in total on a sunday at 13:00―Gustavobretz, April 2014
52.50836, 13.28104
got a ride to outside of berlin within 20 min for me (a guy) and my friend (girl), although took another hour for our friends to get a ride, but it was till düsseldorf (500 km)―Gustavobretz, April 2014
51.20749, 6.02766
Got a ride to Düsseldorf from here, after 5 minutes. Maybe I was lucky.―Anonymous, December 2013
52.91489, 8.4263
I found an elderly couple driving to Velbert which is south of Bochum so they could drop me off at A40 -Bochum Zentrum from where you can walk /take the Subway to Bochum HBF.Works in the region from Dortmund to Düsseldorf (VRR).
Students can take you on their ticket on weekends or after 7PM
―Bunt, December 2013
50.96038, 6.92805
we waited at the traffic lightswith a sign to go düsseldorf. took only 30 min until we got a ride. still hard to stop for cars.―Anonymous, September 2013
50.09693, 8.35309
April 2013: Got there from the train station Auringen-Medenbach (there's a good description in the german wiki!). Got a direct lift to Düsseldorf-Airport from here in almost no time!―Anonymous, April 2013
51.63444, 6.74671
Got a ride to center of Düsseldorf in about 20-30 min. Loads of traffic on a Friday evening (August '12).―Ostkreuz, April 2013
50.81657, 6.21554
good for lifts to Düsseldorf or Köln - further it's harder but possible, especially during holidays!―Anonymous, September 2012
49.31718, 8.57431
I only have to wait 10 min to get a ride to Düsseldorf. it was a wednesday (17:00) in Sommer―Anonymous, July 2011
51.1588, 6.96143
I never waited longer than maybe half an hour. In my opinion, it's the best place to get south from Düsseldorf.―GuterMensch, July 2011
51.20082, 6.76255
Düsseldorf,Südring 115Aral gas station.
Direction Aachen, Belgium A46.
Tram 712 to Südring
rating: 2/5
―Anonymous
50.96038, 6.92805
Very dangerous for cars to stop, but a lot of traffic in Direction Düsseldorf (A57) or Wuppertal (A1).You can take a tram to Nussbaumer Str.
rating: 4/5
―Anonymous