Hitchhiking from Madrid
Hitchhiking to Madrid
Recent reviews mentioning Madrid
40.64141, -4.00573
Majority if the cars are going to Madrid, but some are going to the neighbouring towns north. I was going to Santiago (i know, far) with sign saying "A-6, Santiago, A Coruña" next time I would probably just use Ávila or some closer point.rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 45 km ↖
―jkczech, Fri 18 Jul 2025, 10:00
40.02223, -4.48683
direction caceres, dropped by a lift from madridfriday afternoon
its a big station. laods of trucks go for the restaurant, and quite a nice flow of cars at the petrol station
ive been asking everyone across station and restaurant, until 3 chicos going to WOMAD festival (which i was unaware lucky me) drove me all the way to caceres!
rating: 4/5, wait: 90 min 💬, ride: 215 km ←
―mutterichbindoom, Fri 09 May 2025, 14:18
40.31682, -3.89802
the station in good, a decent amount of carsquite a lot of locals...i was going in direction of caceres and on thursday afternoon (from 3PM ) it took me 3h to find a loft to xanadu, a big shopping centre near by (the guy told me was better from there, and after 3h i just took it)
there, in my opinion, was worse, cus being on the other side of the A5, everyone was going towards madrid
i also tried at the roundabout but with no luck
so i went back here, slept on a tent behind the station (its pretty chill), and next morning, after 1h (10-11AM), i found a lift to the station at the 88km, with a restaurant that seems better
lets see
rating: 3/5, ride: 75 km ↙
―mutterichbindoom, Fri 09 May 2025, 09:21
41.60222, 1.54099
i ended up here after a disastrous series of tiny lifts out of barcathe station is massive, loads of trucks (who all told me they couldn't take me with them), gas station where you can ask people, supermarket and apparently showers too
i didnt have time to explore, cus i soon found a lucky lift to madrid, despite i was aim soley to lleida. lucky day for me
some peeps where going to barcelona too, so im sure you can find for both directions
rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 💬, ride: 534 km ←
―mutterichbindoom, Tue 06 May 2025, 17:45
41.59088, 1.60418
i was going dlin direction lleida, i had a big ass sign, my mistake was to leave barcelona with a lift that wasnt direct to there, and ended up in igualada. i had to walk a bit to get here, the most obvious spot to go west (enogh space for car to see you and to stop too), and soon after a nice guy drove me 10min inside the autopista to a quite big service station, where i actually found a lift all the way to madrid. so it went well in the endrating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 7 km ←
―mutterichbindoom, Tue 06 May 2025, 16:41
40.76014, -3.01094
Not many drivers. On this street are so many gas stations (direction madrid-saragossa) that just a few drivers stop on every station, so not many options. In the end we found soneone taking us to the next gas station 20km awayrating: 1/5, wait: 150 min, ride: 32 km ↗
―Anonymous, March 2025
42.24853, -7.86333
Good for direction to Madrid. You can just wait at the entrance of highway or try to ask people at the gas station.rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 👍, ride: 515 km ↘
―Matej, August 2024
36.61212, -4.52724
THIS SPOT IS AMAZING! So many cars and many going to Madrid. You need two people to ask all the drivers. Spots like these make hitchhiking easy in spainrating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬, ride: 524 km ↑
―TajineMachine, August 2024
41.62489, -1.01035
many cars going to Madrid, really easy to hitch a ride.rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 296 km ↙
―crazyrik, April 2024
39.47518, -0.58883
We have been 2 girls, hitchiking during Semana santa to the Madrid. Lots of people had full car, because of holidays, so it was harder to find ride to Madrid. Nice position, it could be easy to find ride in different day.rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min 💬
―Stef, March 2024
43.19082, -2.89641
Bit difficult to get to- had to hike from Ugaos Mirabelles station for a bit then jump over a fence on the other side of the AP68 but after asking for 30 mins or so we got a lift to Madrid ! Think we got very lucky though, a lot of people staying near Bilbaorating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 389 km ↓
―Anonymous, March 2024
40.55565, -3.29419
I may had luck. 8min waiting time. It was 15:00 not really busy. He directly took me to Pamplona. Had to take the train to Meco to leave Madrid. Luckily got a ride from the train station to the gas stationrating: 4/5, wait: 8 min, ride: 356 km ↗
―Anonymous, March 2024
42.34334, -3.68614
I don’t how you people autostop from here. I’m sure it’s possible but just tell me the way. It’s a big road with a looot of cars that don’t have where to stop nor how to see you. On top of that when you go to Madrid the cars nearest to you are not going there so you won’t pick anyone near you. The only idea I had was to ask people on the red light, but as I said it would be people on the middle of the road and I didn’t want to risk being there when the light turns green. I’m disappointed I tried both ways out of Burgos to Madrid and both are bad, I’ll have to take a bus :(rating: 1/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 288 km ↓
―Anonymous, December 2023
42.32532, -3.70159
The cars that go to Madrid will rather pick the other entrance for the highway. Here the car are going all different directions and in the time I waited nobody stopped and I’m sure that if somebody would stio, he wouldn’t be going to Madrid.rating: 2/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 324 km ↓
―Anonymous, December 2023
38.34404, -0.53696
It's very hard to get out of Alicante We waited 2h and a half and the drivers were heading to madridrating: 4/5, wait: 150 min, ride: 216 km ↖
―RickyMP1, November 2023
43.01259, -7.5219
waited 2,5km up the road for an hour, didn't work. moved to this spot, got a ride in 20 minutes in the direction of Ponferrada. could be useful for Madrid and A Coruna also. there is a bus station and a small parkingrating: 4/5, wait: 20 min
―anna, November 2023
49.88713, 2.83697
got a ride from here to Bilbao from someone who was going to Madridrating: 5/5, wait: 5 min
―analau, October 2023
38.14345, -3.72855
On an autumn Sunday this was almost only people returning to Madrid and tour busses. We (m+f) asked as many as we could for 3 hours, slept in the olive grove, asked for another hour and then started thumbing. Someone please confirm if this place is haunted by anti-hitchhiking gremlins.rating: 2/5, wait: 300 min
―Arnulle, October 2023
43.42262, -1.59857
Good spot if you want to go to Bilbao. A lot of cars go there. But we wanted to go south (Burgos, Madrid). After 3hours We had a ride to Zaragoza.rating: 4/5, wait: 180 min, ride: 256 km ↓
―Tinmar, October 2023
48.24743, 3.55511
We fetched a hike all the way to Madrid! Camp spots near improvised! Most cars go to Paris or south-west Tiktok:lissaboysrating: 5/5, wait: 30 min
―Anonymous, October 2023