Hitchhiking from Madrid
Hitchhiking to Madrid
Recent reviews mentioning Madrid
40.54265, -4.01098
University. In weekdays within the school year, you'll have people going through all day, to Galapagar, Madrid, Las Rozas, Torrelodones... Forgot my wallet after class and gave it a go, should be easy as long as you look "normal".rating: 4/5, wait: 1 min 👍, ride: 23 km ↘
―friki, Tue 09 Sep 2025, 14:00
40.55565, -3.29419
Proprqvly the other street is better, pass more cars, how told me the gas station worker. But i went here(take a train from madrid(4.40€) and walk for 40 mins. I was lucky because a meet a bulgarian man who drove me at barca, also payed me the lunch. Very lucky.rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 582 km →
―Giulio, August 2025
40.0213, -3.60511
People here stop much more than in Madrid (I suppose because it’s a small town) nevertheless they go locally so I got stuck in Ocaña. If you want to go south hitchiking I recommend going along la costa del sol avoiding Madrid region because there are more foreign people.rating: 3/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 15 km ↘
―BatouLeGnou, August 2025
40.34174, -3.69307
Hitchiked during summer. That seems to be a perfect plact, the problem is spanish people (at least in the Madrid region) mostly stopped taking hitchikers since COVID. I hitchiked there during more than an hour but no one stopped. There’s a traffic light so I went to see directly people and finally a man accepted to take me, but he was not going far away so I got stuck in a village.I’m sad to say I don’t recomment hitchiking in the Madrid region nowadays, better use the famous car sharing app.
rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 21 km ↓
―BatouLeGnou, August 2025
39.52635, -1.14352
There is almost no traffic, maybe if you are alone, there were few trucks drivers.We stood there realy long time, with a sign to Madrid, then without a sign and then we started to ask people on the gas station. First person was a Czech guy (we are also from Czechia), he told us that he is going to Madrid, but unfortunately he does not take hitchhikers. After that we asked another guy and he took us to Madrid and in Madrid he bought us train tickets to Salamanca, so we were realy lucky. But it is a terrible spot. Boy and girl, afternoon, weekday
rating: 1/5, wait: 240 min 💬, ride: 520 km ↖
―Anonymous, Thu 10 Jul 2025, 16:00
39.47357, -1.01192
Maybe the worst gas station in Spain, or maybe it is because people from Spain do not understand hitchhiking.. First day we stood there for like two hours, it was evening. And police officers told to us to get out of there, because hitchiking on autovias is ilegal. So we get out and build up a tent on a field next to highway, pretty nice spot for camping. The second day we decide to hitchhike on the roundbout with a sign to Madrid, we stood there for maybe six hours? After that time some guy took us to a gas station in that direction, maybe 20 kilometers. We found out that, police officers were waiting for us on the previous spot, so be carefull. P. S. Do not believe people from Spain, if they told you they are going to drop you off on a busy gas station..rating: 1/5, wait: 4000 min 🪧, ride: 16 km ↖
―Anonymous, Thu 10 Jul 2025, 00:00
39.43642, -0.76838
Stood there with a sign to Madrid, very low traffic in that direction. After some time a guy took us.He told us he would drop us off at a busy gas station, it was a lie and in fact the worst gas station in Spain. We werent lucky this time, but I am sure he thought it was a good idea. Boy and girl, late afternoon, weekday
rating: 2/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 26 km ←
―Anonymous, Wed 09 Jul 2025, 17:00
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