Austria - Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking in Austria

Hitchhiking to Austria

Recent reviews in Austria

47.49918, 9.73523

very risky, although police ignored us. i recommend having a high-vis vest on

rating: 2/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 7 km ↑

―Melampsorella, September 2025

48.12438, 16.56039

Good place to stand, cars are going slow, they can stop safely

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 48 km →

―borizko, Sat 13 Sep 2025, 09:30

47.76867, 12.94593

Not so busy. Mostly trucks. Worth the wait though. Got a ride in a truck to Frankfurt.

rating: 3/5, wait: 183 min 👍, ride: 486 km ↖

―Chris9012, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 10:29

I didn't like the spot. The parking bay is quite small and traffic fast. No doubt a "mad man driver" wouldn't care, but sometimes you just want normal drivers. So I took the busses to the border gas station

rating: 2/5, wait: 60 min 🪧

―Chris9012, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 07:30

48.12388, 16.56401

Look for SK license plate, and stir them in there eyes.

rating: 2/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 48 km →

―Luckty, September 2025

48.19272, 16.20206

It‘s not a good place and it‘s illegal to do it here, but I‘ve got a car really fast and got to München without signal to driver :)

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 411 km ←

―Anonymous, September 2025

48.14935, 15.55195

Great spot to hitchike to St. Pölten

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 7 km ↗

―aniGGina, September 2025

48.21467, 14.28267

Don´t start too early in the morning. We did and there was not too much traffic. After unsuccessfully trying to hitch the country road we came back split up and found a lift for each of us pretty quickly.

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 125 km ↙

―LJIsTooShort, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 12:30

47.82583, 13.05456

waited for about one and a half hours before giving up - in theory the spot is good tho, good space to pull over

rating: 3/5, wait: 110 min, ride: 310 km →

―ari, September 2025

46.57962, 14.0006

Not a lot of traffic. And people go to both directions.

rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 32 km ↓

―Anonymous, September 2025

48.11791, 16.62224

We were walking this road because we had previously tried to catch a hitchhiking from the airport (it is very difficult to do it - no one wants to stop) so we wanted to walk to the entrance to the A4 road near the city of Fischamend when suddenly a lady stopped near us and asked if we were going towards Budapest and if we wanted to go with her because she was going to Gyor. He must see the box with the inscription "Budapest" that we had attached to the backpack. In general, it seems to us that when entering the A4 road, catching a hitchhiking should go smoothly - we were just very lucky

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 118 km ↘

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 16:20

48.18163, 16.44457

We were heading towards Budapest but few people were going towards Hungary. More people are heading to a nearby airport. So we caught a ride to the airport and from there we will try to catch a hitchhiking to Budapest.

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 💬+🪧, ride: 14 km ↘

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 13:00

48.19065, 16.41925

Weak spot - you can't hitchhike on the motorway - we were picked up by the road service and dropped to the nearest station - there was no ticket, but they told us that there was an absolute ban on catching a foot on the highway.

rating: 1/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 1 km ↘

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 12:34

48.31074, 16.51481

A good place if you want to go towards Italy, France and Germany or the Czech Republic. We were heading towards Budapest and we had some difficulties to find someone who was driving in that direction. But a lot can depend on what time you hitchhiking. On the plus side, a lot of trucks and quite a lot of passenger car traffic at the gas station. A good place to stop/accommodate. There is a shower, laundry, hostel.

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min 💬+🪧, ride: 19 km ↙

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 11:05

48.55627, 16.57996

Good spot to go to Vienna
Got picked up by the third car, got taken close to Vienna.
It's in a shade, cars have nice spot to stop and people are going to the direction of Vienna. Feels comfortable.
2 guys, backpackers

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 🪧, ride: 43 km ↙

―SimonSteven, Mon 01 Sep 2025, 16:45

48.70015, 16.82395

Stood with sign Wien for 5 minutes, got taken to Mistelbach. Good spot in the shade, cars have place to stop, low traffic tho, I think we were really lucky
2 guys, backpackers

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 31 km ↙

―SimonSteven, Mon 01 Sep 2025, 15:37

48.40698, 13.42837

A lot of trucks stop here for a customs and overnight sleep. But after asking everyone on a parking, I decided to try to hhike on a side of the road, as a speed is very slow and it a lot of space for car to stop. After 20 min there got a ride in the direction Nürnberg to the next gas station.

rating: 3/5, wait: 95 min 🪧, ride: 98 km ↖

―estasbien, Fri 05 Sep 2025, 09:05

46.65255, 13.87511

Actually a quite good spot where cars are coming from the Lidl parkinglot. Quite a lot cars but maybe not so much are driving north

rating: 4/5, wait: 200 min, ride: 59 km ↖

―Anonymous, September 2025

47.75613, 13.00676

Get the Bus to Glanegg and Walk 10 Minutes to the Spot. You Need to Climb a fence to get there. But then you are Directly on the Highway. It is Not a big parking Slot, but we fastly found a friendly Truck driver to Slowenia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min

―RosaLuxemburg, September 2025

48.19621, 16.2617

That's how the classic hitchhiking spot should look like - cars going slow, there is plenty of space to stop and you are visible from a far. I got there on Wednesday evening and got a ride to Andorf (small town in north Austria) with a driver who was going to Munich eventually.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 250 km ←

―estasbien, Wed 03 Sep 2025, 19:30

Recent reviews mentioning Austria

47.53479, 9.39693

We stood near th fruit stand. Great visibility, good spot for direction of Austria or Germany

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 33 km →

―Melampsorella, September 2025

45.79463, 19.69438

A lot of traffic, mostly - but not only - cars from Germany, Austria, but also Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia.
However! Germans won't take you, so it is better not to waste time with them...

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬, ride: 457 km ↖

―IGMartyOnTheMap, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 20:10

43.40059, 17.03878

I went north and it was very easy to find a ride that takes you north on the highway, many tourists that go to germany, slowenia or austria

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 146 km ↖

―Tjarko, September 2025

48.33806, 11.60764

Don't try to go west. No one goes to the west and no one goes to munich. Had to take the S-Bahn to munich.

Might be a good spot to the south and especially towards Austria though

rating: 2/5, wait: 120 min

―tom, September 2025

48.19621, 16.2617

50.37221, 18.74387

Very good spot if you are going direction to Czech or Austria. Just showed my sign and the first truck took me to Brno

rating: 5/5, wait: 2 min 🪧, ride: 243 km ↙

―estasbien, Wed 03 Sep 2025, 10:10

48.05913, 10.84836

Hard to find people going to A9 or Czech republic. But we found a guy who took us all the way to Prague. So I guess it was worth the wait :)
But maybe consider taking a ride on to the A8 if you want to continue north/East

A lot of people going to Munich and Austria though

rating: 2/5, wait: 105 min, ride: 430 km ↗

―tom, Mon 01 Sep 2025, 13:48

47.46003, 9.0941

Alright spit. Not too much traffic but some people go towards austria

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 186 km ↗

―tom, Mon 01 Sep 2025, 09:17

48.79593, 16.63341

Great spot, everybody is going to Austria

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 97 km ↓

―Anonymous, August 2025

45.51689, 12.63493

We were stopping there with multiple huge signs (slovenia, austria, airport)
People passing be were interested and slow down to read the signs (we were creating a small traffic gem)
The first guy who stoped was going to austria but didn't have enough space for both of us.
After another 3h a guy from germany took as to the airport.
The spot is propably as good as it gets around here.

rating: 4/5, wait: 240 min 🪧, ride: 29 km ←

―Anonymous, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 17:20

46.09658, 14.46545

The place is currently under contruction but it works. If you are heading to Austria I recomend to take only cars going to highway. We made this mistake and it was pain to get back

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 54 km ↖

―tomasfogl, August 2025

51.04973, 16.96973

We were a group of 6 people, first car took 4 person after around 30 minutes and then after around 20 minutes the rest already got a car. We are on the way to austria but most of the people go here to krakow and we got one to Rybnik city

rating: 5/5, wait: 55 min 🪧, ride: 193 km ↘

―ptulish, Mon 11 Aug 2025, 14:09

45.43105, 10.70144

Waited here a long time without getting a ride. I wanted to go to Brenner, Austria, but most cars went to Milano or Verona. Therefore its better for this directions, but not really for going northwards. I stood in front of the sign but the most time next to the parking lot. As I went to the spot behind the toll station an Italian guy stopped and said its forbidden to stay there. After that I went to the big roundabout.

rating: 3/5, wait: 150 min 🪧

―rubntf97, August 2025

47.21334, 10.69713

Seems like a good place at first sight, but it's really wortless. Many Austrians with space in the car pass me by smiling, but no willing to help. I had problems in all over the Austria, but Tirol is something special

rating: 1/5, wait: 200 min

―Stoppy, August 2025

48.08589, 17.09865

good towards Austria. Horrible towards Hungary

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 130 km ←

―jebemtimamu, August 2025

48.08494, 17.09925

Great towards Austria, shit towards Hungary

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 131 km ←

―jebemtimamku, August 2025

47.5485, 9.72924

Great spot! 15min wait with a Munich sign, and a couple picked me up, giving me a ride all the way to Landsberg. Traffic goes in multiple directions, and many telling me they were heading to Austria

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 126 km ↗

―malu, July 2025

46.60712, 15.6626

many tourists coming from Austria, Germany, with no Space, a Ukrainian dad with his children picked both of us up (m/22) we definitely recommend trying in the morning till afternoon, we waited 3hrs from 18:30 - 21:30 the day before and slept in the woods nearby, the next day it took us 25min to get picked up

rating: 3/5, wait: 25 min 🪧, ride: 227 km ↙

―just2chillguys, Thu 24 Jul 2025, 11:00

50.00878, 14.54412

Tried for a long to go to Austria directly but didnt have any luck. When we switched to Brno we got a hitch quite fast.

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 220 km ↘

―pengapangarna, July 2025

42.17408, 2.93291

It's a perfect spot, many international plates. restaurant parking, truck parking and gas station are all in one triangle so easy to keep an overview of new arriving cars/trucks. Still waited almost 1,5 hours, many cars were full are people with Children. Got lucky with a ride to my destination Valence, would've taken me to Austria tho

rating: 5/5, wait: 80 min 💬, ride: 422 km ↗

―Menno, July 2025