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Hitchhiking in Finland

Hitchhiking to Finland

Recent reviews in Finland

64.26125, 25.86495

Probably better Spot than Next to crossroad, but there is a High speed of cars

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 576 km ↙

―Skrzypo, September 2025

65.00443, 25.50442

Not the best visibility, but a lot of cars going south

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 27 km ↓

―Skrzypo, September 2025

We waited here for four plus hours, starting at 4 pm. A lot of cars passed in the direction of Turku but no one stopped. We had a sign that said “Turku, suunta”
The spot itself seemed like a good one. A local dropped us off there and claimed that all Helsinki going to Turku would pass there. I don’t think that was true, but either way it was a safe spot for cars to stop, they’d see us and have a very long stroke to drive on and brake. A lot of cars (and busses) would stop to drop ppl off/ pick ‘em up.
The good thing is there is a train station just below with a wide reach and trains until late. We took a train. There also is a shopping centre with supermarket close.

rating: 1/5, wait: 240 min 🪧

―Anonymous, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 21:00

66.48767, 25.6546

A lot of car, but its illegal for them to stop there

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 120 km ↙

―Skrzypo, September 2025

68.90233, 27.03513

There were 3 of us, and we got a ride after 2 hours straight to rovaniemi

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 340 km ↓

―Skrzypo, September 2025

69.06704, 20.76718

There is a finnish customs. 30 km/h and a traffic Light so cars go slowly.

rating: 4/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 51 km ↖

―Anonymous, September 2025

68.60675, 27.48831

I was hitching with 2 friends, and we got Quick ride to neighbor city ivalo

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 8 km ↑

―Skrzypo, September 2025

64.86246, 25.52197

Lots of local traffic, but found a Finnish truck going to Kemi.

rating: 3/5, wait: 20 min 💬, ride: 130 km ↖

―anettlee17, Wed 20 Aug 2025, 14:30

66.04136, 24.01786

Here you have a bus stop with a roof if needed
You also have a K-market
But so it's sad cause half of the cars stops at this supermarket
I waited for a long time, this road is not easy to hitchhack, but an Estonian guy took me all the way to Norway's coast!

rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 544 km ↑

―cabalkin, August 2025

65.84799, 24.1626

You should not stay here
There is a turn just after that, where comes and goes nearly half of the cars
So just walk 200m to the bus stop after the turn

rating: 1/5, wait: 60 min

―cabalkin, August 2025

60.20486, 24.88047

Best spot outbound to Turku, plenty space to see you, plenty space to stop. Our wait was long due to hitchhiking at late evening.

rating: 5/5, wait: 45 min 👍, ride: 58 km ←

―HUGOaspol, Tue 12 Aug 2025, 21:35

60.4596, 22.28248

Took some time, but found a ride all the way to Helsinki.

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 186 km →

―Rinkonini, August 2025

67.33586, 23.82142

Male, Sunday evening in summer, going south to Sweden. Mostly local traffic, but this is a place where people pass from Norway/Finland driving down to Sweden. Also a gasstation and a store nearby. Didn't need to camp because an elderly couple took me late in the evening to Sweden, but I think there is plenty of opportunities to camp in the forest.

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min 🪧, ride: 186 km ↓

―Anonymous, Sun 10 Aug 2025, 20:00

68.28348, 23.08062

Spot is good, but not much traffic and got lucky that finally someone stopped. Summer/Sunday

rating: 4/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 137 km ↓

―Merlin, Sun 10 Aug 2025, 15:58

61.87139, 21.63157

A good spot towards north and south (Bus stops). I think I was very unlucky here, but also not much traffic towards north. A gas station has quite limited opening times.

rating: 4/5, wait: 150 min 🪧, ride: 170 km ↑

―Juho, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 16:00

61.52808, 21.80379

Good spot towards the north

rating: 4/5, wait: 18 min 🪧, ride: 49 km ↑

―Juho, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 15:00

61.50162, 23.54628

A good spot towards Pori.

rating: 4/5, wait: 18 min 🪧, ride: 117 km ←

―Juho, Wed 06 Aug 2025, 08:15

62.06114, 25.59753

Towards south, bus stop with good visibility

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 137 km ↙

―Juho, Tue 05 Aug 2025, 14:30

62.23355, 25.73367

Legal and safe spot to hitch out from Jyväskylä towards Tampere.

rating: 5/5, wait: 2 min 👍, ride: 10 km ↓

―Juho, Tue 05 Aug 2025, 13:36

60.41898, 23.16586

great spot for direction Turku and Helsinki. i found a ride to Turku city centre. i reccomend using a sign

rating: 5/5, ride: 62 km ←

―dr4c3k, July 2025

Recent reviews mentioning Finland

59.44333, 24.7607

Do you want to go to Finland and have experience of the lifetime? If yes, this is a place for you. Stand by the gate to the pier, there is only one and every boat owner need to come through it. Now just ask if somebody is going to Finland and maybe you will be lucky as I was.
Few tips:
Good weather helps
On Friday and weekend plenty of people are going to Finland and back
Summer is prime time
Looking clean is useful
Absolutely majority of boat owners don't wake up before 10 am.
Have your ID/ passport ready.

rating: 5/5, wait: 90 min 💬, ride: 147 km ↗

―martih, Sun 22 Jun 2025, 10:30

69.93097, 23.25706

Good spot to head south from Alta. People can go longer distances to Finland/Sweden. Summer, male traveller

rating: 5/5, wait: 45 min 👍, ride: 229 km ↓

―Anonymous, Sun 10 Aug 2025, 12:42

67.33586, 23.82142

45.84521, 27.21182

Hitchhiking to Chisinau, Moldova.
Perfect spot to Moldova. Write 'Chisinau' to your sign and just wait here👍 I got a ride pretty close to the capital and the border crossing went easily: they just asked one question about declaration. I'm from Finland so I don't know if that has something to do with it. Actually one of my friends had a problem at the border and he recommended to book a hostel or have some proof that you're really staying in Moldova, so I did that just in case. Good luck to everyone.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 213 km ↗

―JoonatanJ, Tue 01 Jul 2025, 15:46

58.52673, 23.03608

Fast traffic, some space for cars to stop. Luckily I got a ride with a local man working in Finland heading back home to Kuressaare and he had no problem taking me all the way to Roomassaare sadam to catch a ferry across to Abruka. He even showed me around the city a bit with his car. I managed to arrive to the harbour two hours ahead of my time, but luckily the captain accepted my story of hitchhiking here and took me across with the earlier ferry.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 58 km ↙

―anettlee17, Sun 21 Jul 2024, 15:00

63.63834, 19.91185

Great spot, both by the road as well as asking around in this parking lot, lots of trucks and mainly getting fuel or food, got a ride offer to Finland within 10 minutes and within 40 minutes got truck going a long distance to south, probably best spot for long distance rides anywhere around here

rating: 5/5

―estohiker, May 2025

61.05926, 28.25817

A wise man once said these words about hitchhiking which have been ringing in my head ever since: "It is not popular in Finland."

Anyways, it's technically a nice spot with loads of space for cars to pull over, many of which turn west onto the highway. Maybe you'll have more luck than we did.

rating: 3/5

―Uri, September 2024

69.37294, 20.28579

Direction: Finland. I stood in the middle of the 2 ramps on the gravel and got a ride very quickly. Amazing views too.

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 52 km ↘

―VeikkaK, June 2024

70.02874, 24.97089

After more than 3 hours I accepted the first ride that took me somewhere between Lakselv and Karasjok. Don't be like me! Only accept rides to at least Karasjok. There is nothing in between.

After 2 more hours in the middle of nowhere I hitched a ride back north, and took the route Alta->Kautokeino->Finland

Disclaimer: it was a sunday, so you might be more lucky on a weekday.

rating: 1/5, wait: 208 min, ride: 57 km ↓

―Chris9012, October 2023

65.9094, 22.67307

Towards Finland.
Speed limit is 110 but you are visable from a good distance. There's a bus stop, so place to stop for drivers and shelter for you. More traffic than the onramp near the town

rating: 5/5, wait: 16 min, ride: 201 km ↘

―Chris9012, September 2023

65.9083, 22.65327

Towards Finland.
In theory it should be a good spot. In practice there was hardly any traffic. After 1,5 hours I walked to the next onramp (15min walk) and got a ride in 15 mins.

rating: 2/5, wait: 90 min

―Chris9012, September 2023

52.21493, 22.73072

Really hard spot!!!! But one truck give me a 2 day ride to Lahti. Hill, double closing line high curb. I thought I would never get out of here. Yet in less than 30 minutes I was already on my way to Finland. Incredible! Thank you P!

rating: 2/5, wait: 28 min, ride: 1238 km ↑

―Utcabetyar, August 2023

65.84139, 24.14696

Great spot, a lot of Finns coming back from Sweden with snuff. Cars go cca 30kmh, plenty of time to decide if they wanna take you. Got a ride to Rovaniemi Santa Claus village in 30 minutes, dont forget to change your clock one hour forward once you arrive in Finland :)

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 136 km ↗

―Venick8827, August 2023

69.47203, 25.51034

Not the best spot to get in direction to Kautokeino, all cars ride to the Nordkapp and people who drove in the direction more to the west (Kautokeino) didn't stop and don't understand hitchhiking. One guy from Switzerland saved us after 6 hours, he took us out of this Saami shithole back to Finland. However some people were offering us to ride with them to the north (Nordkapp) or Alta.

- One of the worst experience. At least stuff members on the gas station were nice and helpful. More than half of the cars were German Caravans or Norwegian in Teslas riding alone and no one stops, even during heavy rain, the evening in 8°C and same in the morning.

rating: 2/5, wait: 360 min, ride: 237 km ←

―Markon, July 2023