Hitchhiking in Germany

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Hitchhiking to Germany

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Recent reviews in Germany

50.88172, 7.93439

Asked a funny looking guy. He took me to WΓΌrzburg

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min πŸ’¬, ride: 235 km β†˜

―Tobi, September 2025

47.54789, 9.72793

we asked people around for about an hour - without any luck. It was late at night so in similar situation i recommend going to the roundabout

rating: 2/5

―Melampsorella, September 2025

47.5485, 9.72924

Great spot. It took us about 1o minutes to get a ride at 9 pm

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min πŸͺ§, ride: 190 km β†—

―Melampsorella, September 2025

51.63728, 6.74593

I was there on a Saturday afternoon. Many people heading to Utrecht/Amsterdam bbut they were always full. But got a lift to Utrecht

rating: 5/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 152 km β†–

―Tobi, September 2025

50.25327, 8.66349

I hitchhiked there in the morning, there wasnt a lot of traffic, I guess its better to get onto the bigger gas station further on the highway, but it is easy to get there from Frankfurt (you have to jump over the fence tho) and there are some cars going to Berlin/Poland

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 668 km β†—

―Paetrick, September 2025

49.30708, 10.9662

I was really lucky and got a ride directly to the vineyard where i was heading, but it is a good spot. A lot of french cars going towards the south of france.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 716 km ↙

―Paetrick, September 2025

50.05548, 8.9097

Wildcamped at: 50.055, 8.9237 Just a 15 min walk.
Got a ride to the Netherlands.

rating: 5/5, wait: 87 min πŸ‘, ride: 324 km β†–

―Chris9012, Tue 09 Sep 2025, 08:33

50.90584, 14.83455

Quiet place but still got a ride in 7 minutes.

rating: 4/5, wait: 7 min πŸ‘, ride: 30 km β†˜

―Chris9012, Sat 23 Aug 2025, 11:00

50.99259, 14.71413

With sign "Zittau".

rating: 4/5, wait: 9 min πŸͺ§, ride: 14 km β†˜

―Chris9012, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 15:48

51.20281, 14.66474

With sign "Zittau".

rating: 4/5, wait: 3 min πŸͺ§, ride: 30 km ↓

―Chris9012, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 15:06

51.26025, 12.70809

To Dresdner Tor

rating: 5/5, wait: 16 min πŸ‘, ride: 80 km β†’

―Chris9012, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 12:40

51.68146, 11.76887

Got a ride to RaststΓ€tte Muldental after 9 minutes.

rating: 4/5, wait: 9 min πŸ‘, ride: 100 km β†˜

―Chris9012, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 12:00

51.70756, 11.82655

With sign "A14".

rating: 4/5, wait: 27 min πŸͺ§, ride: 6 km ↙

―Chris9012, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 11:00

50.83082, 9.57625

Got a truck driver after a few minutes with a sign "A7/A44"

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min πŸͺ§, ride: 241 km β†–

―Tobi, September 2025

52.32047, 14.38365

Not a lot of traffic on a late wednesday afternoon. Asked the drivers getting gas, got a ride on the 10th ish try.

rating: 4/5, wait: 46 min πŸ’¬, ride: 213 km β†’

―alice, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 18:45

52.50011, 13.73615

Traffic mostly local. Held up a sign to Poland and all drivers shrugged that they're not going there. But at 5PM on a wednesday it didn't take long until I got a car towards the border. Gas station employees gave me a piece of cardboard for the sign and were very nice. :)

rating: 4/5, wait: 39 min πŸͺ§, ride: 74 km β†’

―alice, Wed 10 Sep 2025, 16:56

52.30221, 13.01978

There was very little traffic on a Tuesday evening (~1car every 10min) and most of them going west, not south. Probably busier during the day, but we gave up eventually

rating: 3/5, wait: 90 min

―grimple, September 2025

52.88491, 13.70671

Pretty nice restaurant, and lot of cars going to Poland.

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 87 km β†—

―JJ, September 2025

52.31589, 13.49393

Looks alright, but cought us (two) unprepared.

rating: 2/5, wait: 360 min, ride: 81 km ↑

―JJ, September 2025

54.34443, 9.69965

A guy and a girl on a Tuesday morning with an arrow sign pointing to Hamburg/Kiel and a "HH" sign. This spot is good in theory, but there was only local traffic or people that ignored us. We also tried the other side of the road, further north, but it was also bad, even though there were more cars going to Hamburg.

rating: 1/5, wait: 70 min πŸͺ§

―JumpingRabbit, Sat 01 Jan 2000, 11:30

Recent reviews mentioning Germany

52.02112, 5.75358

If you want to go to Germany -> Now it's the time for looking for german license plates

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min πŸ’¬, ride: 246 km β†˜

―Tobi, September 2025

52.07991, 4.97968

Asked around again.
Step by step to Germany

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 67 km β†’

―Tobi, September 2025

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 πŸ‘, ride: 33 km β†’

―Melampsorella, September 2025

43.50558, 1.35226

Eaven though it was dark we got taken by to surfers just by walking up to people who were just going threw the paying station. The spot is a dream and helped us on our voyage from Germany to Portugal. No luck needed!

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 435 km ←

―zare, 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 πŸ’¬, ride: 457 km β†–

―IGMartyOnTheMap, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 20:10

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 πŸ’¬+πŸͺ§, ride: 19 km ↙

―Moonhans, Mon 08 Sep 2025, 11:05

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 β†–

―Tjarko, September 2025

49.75739, 13.61564

Slow but lots of cars to Germany and you can stay conveniently in front of the restaurant and all the drivers have to pass by

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 250 km ↙

―tom, September 2025

50.03358, 14.21388

Some local drivers but some going close to Pilsen or even over the border to Germany

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min, ride: 152 km ←

―tom, Fri 05 Sep 2025, 08:55

42.46617, 18.68102

It’s a very good spot! The ferry goes every 30 min and you can get on for free as a passenger. You can try ask cars before they go on the ferry, but it’s quite busy and people might not be in the headspace for it, since they are focused on following instructions to get on. Rather go on the ferry and ask people there or make a sign and stand there while people get on. I personally looked for german license plates first and asked them (my final goal was germany), but when they didn’t take me in, I pulled out my sign. One of the cars that I asked took me in after all, when they saw that zagreb would be ok as well, they weren’t sure if they’d drive all the way to germany because of their kid. I hitchhiked in the morning around 10 am and a they took me all the way to Zagreb, which is great.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 538 km β†–

―arina, September 2025

49.8614, 14.791

I asked around for a ride to Germany, it worked after sometime.

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min πŸ’¬, ride: 282 km β†–

―igoo, Sun 31 Aug 2025, 13:00

50.14935, 14.49449

Were like yoooo the other guy just waited 20 minutes so this had to be a great spot - naah most people were not going in direction germany. Maybe because it was 6pm on a saturday. Well gave up and took a blablacar for 5€ to dresdenπŸ’€. Also there were like maybe 3 german cars in the time I stood there. It was only people from prague. Not saying there was no traffic, there was good traffic, but not to my direction (Dresden).

rating: 2/5, wait: 180 min πŸͺ§

―Lili1919, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 18:30

48.7481, 9.16567

Waited for 2 hours with some cars being unable to take us because we were with 3 people. Originally the plan was ulm or Munich. The amazing guy that eventually picked us up went to Lindau via ulm.
Lindau is a village on lake Constance, the biggest lake in Germany and we decided to go along.

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min, ride: 173 km ↓

―Proxi, Fri 29 Aug 2025, 15:31

52.2606, 7.84919

Asked around to find someone going to Szczecin, Poland. A bit quiet but most people are going to the east of Germany

rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min πŸ’¬, ride: 490 km β†’

―Siemieon, Fri 29 Aug 2025, 09:50

51.99106, 5.90867

Very good spot to stand at. Cars have the time to stop at the bus stop.
Got a ride to Deventer from here but also a good spot to start from to go to Germany

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min πŸͺ§, ride: 34 km β†—

―Siemieon, August 2025

50.48158, 14.08254

Great place if you're heading to germany

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 78 km ↑

―boris, 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 πŸͺ§, ride: 29 km ←

―Anonymous, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 17:20

48.12319, 16.43834

We were originaly trying to get to vienna or in the direction of germany but we met a guy going to italy who was willing to take us with him so we went for it.
Wouldn't recommend trying to go to vieanna from here. Many people seemed to go to Budapest from here

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min πŸ’¬+πŸͺ§, ride: 559 km ↙

―Anonymous, Tue 19 Aug 2025, 18:40

54.57938, 11.92514

really depends on luck, a lot harder to catch here than the other way around in Rostock. i caught nobody going to the first ferry, waited 2 hours and the second car going to the next one stopped. stand near the crossroads where the harbor employees can't see you ;) best to check ferry schedules and get there about 40min-1hr before departure, a lot of people arrive early. at the gates the driver just types in one more person. needs some patience but possible, keep in mind once you go there you either get on the ferry or drive back 2+ hours to find a different way on to germany.

rating: 4/5, ride: 61 km ↓

―dandelions, August 2025

55.561, 12.22974

awesome spot for going towards Germany form Copenhagen

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min πŸ’¬, ride: 958 km β†˜

―adamascus, August 2025

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