Iceland - Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking in Iceland

Hitchhiking to Iceland

Recent reviews in Iceland

64.19481, -21.69875

Great spot

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 14 km ↖

―lothes, September 2025

65.53065, -23.78243

Cars coming from both sides so some traffic in a otherwise isolated place.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min

―Anonymous, July 2025

65.96667, -17.40721

A good spot.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 👍, ride: 55 km ↙

―Anonymous, Fri 07 Jul 2023, 20:12

We waited long. Many tourists probably drove after the attractions, but when we wrote the card Reykjavik we catch in faster than with a thumb

rating: 3/5, wait: 45 min 🪧, ride: 101 km ←

―Anonymous, Tue 09 Aug 2022, 19:02

63.45459, -19.04884

Good spot in direction to RVK and KEF. Here ejst a popular turn to the black beach next to reynisfjara, as if here would beoc iut not ok, then a piece further on is a small aprking on the right side in the direction of RVK.

rating: 4/5, wait: 25 min 👍, ride: 232 km ←

―Anonymous, Sun 03 Mar 2019, 14:56

65.74287, -23.20793

Good. You don't find anything better than this spot.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 22 km ↙

―Anonymous, Thu 07 Jul 2022, 17:03

66.01593, -23.40323

super cool spot

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 40 km ↓

―Anonymous, Thu 07 Jul 2022, 09:03

63.99491, -21.19198

really great spot, not to much space for stay but cars ride slowly and its possible to take you fast

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 157 km ↘

―Anonymous, Tue 02 Jul 2019, 08:00

63.41782, -19.00042

No sense to stay here. middle of traffic. Years ago had more sense, now totally nothing.

rating: 1/5, wait: 53 min 🪧

―Anonymous, Sat 09 Mar 2024, 01:02

64.10282, -21.76529

Good spot. Safety. You can catch cars on both sides. behind the station and right off the road, because there is a large, wide side.

rating: 5/5, wait: 14 min

―Michal, June 2025

63.41788, -18.98769

Best spot in direction to Kirk and the east coast.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍

―Michal, Sun 04 May 2025, 09:54

63.42261, -19.01421

Still working spot. Cars are going uphill and you have a chance to catch something. There's a wide, safe side path.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 👍

―Michal, Tue 24 Sep 2024, 12:02

64.21486, -20.73645

Some space to pull over after a speed bump

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 58 km ←

―Anonymous, March 2025

64.16805, -21.6832

This was my first hitch ever. First time I put out my thumb the first car that passed me kicked me up. He was a semi-pro Icelandic footballer

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min 👍, ride: 50 km ↑

―Kabuice, February 2025

64.92122, -23.24187

The only car to pass me all day passed by, then put it in reverse ~200m to pick me up. Cute old couple going to the hospital.

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 👍, ride: 138 km ↘

―Kabuice, February 2025

65.65613, -20.28438

Not the best spot in the world but the there is quite a lot of cars and they go slowly because of the roundabout. We had to wait for an hour but we got a ride all the way to Reykjavík, our friends got a ride in a few minutes, depends ;)

rating: 4/5, wait: 50 min 👍, ride: 232 km ↙

―Ayazo, November 2024

64.15891, -21.72397

Good spot, a lot of traffic but still some space to pull over.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 24 km ↖

―Anonymous, November 2024

63.67996, -19.77571

Beyond this point the road to thorsmork is impossible without a super jeep, and traffic became very minimal. The handful of superjeeps which did pass all seemed to hate hitchhikers and just laughed. The big all terrain bus service eventually stopped but demanded 60 USD for 3 miles. Maybe I just got a bad day, but this wasn’t ideal and I walked the whole way. (5hrs) It was beautiful, but there are serious rivers to cross and the dust made breathing awful. The rest of Iceland was amazing for hitchiking, so the fact that the superjeeps where so hostile was bluntly weird. Other hitchikers reported not getting a ride, and superjeep hostility, apparently they mostly belong to one company who think we are scum.

Hopefully things will be better for you, but don’t bank on getting picked up, don’t set off unless you can hike the whole way in and out or have $60 for a bus.

rating: 1/5, wait: 360 min 👍, ride: 2 km →

―Pierre, September 2024

65.68771, -21.45194

Locals are helpful, traffic wasn't too busy but after 5 minutes I got a ride

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 13 km ←

―rodem, September 2024

64.30915, -21.91126

Good spot for heading north. The cars are going fast but they see you from a far away and there is plenty space to pull over. You can even ask people around on the parking lot but it’s not that busy.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 32 km ↑

―Ayazo, July 2024

Recent reviews mentioning Iceland

63.67996, -19.77571

64.05121, -21.99632

Single lane road but with a biiiggg hard shoulder. Traffic slowed by bridge good visibility, had a sign saying airport, ride in 5 minutes at 8pm. Thank you Iceland!! 2 minute walk away from the number 1 bus from Iceland centre (~500kr cash, the driver said, "whatever you have"

rating: 5/5, wait: 4 min 👍, ride: 39 km ←

―Lobster, June 2024

64.17607, -21.67637

Each three sides of the roundabout are perfect for thumbing. Northwards and Southwards it will be very quick (usually it was 2-3 minutes tops), but direction Pingvellir and along road 36 it might be a bit slower, as less traffic goes there. From here I managed to hitchhike to Selfoss several times through Pingvellir at 10pm, so everything is possible in Iceland! x) [AdrianB]

―Anonymous, August 2019

64.05031, -22.00338

5 minutes and got a ride to the airport. Hitching in Iceland is so easy!

―K9f100, October 2014

64.10127, -21.75818

Didn't wait at all, the first Icelandic car I waved down stopped :D

Hitching in Iceland in October was unbelievably easy - the first day I got 7 rides east on the Ring Road and didn't wait once over 5 minutes. Icelanders pick up so much and so fast. They told me in the summer it gets really crowded with hitch-hikers and they often don't have space, so I was apparently lucking out on hitching in the fall :) Was a bit chilly and dark to camp out though.

Hitching up to Höfn couldn't be easier, than I had to wait my time, beacuse a car passed maybe every 20 minutes. From Höfn to Egilsstaðir, and up to Akureyri is the hardest part (waited 2 hours once as so little passed by), then from Akureyri it gets really easy again.

―K9f100, October 2014

57.59188, 9.96759

We arrived with the ferry from Iceland. We followed the road and arrived at the point where all the cars of the ferry were going out. In 35 min we had our ride.

―Ire i Heimi, June 2014

57.59188, 9.96759

We arrived with the ferry from Iceland. We followed the road and arrived at the point where all the cars of the ferry were going out. In 35 min we had our ride.

―Anonymous, June 2014