Hitchhiking in Spain
Hitchhiking to Spain
Recent reviews in Spain
36.13011, -5.44181
In January I tried it with a sign to Malaga and got a lift with one of the first cars out of the ferry.
The guy who picked me up told me, that even the people at the passport checkpoint noticed me and where asking him, if he could take me further.
I think it's pretty good spot to catch a long ride. I got a lift almost to murcia
―Anonymous, March 2026
37.35038, -5.9769
I've been waiting there 2 times, one evening after 5 pm and the other morning starting around 10 am without success.
I was asking all people getting fuel, but most people are just living around the neighborhood. And indeed it is a very crowded place, because people around getting there postboxes from there.
Some few were willing to take me, but were heading north - and I wanted to go south.
I didn't try it with a sign, but there is no good space for cars to stop at the road.
I wouldn't try again there - or maybe it just takes much longer waiting time.
I went to the roundabout at the "centro comercial Lagoh" and I got a lift within 15 minutes to Jerez
―Anonymous, March 2026
37.34133, -5.9852
I was unshure in the beginning, because it's a pretty crowded roundabout, but it took me around 15 min, (on a weekday around 3 pm) and I got a ride towards Jerez (was in january though)
―Anonymous, March 2026
41.89353, 2.85838
Took a total of 3 hrs but only spent 25 minutes in this spot. Very exposed but high traffic and trees for shade.
―theosullivan, March 2026
42.40516, 2.87254
This is a good spot and me and my LoVE with our dog were suprised with tha car that took us. I was playing some music on my viola so maybe that helped?! Who knows…;)
―NTKtriohitch, March 2026
36.78111, -6.04271
Arrived in the Evening around 6.30 or 7 pm. Was very full, but I decided to sleep in a tent nearby. In the morning it was very empty, only every few minutes a car came. The only truck that stayed there over night at least brought me to the next service station, which was way more alive.
―Friedolin, March 2026
36.52531, -5.98346
At first I tried to talk to people, which isn't very easy since the two restaurants and the gas station are all like 100m apart. I wasn't succesful with that, even though the people there where very very friendly. But I think most are lokal and don't go far from there. When the restaurants closed at 5.30 and 6 pm I went to the entry at the roundabout, stood there for like 20-30 Minutes and got a lift a bit further than Jerez.
―Friedolin, March 2026
37.16551, -4.16977
Tried to get to Sevilla, but that seemed to be hard. Especially to Malaga was easier. At the End I took a ride near Malaga. You should probably talk to the people there, even though it's a bit annoying to always walk between the gas station and the hotel/restaurant since they are more than 100m apart
―Friedolin, March 2026
37.19775, -3.63576
Tried to get into the direction of Sevilla from there. Not a perfect spot, at the end I went to the gas station and talked to people. Tourists then took me near Loja
―Friedolin, March 2026
39.42256, -0.37469
Tried to go south on the highway, didn't work for me
―Friedolin, March 2026
39.42348, -0.37579
Tried to go south on the highway, didn't work for me
―Friedolin, March 2026
39.44546, -0.36918
Didn't work for me, after an hour of waiting I went to another place
―Friedolin, March 2026
39.47517, -0.58888
Tried to go west but it didn't work. Eventually I tried to get into Valencia which worked ok.
―Friedolin, March 2026
42.42294, 1.92231
The spot is alright, with a lot of space for cars to stop. Iwas a bit afraid for my first hitchhiking experience in Spain as I read that it would be significantly more difficult than in France. I was on my way to a village close to Girona which is a bit of an awkward way from Puigcerda so I wrote Ripoll and Vic on my cardboard. Eventually someone stopped and said he would take me to the place where the road to Ripoll starts. After talking a bit it turned out he would be going all the way to Girona in the afternoon after having lunch with his wife. I had to kill a few hours but was very lucky with my direct ride.
―Olivierh, March 2026
37.02762, -4.57554
Found a ride quickly to the train station of Santa Ana
―Anonymous, March 2026
38.20366, -3.42773
Test
―Anonymous, March 2026
41.6075, 0.61797
Traffic light point, but terrible. It's a spot that generates no trust on drivers. Everyone was looking funny at me.
I just wanted a ride to the first highway station, but I also had a sign saying Zaragoza, just in case. Switched back and forth between using the sign and just trying to get drivers to open their windows.
―Cabrita4, February 2026
42.4054, 2.87267
We were trying to go toward Zaragoza. Took us a while to realize that wasn't going to happen. Most people are going either to France or Barcelona. Around lunchtime we decided to accept a ride to Barcelona and ask a drop off before the highway exit. But by that time there were almost no cars coming through, and the ones that did weren't going to Barcelona.
One truck driver accepted to drive one person, but we were two and wanted to stick together. In the end we took a bus to Figueres and then a train to Barcelona.
―Cabrita4, February 2026
42.40527, -3.54891
Got a ride to Portugal ! And some people were ready to take me to Madrid. Good spot
―jurichezzbmx, February 2026
41.59931, 0.59799
I was trying to get to Zaragoza and figured this would be the most direct road, but a driver told me that everyone would take the AP-2 from LL-11, not this national road.
Either way, this gas station only has 2 pumps, it's really small.
I don't know very well how to rate it, but it seems like a medium-bad spot.
―cab4, February 2026
Recent reviews mentioning Spain
42.42294, 1.92231
The spot is alright, with a lot of space for cars to stop. Iwas a bit afraid for my first hitchhiking experience in Spain as I read that it would be significantly more difficult than in France. I was on my way to a village close to Girona which is a bit of an awkward way from Puigcerda so I wrote Ripoll and Vic on my cardboard. Eventually someone stopped and said he would take me to the place where the road to Ripoll starts. After talking a bit it turned out he would be going all the way to Girona in the afternoon after having lunch with his wife. I had to kill a few hours but was very lucky with my direct ride.
―Olivierh, March 2026
46.49607, 5.31124
Glad to see other comments replicate my experience.
The truck driver who dropped us off here said there were going to be a lot of spanish trucks that could take us directly to Spain. We had our hopes up in the beginning, but we slowly lost hope...
Basically, this is a good spot to go to Geneve. After some hours, we were just trying to go past Lyon into the A6 or A7 highway. Took a long time, but in the end we found a truck driver from Spain who, after a little bit of conversation, became willing to take both of us (a couple) all the way across the border. Lucky! I don't know what I would have done otherwise.
―Cabrita4, February 2026
39.25565, -2.5829
the staff is friendly and helpful. the spot was empty during the night, as pretty much all in spain. and mind you it was during the apagón. it works for several directions, namely murcia, valencia, one trucker even said he was going to badajoz. eventually a romanian van driver took me all the way to porta de barcelona, even a bit out of his way. thanks, mihail
―andrej, February 2026
43.93791, -1.09202
Really good spot to reach Spain, Bayonne
―Mano75, January 2026
44.74467, -0.70596
Good spot to reach Pays Basque (Bayone) Spain or Dax
―Mano75, January 2026
41.35467, 2.06231
Took about 30 mins, decent spot for cars to stop - but its Spain so getting a ride isnt the easiest, but it’ll come.
―SunnySupertramp, December 2025
42.42537, 3.16093
Not a lot of space for the cars to stop and there aren't too many going deeper into Spain. Gpt lucky and were picked up by the bus
―jokndm, October 2025
42.5253, 3.09103
The car are going slow and there's space to stop. Good for going into the direction to Spain but probably hard to get in to Spain.
―jokndm, October 2025
42.53177, 3.05614
Good to go to Collioure, there's space to stop and cars aren't going too fast. The closer to Spain you want to get the hardwr it probably is.
―jokndm, October 2025
42.40931, 1.13058
First Car picked us up, enough space to stop, not really representative for spain though
―Anonymous, October 2025
43.86414, 3.31309
Many people are here in summer taking a rest. But I wanted to go to Spain and didn't found a good ride for a long time, there were all driving by (I stood at the echt of the resting area.) Bring sun protection and patience.
―Anonymous, September 2025
48.82018, 2.3245
Wanted to go South towards Spain, had a sign with A6 / A10 Sud de la France but had to wait pretty long until I found a proper ride. There's a traffic light and also some place to stop for cars, but most of the people just drove by without stopping, it was hard since many are not going out of town. Still, after 3h I got lucky and found a man that took me 4 hours South and I had no stress, so it was fine :)
―Anonymous, September 2025
43.27908, -1.98256
Good spot for everywhere in spain😅
I took a bus in san sebastian(31) and walked 20 min(is about 1/1.30 hour only walking). At the end of the road there is a little road between the bushes. Good spot
―Giulio, September 2025
43.40121, -1.63777
I was trying the spot for the highway(for spain) but there were not many cars and not so much space for stop. We were 2, one was trying for the highway and me for the normal road. My stop worked, a guy dropped us in the spanish border.
―Giulio, September 2025
44.74402, -0.70609
Good spot for san sebastian or beyonne or spain.
―Giulio, September 2025
44.77858, -0.64675
It worked but you need to ne patience. There were some blackberry to. The guy dropped me in the first gas station, good spot for san sebastian or spain.
―Giulio, September 2025
40.89685, -2.75984
not so many cars leaving here to Zaragoza. We spent night here because only one girl stopped and was scared to take 2 guys. Next day we started hitchhiking from 7:30 and finally at 12:15 one man from Africa who lives in Spain took us to Zaragoza. 1 km from here is the roundabout that goes to zaragoza but police told us if they saw us again we will pay. But one police woman said 20 minutes ago that we can autostop there.
―SimonNiko, August 2025
43.71307, 4.13279
The pot is perfect, i was aiming italy so it takes long searching for italian cars, but if you want to go in france is super easy. Is possible also for germany and spain or switzerland and netherlans(in summer of course).
There is a MC, the station is open 24, i slept there because was raining.
There are 2 parking spot.
―Giulio, August 2025
48.63549, 2.14949
I waited about 5 minutes at the exit of the station, with a sign saying "A10", and got a lift to Chatellereault (near Poitiers). A few cars even stopped before that but were not able to help me. Many people heading to the south, and a lot of truckers are resting. Go ahead and ask them, many of them go to Spain ! 👍
―Oxyd23, August 2025
36.61289, -4.52903
My shortest waiting time for a ride in Spain
―Anonymous, August 2025