Hitchhiking in Spain

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Hitchhiking to Spain

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Recent reviews in Spain

37.39045, -6.03373

Cars go slow and have plenty of space to stop, but it still took a long time to get a short ride. I had a sign to Huelva, mabye people don’t go that far.

―Anonymous, January 2026

37.27525, -7.01696

Got a ride into Portugal after not too long. Mabye the people who pass through here won’t be going super far into Portugal, but it will get you into the country.

―Anonymous, January 2026

37.39001, -6.00981

Gave up after almost 2 hours with a sign to Huelva. The spot doesn’t seam terrible, but I think people don’t feel safe stopping because there is a lot of traffic.

―Anonymous, January 2026

36.73672, -3.52253

Two cars stopped in two minutes. But boty were local and offered only short rides. I took the second to a potentially better hitching spot.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

40.06147, -4.37119

Shit spot not one person wanted to take us any further then this point, if you want to go to Madrid great other way not that good. Would not recommend

―Anonymous, January 2026

36.80495, -3.51092

Don't stop here. Very few cars, and nobody stopping.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.74787, -3.59308

We (guy + girl) thumbed with an Almuñecar/Nerja sign for a while. Only one car stopped, and they didn't take us, I'm not sure why. Maybe because I was holding a mango. Eventually we got a ride from a friend in a nearby village instead.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.93383, -3.32949

I hitched from here many times to Órgiva. It usually takes 10-30 minutes to get a ride, depending on the time of day. Many are happy to take you, but there's not so much cars on the road.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

37.88539, -1.36035

From the exit of the petrol station, it was probably the third car that stopped - we got super lucky, they were going to Málaga and were happy to drop us off in Nerja.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

38.02796, -1.14415

Mostly local traffic - we had a sign to Librilla. At some point a local helped us out.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

38.02517, -1.14293

We thumbed at the petrol station and the Lidl exit, but seemed like everyone was local traffic. We decided to try the exit of the nearby IKEA instead, with a sign for Librilla, and most was still local traffic - but quite soon a local helped us out.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

37.16806, -3.6091

We stood at the exit of the petrol station with thumbs up, and within a few minutes some locals stopped and took us to Salobreña

―meep, January 2026

38.28791, -0.55494

It was a bit confusing, since I wasn't sure which carparks were for longer stays, drop-offs, rentals, etc. Most seemed to be rentals. But I walked around with my partner and after about 20 minutes, the third car we showed out thumbs to gave us a ride to a service station in Murcia.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.7554, -3.85188

Often when I don't want to wait, I walk from Nerja towards Maro, and just stick my thumb out when I hear a car coming. For some reason, nearly every time I do this, it is at precisely this roundabout that someone (usually a vanlifers) picks me up.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.75971, -3.84136

Many go from here towards Mótril, and there are a lot of vanlifers happy to pick up hitchhikers.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.75767, -3.86221

I hitched from here many times, sometimes alone and sometimes with a friend. Cars go East along the coast, many only to Maro but some further to Motril or even Granada. There's a big space for stopping safely. Locals are used to hitchers around here.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.90135, -3.42837

This is the best spot for going towards Panpaneira/Pitres/other villages deeper in the Sierra Nevada from Órgiva.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.90108, -3.42916

I have hitched from here towards Granada a few times, sometimes alone and sometimes with a friend. Usually the wait is 10-15 minutes.

―mossenmoons, January 2026

36.83529, -4.70422

Got stranded by missed bus connection on the way to El Chorro for climbing. Got picked up by a bmw which was a shock. Used a sign from the bins behind the nearby supermarket.

―Griff, January 2026

28.43956, -16.37361

First the police past me by shouting something at me so when the next official looking vehicle stopped I expected to be told of, but it turned out to be a friendly park ranger. He just had to stop at every parking space to check on stuff. Sign "Teide".

―Chris9012, January 2026

Recent reviews mentioning Spain

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, -0.64674

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

42.4054, 2.87267

Knowing waiting times and average distances in Spain I think I was pretty lucky. Near this spot there is place to set up a tent in woods nearby between gas station and railroad, it's guarded by a fence but there is place where you can easly cross over it without jumping over it

―Anonymous, August 2025

39.48507, -8.15599

After I waited for an hour with a sign "Espanha", a guy approached me and took me after Salamanca. Apparently, many people at the station were willing to take me but thought Spain was too far. Be patient!

―Raphi, August 2025

42.95067, 2.96978

Pretty good spot, got ride to first service station in Spain

―Anonymous, August 2025


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