Hitchhiking in Spain
Hitchhiking to Spain
Recent reviews in Spain
41.47026, -2.52663
After walking a bit without any succes, i stopped there and someone stopped almost immediately.
―Duoma, November 2025
41.74619, -2.47787
Not much people pass there and they couldn't take me far
―Duoma, November 2025
39.4751, -0.58913
On visait Madrid , on s'est mis ici pour l'emplacement qui semblait convenir et selon les quelques avis positifs.
Assez chaotique, 1 voiture s'est arrêtée mais allait à 20 km plus loin.
En soit c'est un bon lieu pour attendre le miracle : toilettes et points d'eau, ravito en bouffe ( bon 4 balles le paquet de Pringles classique...) , espace pour dormir.
On a scotché 2 panneaux : "Madrid" et "Portugal" ( sait-on jamais !) mais ça n'a po marché.
On était contraint par les horaires , donc youplaboum on se fait un panneau "Valencia" , et en 10 minutes nous voilà revenu à notre point de départ...
C'est peut être un bon spot pour aller à Madrid puisque c'est "qu'à" 3h45 de route , mais bon c'est pas en 1 fois qu'on peut juger l'emplacement
―Rouxi, October 2025
39.46973, -0.41309
Franchement n'ayez pas trop d'espoir sur cet endroit...
Les voitures vont vite (sauf quand le feu est rouge bien sûr) et ont pas le temps de vous voir / s'arrêter.
On était avec un panneau "area de servico" mais ça n'a pas du tout marché.
On a fini par prendre le bus l430a pour nous déposer à l'aire de service plus loin sur l'autoroute, dont l'expérience ne fut pas meilleure...
―Rouxi, October 2025
42.3671, 2.45597
Endroit bien paumé, bien beau aussi !
Très très peu de voitures , on était un mardi milieu d'après-midi.
3 espagnols locaux qui faisaient une balade autour nous ont directement pris, mais très pessimiste quant à notre projet d'autostop en Espagne.
Endroit très chouette mais demande peut-être de la patience...
―Rouxi, October 2025
41.46839, 1.97707
On s'est mis ici suite aux différents avis de la carte, et bah on aura pas eu autant de chance...
On s'est fait refouler par tous les chauffeurs routiers de la station , il y en a beaucoup et dispersés partout sur l'aire. La plupart allaient à Tarragone , Valencia ou pas très loin de Barcelone.
Les voitures n'allaient pas très loin non plus. On est tombés sur un mec qui allait à Gibraltar mais qui n'avait pas de places dans son camping-car , la poisse...
Globalement on alternait tour des camions / tour des voitures / pouce à la sortie de l'aire. Un russe s'est arrêté et nous a emmené d'une seule traite à Valencia.
On visait Saragosse , Madrid ou Burgos; le spot semble pas trop mal pour bouger autour de Barcelone, mais c'est possible de tomber sur la pépite qui peut vous emmener loin !
5h30 d'attente.
―Rouxi, October 2025
42.30687, 2.361
A cet endroit il y a un petit emplacement pour que les voitures s'arrêtent. On est visibles depuis le rond-point, bien se mettre sur le côté pour que les voitures voient le petit espace.
2 voitures en 15 minutes. On nous a amenés à Vic
―Rouxi, October 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
41.7395, 1.82239
After 90 minutes older lady took us 5 minutes ride for better autostop place.
―Perla, October 2025
41.56139, 1.9683
After 2 hours we changed location because noone stopped, but local ladies walking around reccomended us to take a train from Viladecavalls to Manresa for free, because they don't check the tickets.
―Perla, October 2025
37.65929, -1.70856
Sortie du rond point - entrée de l’autoroute vers l’ouest. Les gens peuvent s’arrêter à l’entrée du Lidl. on m’a emmené à Puerto Lumbreras
―Baude, October 2025
36.87499, -2.33822
Grosse station service où il est facile de se poster à la sortie du parking. Il y a des voitures et des camions. Ça n’a pas bien marché car je n’avais pas de panneau en arrivant, mais le caissier très gentil m’a donné un carton.
―Baude, October 2025
36.83254, -2.50337
Bon spot, deux chauffeurs en trente minutes. J’ai accepté un trajet jusqu’à El Ejido mais j’aurais peut-être pu trouver quelqu’un qui allait plus loin. Possible de camper dans le désert derrière si besoin (attention aux sangliers paraît-il).
Attention pas d’eau ni rien d’autre à proximité.
―Baude, October 2025
40.54826, -3.26992
Most spanish i talked to did not go to Zaragoza. After some time i got a ride with a german women who was going to the french pyrenees. I went with her to Zaragoza to continue to Barcelona. It was around 9 am. I would recommend this spot when going out of Madrid, since other Spots of hitchhiking out of Madrid didn‘t go well. It‘s a gas station + restaurant and there is fairly good traffic.
―Pasch, October 2025
41.46719, 1.97847
Great spot, reviews were right ! We asked 3 cars and one of them got us directly to Valencia! We were 2
―horty, October 2025
41.49654, 2.1906
Sûrement un bon spot pour aller à Barcelone. Mais pas du to it pour aller à Valencia. On m’a posé ici en me disant que c’était un bon départ pour Valence, puis en regardant la carte je me rends compte que pas du tout. Heureusement un espagnol s’est arrêté pour me
Dire que je n’allais jamais trouver une voiture pour Valencia, mais qu’il allait me poser de l’autre côté de la ville, ou ça a très bien marché !
―Baude, October 2025
38.93787, -6.36472
we were coming from south (Tarifa, Sevilla), and used this spot to change west.
found a ride to Badajoz
if you need to camp over night, seems to be a chilled olive grove behind the charging station for electric cars.
―kiko, October 2025
36.78111, -6.04271
we got here late in the evening and decided to camp by the lake behind the gas station, and hitch in the morning, towards Portugal. found a ride do Merida. good place, there was a lot of traffic in this highway
―kiko, October 2025
36.03721, -5.62015
we got a ride here from Tarifa, and was a great sunset place to find a ride to sevilla (we chose a gas station 1h south of sevilla, to hitch onwards to Portugal). possible both to thumb and to wait for cars to stop for gas.
―kiko, October 2025
42.4054, 2.87267
We asked people at the gas station and after asking 8 or 9 cars, one took us to near Barcelona ! Great
―horty, October 2025
Recent reviews mentioning Spain
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
39.47357, -1.01192
Maybe the worst gas station in Spain, or maybe it is because people from Spain do not understand hitchhiking.. First day we stood there for like two hours, it was evening. And police officers told to us to get out of there, because hitchiking on autovias is ilegal. So we get out and build up a tent on a field next to highway, pretty nice spot for camping. The second day we decide to hitchhike on the roundbout with a sign to Madrid, we stood there for maybe six hours? After that time some guy took us to a gas station in that direction, maybe 20 kilometers. We found out that, police officers were waiting for us on the previous spot, so be carefull. P. S. Do not believe people from Spain, if they told you they are going to drop you off on a busy gas station..
―Anonymous, August 2025
39.43642, -0.76838
Stood there with a sign to Madrid, very low traffic in that direction. After some time a guy took us.
He told us he would drop us off at a busy gas station, it was a lie and in fact the worst gas station in Spain. We werent lucky this time, but I am sure he thought it was a good idea. Boy and girl, late afternoon, weekday
―Anonymous, August 2025
42.45565, -5.51866
In summer crowded place with a lot of ppl heading west of Spain or Portugal (mainly Porto). Out of the season maybe not that good place. After few minutes I found a couple who give me a lift to Guimaraes.
―Filip, August 2025