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1 052.6 km of the A1 have no speed limit
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By direction
South-west540.4 kmchecking…no answer yet
North-east512.2 kmchecking…no answer yet
Counted in both directions, south-west and north-east.
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71% of the A1 has no speed limit
1 052.6 km no speed limit
437.7 km fixed speed limit
123.6 km variable speed limit
Variable limits sit on electronic signs above the road and can apply to stretches with and without a fixed limit.
That is 71% of the 1 490.3 km of carriageway mapped for the A1. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.
Where the A1 runs
clear not clear no answer yet
Those kilometres come in 42 pieces, and this is the order you meet them
The longest is 181.6 km and the shortest 5.0 km.
A stretch runs from the sign that ends every restriction until a new limit follows. It counts as clear when nothing is reported on it: no roadworks, no closure, no traffic jam, no warning.
Driving south-west
20 stretches- towards Gremersdorf
- After exit 11 Oldenburg/Holstein - Süd
- After exit 14 Neustadt/Holstein - Mitte
- Lübeck to Bremen80100120when wet27.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from Seevetal-Hittfeld130at certain times8.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Lübeck to Osnabrück13.6 km variable limit76.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Hamburg to Osnabrück10.8 km variable limit10.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Hamburg to Dortmund130at certain times181.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Köln
- Dortmund to Köln
- towards Koblenz
- Weilerswist-West to Trier6.9 km variable limit39.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Unnamed stretch
- After exit 117 Kelberg
- Gerolstein to Saarbrücken
- Unnamed stretch
- Köln to Saarbrücken
- After Kreuz Saarbrücken
Driving north-east
22 stretches- After exit 146 Riegelsberg
- Saarbrücken to Köln
- After Dreieck Nonnweiler
- towards Hasborn
- Saarbrücken to Gerolstein
- Unnamed stretch
- Trier to Weilerswist-West
- towards Köln6.7 km variable limit13.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Dortmund
- Köln to Dortmund
- After exit 82 Kamener Kreuz
- towards Bremen100120at certain times67.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Dortmund to Hamburg
- towards Hamburg130at certain times5.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Osnabrück to Hamburg
- Osnabrück to Lübeck
- towards Seevetal-Hittfeld130at certain times7.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Bremen to Lübeck80100120when wet26.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 19 Sereetz
- Unnamed stretch
- from Gremersdorf
What is reported on the A1 right now
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Sundays around 12:00 are busiest on this road
The hours when this road was busy last year, measured at the federal counting posts. Busy means more than 900 vehicles an hour per lane. A record of what happened, not a forecast.
Busiest hours by day
- Mo
- 05:00 to 20:00
- Tu
- 06:00 to 20:00
- We
- 06:00 to 20:00
- Th
- 06:00 to 21:00
- Fr
- 06:00 to 21:00
- Sa
- 08:00 to 21:00
- Su
- 09:00 to 21:00
Counted on 33 of 42 stretches. The rest have no counting station close enough and are not represented here.
No speed limit still comes with rules
There is no speed limit on these stretches, but there is a recommended speed. The Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-Verordnung of 1978 sets it at 130 km/h for cars and vehicles up to 3.5 t, and it applies only in favourable road, traffic, visibility and weather conditions. Driving faster than that is not an offence in itself and carries no fine and no points.
After a crash it counts. If an accident caused by someone else would have been avoided at 130 km/h, a driver who was going faster can be held liable for at least 20% of the damage. The recommendation carries no penalty, but it does carry liability.
The duty to match your speed to the conditions never lifts. § 3 Abs. 1 StVO requires speed to be adapted to the road, the traffic, the visibility and the weather, and to be low enough to stop within the stretch of road you can see. Where fog, snow or rain cut visibility below 50 m, 50 km/h is the limit whatever the signs say.
Some stretches on this road carry a limit that applies only at certain hours or in the wet. Those are posted limits rather than a recommendation, and the boards above draw them as the signs that post them, wherever the map data records one.
Sources: Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-Verordnung and § 3 StVO at gesetze-im-internet.de, ADAC on the Richtgeschwindigkeit and contributory liability. This is background, not legal advice.
Speed limit
Posts a limit. It holds until something ends it.
Zeichen 274
End of all restrictions
Ends every posted restriction. This page is about what lies after it.
Zeichen 282
Where the data comes from
Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL),
© Autobahn GmbH.
Traffic counts by Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und
Verkehrswesen (CC BY 4.0).
Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Place names by GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).
Basemap by OpenFreeMap.
maxspeed=none is how OpenStreetMap writes down what Zeichen 282 means for speed.