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A2

759.0 km of the A2 have no speed limit

 

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East337.1 kmchecking…no answer yet

West421.9 kmchecking…no answer yet

17stretches
clear end to end
reports on a stretch
longest clear stretch

Counted in both directions, east and west.

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80% of the A2 has no speed limit

759.0 km no speed limit

190.4 km fixed speed limit

366.2 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 80% of the 949.4 km of carriageway mapped for the A2. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.

Where the A2 runs

clear not clear no answer yet

The pale band is the whole road. One line per direction marks the stretches without a speed limit.

Those kilometres come in 17 pieces, and this is the order you meet them

The longest is 123.7 km and the shortest 10.1 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 east

9 stretches

Driving west

8 stretches

What is reported on the A2 right now

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    When this road is usually busy

    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
    06:00 to 19:00
    Tu
    06:00 to 19:00
    We
    06:00 to 19:00
    Th
    06:00 to 19:00
    Fr
    07:00 to 20:00
    Sa
    09:00 to 19:00
    Su
    11:00 to 20:00

    Counted on 16 of 17 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.

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    Speed limit

    Posts a limit. It holds until something ends it.

    Zeichen 274

    Zeichen 282, a white disc with five diagonal slashes

    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.