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A3
1 181.2 km of the A3 have no speed limit
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By direction
South-east597.6 kmchecking…no answer yet
North-west583.6 kmchecking…no answer yet
Counted in both directions, south-east and north-west.
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77% of the A3 has no speed limit
1 181.2 km no speed limit
352.6 km fixed speed limit
236.1 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 77% of the 1 533.8 km of carriageway mapped for the A3. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.
Where the A3 runs
clear not clear no answer yet
Those kilometres come in 44 pieces, and this is the order you meet them
The longest is 70.8 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-east
24 stretches- Oberhausen to Köln8.9 km variable limit14.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Oberhausen to Frankfurt am Main9.2 km variable limit25.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 29 Königsforst
- After Kreuz Bonn/Siegburg
- After exit 35 Neustadt/Wied
- After exit 40 Montabaur
- from Köln7.3 km variable limit24.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 46 Wiesbaden / Niedernhausen100120at certain times7.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Köln to München45.6 km variable limit51.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Nürnberg4.9 km variable limit12.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Köln to München1.4 km variable limit41.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards München
- towards Regensburg9.9 km variable limit11.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from Frankfurt am Main
- from Frankfurt am Main
- After exit 90 Altdorf / Burgthann
- Unnamed stretch80100120when wet45.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Nürnberg to Linz100120at certain times70.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 111 Hengersberg
- After exit 116 Passau-Mitte
Driving north-west
20 stretches- Unnamed stretch
- After exit 118 Pocking
- After exit 115 Passau-Nord
- Linz to Nürnberg100120at certain times68.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 98 Sinzing
- After exit 97 Nittendorf
- Unnamed stretch
- Unnamed stretch
- towards Altdorf
- towards Frankfurt am Main24.9 km variable limit65.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Frankfurt am Main9.2 km variable limit42.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- München to Köln6.2 km variable limit66.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- München to Köln
- towards Köln
- Unnamed stretch
- towards Köln7.3 km variable limit21.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Unnamed stretch
- Frankfurt am Main to Oberhausen
- Köln to Oberhausen
What is reported on the A3 right now
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Fridays around 15:00 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 20:00
- Fr
- 06:00 to 21:00
- Sa
- 08:00 to 21:00
- Su
- 10:00 to 21:00
Counted on 34 of 44 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.