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A7
1 452.7 km of the A7 have no speed limit
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By direction
South741.4 kmchecking…no answer yet
North711.3 kmchecking…no answer yet
Counted in both directions, south and north.
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75% of the A7 has no speed limit
1 452.7 km no speed limit
481.2 km fixed speed limit
149.9 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 75% of the 1 933.9 km of carriageway mapped for the A7. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.
Where the A7 runs
clear not clear no answer yet
Those kilometres come in 50 pieces, and this is the order you meet them
The longest is 171.1 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
27 stretches- Unnamed stretch
- After Kreuz Rendsburg
- Flensburg to Hamburg6.5 km variable limit56.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Hannover130at certain times16.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 37 Horster Dreieck
- After exit 42 Evendorf
- After exit 43 Bispingen
- towards Kassel Hannover
- Hamburg to Kassel33.0 km variable limit61.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from Hamburg Hannover130at certain times6.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Frankfurt a.M.130at certain times15.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Hannover to Kassel
- towards Northeim
- Hamburg to Frankfurt a. M.
- Hamburg to Frankfurt a. M.
- Hamburg to Würzburg
- Unnamed stretch6.6 km variable limit25.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from Homberg (Efze)
- Hünfeld to München
- Unnamed stretch
- Unnamed stretch80100120when wet16.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Kassel to Füssen
- After exit 112 Dinkelsbühl / Fichtenau
- Unnamed stretch
- Würzburg to Füssen7.3 km variable limit142.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Driving north
23 stretches- Füssen to Würzburg80100120when wet171.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Füssen to Kassel
- After Kreuz Schweinfurt/Werneck
- After exit 97 Hammelburg80100120when wet37.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- München to Hünfeld
- towards Homberg (Efze)
- Unnamed stretch
- After exit 82 Melsungen
- Würzburg to Hamburg
- Frankfurt a. M. to Hamburg
- towards Hamburg Hannover
- Frankfurt a. M. to Hamburg
- Kassel to Hannover
- towards Hamburg Hannover130at certain times9.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Kassel to Hamburg22.5 km variable limit31.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Hamburg0.9 km variable limit14.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 50 Schwarmstedt
- After exit 44 Soltau-Ost
- After exit 43 Bispingen
- After exit 41 Egestorf
- Hamburg to Flensburg
- After Dreieck Bordesholm
- towards Flensburg
What is reported on the A7 right now
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Fridays around 13:00 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
- 07:00 to 08:00, 09:00 to 18:00
- Tu
- 07:00 to 08:00, 11:00 to 12:00, 13:00 to 18:00
- We
- 07:00 to 08:00, 11:00 to 18:00
- Th
- 09:00 to 19:00
- Fr
- 09:00 to 19:00
- Sa
- 09:00 to 16:00
- Su
- 10:00 to 20:00
Counted on 30 of 50 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.