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A8
616.9 km of the A8 have no speed limit
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South-east308.6 kmchecking…no answer yet
North-west308.3 kmchecking…no answer yet
Counted in both directions, south-east and north-west.
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61% of the A8 has no speed limit
616.9 km no speed limit
387.2 km fixed speed limit
322.5 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 61% of the 1 004.1 km of carriageway mapped for the A8. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.
Where the A8 runs
clear not clear no answer yet
Those kilometres come in 34 pieces, and this is the order you meet them
The longest is 83.9 km and the shortest 5.1 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 south-east
17 stretches- Unnamed stretch
- After exit 10 Dillingen-Süd
- from Luxemburg100at certain times8.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 33 Zweibrücken-Ixheim
- Karlsruhe to München
- Karlsruhe to München0.2 km variable limit14.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards München26.5 km variable limit28.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Stuttgart to München12.8 km variable limit19.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Stuttgart to München
- from Stuttgart120at certain times6.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards München-Zentrum
- München-Zentrum to Salzburg1.6 km variable limit6.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- towards Salzburg13.4 km variable limit13.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Unnamed stretch4.5 km variable limit7.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 106 Bernau am Chiemsee9.2 km variable limit29.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 113 Neukirchen11.7 km variable limit11.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Driving north-west
17 stretches- Unnamed stretch20.3 km variable limit28.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- After exit 103 Rohrdorf8.1 km variable limit21.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from Salzburg9.0 km variable limit9.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- Salzburg to München-Zentrum
- from München-Zentrum
- towards Stuttgart7.0 km variable limit31.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- München to Stuttgart
- München to Stuttgart14.2 km variable limit17.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- from München24.4 km variable limit24.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
- München to Karlsruhe
- München to Karlsruhe
- towards Karlsruhe
- Unnamed stretch
- towards Luxemburg
- After exit 16 Heusweiler
- towards Rehlingen
- After exit 4 Merzig-Wellingen
What is reported on the A8 right now
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Fridays around 16:00 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
- 06:00 to 19:00
- Tu
- 05:00 to 19:00
- We
- 05:00 to 19:00
- Th
- 06:00 to 19:00
- Fr
- 06:00 to 20:00
- Sa
- 07:00 to 19:00
- Su
- 09:00 to 20:00
Counted on 32 of 34 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.