799.0 km of the A9 have no speed limit

Name: A9: stretches without a speed limit
Creator: Freibahn
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

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North390.9 kmchecking…no answer yet

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75% of the A9 has no speed limit

799.0 km no speed limit

264.0 km fixed speed limit

159.8 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 1 063.0 km of carriageway mapped for the A9. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.

Where the A9 runs

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

Those kilometres come in 30 pieces, and this is the order you meet them

The longest is 78.3 km and the shortest 5.8 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

15 stretches

Berlin to Münchensouthbound · 3 lanes
80100when wet7.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin Potsdam to Münchensouth-westbound · 3 lanes
23.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin Potsdam to Münchensouth-westbound · 3 lanes
28.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Münchensouthbound · 3 lanes
80100120when wet29.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin to Münchensouthbound · 3 lanes
100120when wet12.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin to Münchensouth-westbound · 3 to 4 lanes
80100120when wet42.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 25a Hermsdorf-Südsouthbound · 3 lanes
12.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 26 Triptissouthbound · 3 lanes
35.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin to Münchensouthbound · 2 to 4 lanes
9.3 km variable limit40.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 41 Bayreuth-Nordsouth-westbound · 3 lanes
16.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Unnamed stretchsouth-westbound · 3 lanes
22.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
from Berlinsouth-westbound · 3 lanes
8.7 km variable limit10.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After Kreuz Nürnberg-Ostsouthbound · 3 lanes
80when wet2.6 km variable limit37.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 58 Altmühltal/Eichstättsouth-eastbound · 3 lanes
80100when wet10.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Berlin to Münchensouthbound · 3 to 5 lanes
100120at certain times80when wet47.9 km variable limit78.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map

Driving north

15 stretches

München to Berlinnorthbound · 3 to 5 lanes
100120at certain times80100120when wet44.5 km variable limit67.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Berlinnorthbound · 3 lanes
100at certain times20.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 57 Gredingnorthbound · 3 lanes
32.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Berlinnorth-eastbound · 2 to 5 lanes
16.0 km variable limit21.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Unnamed stretchnorthbound · 3 lanes
13.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Unnamed stretchnorthbound · 3 lanes
5.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlinnorthbound · 3 to 4 lanes
80100when wet5.5 km variable limit37.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 29 Bad Lobensteinnorthbound · 3 lanes
13.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 28 Schleiznorthbound · 3 lanes
21.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 26 Triptisnorthbound · 3 lanes
120when wet7.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlinnorth-eastbound · 3 lanes
43.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlinnorthbound · 3 lanes
100120when wet18.2 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlin Potsdamnorth-eastbound · 3 lanes
80100120when wet54.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlin Potsdamnorth-eastbound · 3 lanes
80100when wet26.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
München to Berlinnorthbound · 3 lanes
80when wet8.3 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map

What is reported on the A9 right now

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Sundays around 14:00 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: 06:00 to 19:00
We: 06:00 to 19:00
Th: 06:00 to 19:00
Fr: 06:00 to 19:00
Sa: 08:00 to 19:00
Su: 09:00 to 20:00

Counted on 26 of 30 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.