“2022 Ascension Day Traffic: Where to Expect Jams on German Roads”

Experience has shown that many families use the holiday of Ascension Day for a long weekend with a short break, for example on the North Sea coast, explained the ADAC. “In 2022, the day before Ascension Day was the second busiest day of the year both in NRW and nationwide,” says ADAC traffic expert Roman Suthold.

In the afternoon before the public holiday in 2022, the traffic jams in NRW sometimes totaled almost 400 kilometers. This year, too, most traffic jams are expected on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. when commuters and short vacationers meet.

Traffic jams probably also on Thursday

On the holiday, Thursday, there will probably also be traffic jams when day trippers make their way to local recreation areas when the weather is nice. Then it could also get crowded on federal roads. A lot of traffic is also to be expected on the motorways on Thursday, albeit not as extensively as on Wednesday.

According to the ADAC, in North Rhine-Westphalia the motorways in the greater Cologne area and in the Ruhr area in particular are at risk of congestion at times. Patience is also required on construction sites. With a view to travel destinations on the North Sea and Baltic Sea, the ADAC expects delays on the A1, A2 and A3, among others. On the Cologne ring road (A1/A3/A4), drivers would have to expect traffic jams or slow traffic in sections, it said.

The ADAC sees the greatest risk of congestion for the following routes:

– Trunk roads to and from the coast

– Greater Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich areas

– A1/A3/A4 Cologne Ring

– A1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck

– A2 Oberhausen – Dortmund – Hanover – Berlin

– A3 Emmerich – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg

– A4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden

– A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe

– A6 Heilbronn – Nürnberg

– A7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte

– A7 Hamburg – Flensburg

– A8 Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg – A9 Munich – Nuremberg

– A10 Berliner Ring

– A40 Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Straelen – Venlo

– A43 Wuppertal – Recklinghausen – Munster

– A45 Dortmund – Hagen – Lüdenscheid

– A46 Dusseldorf – Wuppertal

– A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen

– A81 Stuttgart – Singen – A93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein

– A95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen

– A99 Munich ring road