Be Prepared: Tips for Avoiding Traffic Jams on Long Pentecost Weekend in Germany

Bad Honnef – On the long Pentecost weekend, there is a risk of considerable traffic jams on the trunk roads. Drivers in almost all federal states are on the road, be it for a long Pentecost weekend, such as in Berlin, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, where Tuesday (May 30th) is still school-free, or for a vacation: Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria start with two weeks, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland with one and a half or one week vacation.

The greatest risk of traffic jams is on Friday afternoon (May 26), Saturday morning (May 27) and Whit Monday (May 29). In 2022, the Friday before Pentecost was the third busiest day of the year with traffic jams.

Here – according to ADAC Mittelrhein – the motorways with the greatest potential for traffic jams:

– 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 Düsseldorf – Wuppertal
– A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
– A81 Stuttgart – Singing
– A93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
– A95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
– A99 Munich ring road

When the weather is nice, delays due to day trippers are also possible on Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the arterial roads of the cities to the local recreation areas. The return traffic then ensures full motorways on Monday afternoon.

Leaving the freeway to drive on country roads rarely yields an advantage. The alternative routes are often congested quickly. As a rule, the mobility club advises that it only makes sense to leave the motorway if there are traffic jams of more than 10 kilometers in length or if there is a complete closure.

The Whitsun travel wave also covers the classic international routes Tauern, Inntal, Rheintal, and Brennerautobahn as well as the Gotthard route. But you also need a lot of patience on the long-distance roads to the Croatian coasts. Holiday returnees could be stuck in traffic, especially when entering Germany at the Bavarian crossings Suben (A3), Walserberg (A8) and Kiefersfelden (A93) because of border controls.

More tips:

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As soon as traffic comes to a standstill, an emergency lane must be formed. Anyone driving in the left lane turns left, drivers in all other lanes turn right. Otherwise there is a risk of high fines, driving bans and points in Flensburg.

Motorists can find up-to-date information about the construction site situation in RLP and throughout Germany at https://www.adac.de/reise_freizeit/verkehr/baustellen

Drivers can call up a detailed traffic jam preview with information on the exact time and day using the ADAC route planner (“Real-time traffic situation” button). The planned departure time can be set with the time controller. The traffic forecast for the desired route can be obtained using the zoom function on the map.

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