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ADAC traffic jam forecast for May 25th to 29th (Ascension Day) / High risk of traffic jams on Wednesday and Sunday afternoon
Motorists must expect many traffic jams on the long Ascension Day weekend. The streets are likely to be significantly busier than on the Ascension Day weekends of the previous two years – the Corona crisis is no longer restricting national travel. Especially the motorways in the metropolitan areas are at times very prone to congestion. At the more than 1000 construction sites, drivers have to be patient anyway.
For many, the weekend begins on Wednesday afternoon, May 25th. The ADAC therefore expects the first traffic jam peak on Wednesday from around 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. In the federal states of Berlin, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia, there is officially no school on the Friday after the public holiday. In other federal states, too, many people are likely to take this bridging day off. Drivers from Hamburg and Saxony-Anhalt are also on the way. The one-week vacation ends in both federal states.
The return wave reaches its peak on Sunday afternoon. It should be relatively quiet on the trunk roads in Germany on Friday.
According to the ADAC, the risk of traffic jams is greatest on the following motorways:
• Trunk roads to and from the coast
• Greater Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich areas
• A 1 Cologne – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck
• A 2 Berlin – Hannover – Dortmund
• A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg
• A 4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Chemnitz – Dresden
• A 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Darmstadt – Karlsruhe
• A 6 Heilbronn – Nürnberg
• A 7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte
• A 7 Hamburg – Flensburg
• A 8 Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
• A 9 Munich – Nuremberg
• A 10 Berliner Ring
• A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
• A 81 Stuttgart – Singen
• A 93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
• A 95 /B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• A99 Munich ring road
Ascension Day is also a public holiday in Austria and Switzerland, which should result in lively excursion traffic when the weather is nice. This will be particularly noticeable on the access roads to the excursion regions in the subordinate road network of the Alpine countries – for example in Austria the Carinthian lakes, the Salzkammergut, Lake Neusiedl and the recreation areas of the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Valais. Slightly longer journey times should also be planned for on the Tauern, Fernpass, Brenner, Rheintal and Gotthard routes. The stays at the borders for entry and exit should not exceed 30 minutes.
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