According to estimates by automobile clubs, there will be no large Christmas traffic with full streets everywhere due to the corona pandemic. Appeals to stay at home and a lack of planning security should deter many people from traveling on the weekend of December 24th to 26th, the ADAC expects.
The club still expects a higher volume of traffic than in 2020, when a Germany-wide partial lockdown severely restricted private travel. The ADAC and the Auto Club Europa (ACE) expect the most traffic on Wednesday, December 22nd and Thursday, December 23rd, when the school holidays begin in almost all federal states.
ADAC and ACE expect a high volume of traffic in the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt / Main and Munich, among others. On Christmas Eve, when it could get full again in the city centers, the situation calmed down noticeably from noon. Even on December 25, there will be little going on on the highways, the ADAC expects.
Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that there will be traffic jams and slow traffic. The ADAC names the routes with the highest risk:
A 1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg A 2 Dortmund – Hanover – Braunschweig – Berlin A 3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau A 4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Dresden A 5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Karlsruhe A 6 Heilbronn – Nuremberg A 7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen / Reutte A 8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg A 9 Munich – Nuremberg A 24 Hamburg – Berlin A 45 Gießen – Hagen (in both directions between Lüdenscheid and Lüdenscheid-Nord) A 61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen A 81 Stuttgart – Singen A 93 Inntaldreieck – Kufstein A 95 / B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen A 99 Munich bypass
For trips within Germany, the ACE recommends informing yourself about the different corona regulations of the respective federal states before departure. When traveling abroad, it is essential to pay attention to the existing travel restrictions and quarantine rules. Information on the current requirements inside and outside Germany is available from ACE and ADAC as well as from the Federal Foreign Office.
Relaxed traffic situation abroad
Although trips abroad are easier at Christmas than in 2020, the ADAC estimates that there will be less traffic jams there too. Nevertheless, a little more time should be planned for routes in winter sports locations such as the Tauern Autobahn, Brenner and Gotthard Route.
Random checks of evidence of vaccination, convalescence or test status must be expected at the German external borders.
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