If you want to take a short trip on the long Ascension Day weekend, you should plan a little more time. Because there is a risk of traffic jams on the freeways.
Short vacationers have to reckon with many traffic jams on the long Ascension Day weekend. Heavy travel and excursion traffic as well as more than 1,200 construction sites require a lot of patience. Mainly affected are the conurbation motorways, the roads to the local recreation areas, to the coast and in the mountains.
Slow traffic on the highways – ADAC expects the first peak traffic jams on Wednesday
For many, the weekend begins on Wednesday afternoon, the day before the national holiday of Ascension Day. 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, the day after the public holiday is officially no school. Holidaymakers 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 (May 21) until the evening. It should be relatively quiet on the trunk roads on Friday and Saturday (May 20). In 2022, the day before Ascension Day was the second busiest day of the year.
Traffic jam warning for Father’s Day and the weekend: It’s getting crowded on the Autobahn here
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
- A1 Cologne – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck
- A2 Berlin – Hannover – Dortmund
- A3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg
- A4 Kirchheimer Distiler – Fleek – Chemnitz – Driesen
- 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
- A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
- A81 Stuttgart – Singen
- A93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
- A95 /B2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- A99 ring road Munich
Ascension Day is also a public holiday in Austria and Switzerland, which could trigger lively excursion traffic when the weather is nice. Experts give a first glimpse of what the weather will be like on Father’s Day and Pentecost.
This should 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. Incidentally, the ADAC explains whether it is permitted to leave the car in traffic jams.
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