Berlin (dpa/tmn)
Even the best vacation comes to an end. Many return travelers are expected on the motorways next weekend – on which days will it be particularly crowded?
The end of the Christmas holidays in many federal states will set off a wave of return travel next weekend (January 6th to 8th), which is likely to increase on Saturday and Sunday in particular. It gets louder Auto Club Europe (ACE) and ADAC but already from Thursday afternoon (January 5th).
Because Friday is a public holiday in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt (Three Kings) and ensures a long weekend here, for which some are likely to take a short vacation. Congestion highlights are:
- Thursday (January 5): According to ACE, from the late afternoon many people in southern Germany will set off by car to the recreation areas in the high altitudes and in the direction of the foothills of the Alps.
- Friday (January 6th): A lot of traffic in all directions is to be expected from midday until the evening hours. In the cities and metropolitan areas, there is already a lot going on in the late morning.
- Saturday (January 7th): Moderate traffic is to be expected from the morning hours. Traffic jams are expected especially on the routes to the Alps and to the winter sports centers. The situation is expected to ease towards evening.
- Sunday (January 8): Due to very heavy return traffic, the risk of traffic jams increases from midday into the evening.
ACE and ADAC consider traffic jams and delays in the greater Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Main, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart areas and on the following routes (often in both directions) to be possible:
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a 1 |
Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg – Lübeck |
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A 2 |
Dortmund – Hanover – Braunschweig – Berlin |
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A 3 |
Arnhem – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Passau |
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A 4 |
Dresden – Erfurt – Kirchheimer Dreieck and Cologne – Aachen |
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A 5 |
Frankfurt/Main – Karlsruhe – Basel |
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A 6 |
Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg |
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A 7 |
Hamburg – Hanover – Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen/Reutte |
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A 8 |
Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg |
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A 9 |
Berlin – Leipzig – Nuremberg – Munich |
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a 10 |
Berlin Ring |
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A 11 |
Berliner Ring – triangle Uckermark – Szczecin |
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A 24 |
Hamburg – Berlin |
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A 61 |
Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen |
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A 81 |
Würzburg – Heilbronn – Stuttgart – Singing |
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A 93 |
Rosenheim-Kiefersfelden |
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A95/B2 |
Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
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A 99 |
Bypass Munich |
In Austria, the Tauern, Inntal and Brenner autobahns, the Fernpass route and the Tyrolean, Salzburg and Vorarlberg federal highways are particularly at risk of congestion.
If you drive in Switzerland, you have to expect longer delays on the Gotthard route, the access roads to the ski areas of Graubünden, the Bernese Oberland, Valais and Central Switzerland.
On the return journey, there can be long waiting times at the borders from Austria to Germany. You can see how long you have to wait at the Walserberg (Salzburg – Bad Reichenhall), Kiefersfelden (Kufstein Süd – Kiefersfelden) and Suben (Ort i. Innkreis – Pocking) crossings on-line at the Austrian infrastructure company Asfinag.
About the situation on the alpine roads informs the ACE online.
