More traffic than in 2020, but no guarantee of traffic jams like in the days before Corona: around Christmas it should be on the trunk roads in Germany rather stay calm. There will be some exceptions but give.
According to automobile clubs, the heavy Christmas traffic with full streets everywhere will also be absent in 2021 due to the corona pandemic. The ADAC expects appeals to stay at home and a lack of planning security to prevent many people from traveling on the weekend of December 24th to 26th.
The club nevertheless 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 busiest 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 the inner cities could get crowded again, the situation calmed down noticeably from midday. The ADAC expects there will be little activity on the trunk roads on December 25th.
There is a risk of traffic jams here
Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that there will be traffic jams and slowdowns. 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 Kirchheim triangle – 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 – Singing
- A 93 Inntal triangle – Kufstein
- A 95 / B 2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- A 99 Munich bypass
For journeys within Germany, ACE recommends finding out about the different corona regulations in 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 of Germany is available from ACE and ADAC as well as from the Federal Foreign Office.
That’s the situation at the borders
Although trips abroad are easier at Christmas than in 2020, ADAC estimates that traffic jams will rarely occur there either. However, a little more time should be planned for routes in winter sports resorts such as the Tauernautobahn, Brenner and Gotthard Route.
At the German external borders, random checks of evidence of vaccination, convalescence or test status must be expected.
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