Christmas trips to Germany reach their peak between Thursday afternoon and Friday evening. Because in Baden-Württemberg, BerlinBrandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia the Christmas holidays have already started.
For travellers, this means: stress, traffic jams and delays.
Bremen will follow on Friday, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein. In Bavaria, the journey begins on Friday afternoon, because the school holidays starts at noon.
Where are there already traffic jams on the highways?
On Thursday there will already be delays and flowing traffic on the A1 (Trier and Saarbrücken), on the A5 (Frankfurt and Kassel) and the A3 (Passau e Nuremberg).
Where should travelers expect traffic jams?
If you are traveling by car or coach, you have to expect traffic jams on the most important travel routes in Germany.
According to ADAC, the metropolitan areas of Hamburg, Berlin, ColonyFrankfurt and Monk.
Risk of traffic jams on the following motorways:
- A1 Cologne – Dortmund – Bremen – Hamburg
- A2 Borussia Dortmund – Hanover – Brunswick – Berlin
- A3 Cologne – Frankfurt – Nuremberg – Passau
- A4 Kirchheimer Dreieck – Erfurt – Dresden
- A5 Hattenbacher Dreieck – Karlsruhe
- A6 Heilbronn – Nuremberg
- A7 Hamburg – Hanover and Würzburg – Füssen/Reutte
- A8 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg
- A9 Munich – Nuremberg – Berlin
- A10 Berlin ring
- A24 Hamburg – Berlin
- A61 Mönchengladbach – Koblenz – Ludwigshafen
- A81 Stuttgart – singing
- A93 Inntal Triangle – Kufstein
- A95 /B2 Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- A99 Go around Munich
To travel you in the car or in the den ferbus When traveling abroad, expect traffic jams and delays on the following routes:
- On the Tauern, Inn Valley and Brenner motorways in Austria,
- on the Fernpass route,
- on federal roads in Tyrol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg.
In Switzerland, the
- Gotthard Road,
- the access roads to the ski areas of Graubünden,
- from the Bernese Oberland,
- in Valais and Central Switzerland, longer waiting times are to be expected.
Also at the car loading stations in Furka, Lötschberg and Vereina.
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Where are train delays imminent?
On train lines with intermediate stations in the metropolitan areas of Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Munich and Rostock, travelers should definitely book a seat from Thursday afternoon.
Trains may be busier than usual. At the same time: The more people traveling on trains, the longer it takes to get on and off. This causes delays which you should consider when planning your itinerary.
FOCUS online recommends: It is essential to plan for sufficient transfer time. Find out about alternative train routes in advance if you miss your connection.
And the return journey?
On Boxing Day afternoon, all drivers are threatened by the slowdown in return traffic.
Many travelers then return from Christmas holidays or family visits. However, the traffic volume will not be as heavy as it was at the start of the Christmas weekend the ADAC in a press release.
