Despite it being dark and me standing with a sign I got picked up all the way to Sofia quickly. The lights are good enough for nighttime hitchhiking, otherwise there’s always the gas station.
Lots of space to pull over, definitely possible to get a ride directly to Bulgaria as many cars have Bulgarian plates. With my BG sign I got taken to Giurgiu, the driver offered to take me to the bridge toll booth but I got off at the Kaufland because I needed food instead.
I suggest waiting at the bus stop after the roundabout as cars are slower. Took me a bit because the first car wanted money but I got a ride out of Bucharest towards Giurgiu
Got dropped there by my last driver which wasn’t ideal but the shoulder was big enough for cars to stop. Got a ride in a Moldova registered Porsche all the way to Bucharest, probably gained a whole hour by the outrageous speeds he was going on the national road.
Things got much better after I moved here from the spot lower down. I suggest having a sign to Brăila, as people won’t pick you up to help you unless they’re going the entire way (my driver was confused at first where I was going and I had to shout Brăila for him to stop).
Hitchhiked right after the Moldovan side of the border crossing which the guards didn’t have any issue with. I had a sign saying Comrat, eventually I was taken to Căușeni. I recommend using a sign saying Căușeni or just thumbing, as cars don’t really stop unless going all the way to your destination.
Stood with a sign saying Tiraspol in Cyrillic (Тирасполь), a guy took me to Bender and then I took the trolley to Tiraspol for 4 PMR rubles (less than 25 euro cents)
Going to Chișinău with an MD sign, the first guys that stopped didn’t want to take me with my french passport but then I got a ride directly to Chișinău
Hitchhiked from here because the spot further up the road didn’t feel safe especially at night. Got a ride to Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe quickly despite the darkness (it’s well lit up)
Went here because the roundabout was being used by local hitchhikers. Took quite a while for some reason but a polish guy on a roadtrip through Romania picked me up for Brașov/Brassó
Doesn’t feel great but it’s really the only way to catch the highway going south, not too much traffic so cars do stop. Probably easier for Sibiu than Deva
I was immediately picked up by a lovely Hungarian lady from Cluj, she offered to house me and took me to the Hungarian celebration of világítás, as well as setting me up with a bunch of people who helped me a lot during my travels across Transylvania
Got dropped off there on my way to Oradea, decided to keep hitchhiking into the city and I was picked up pretty much immediately. Huge runoff so cars can stop easily
Got an incredible ride with an old super nice Romanian guy. Once we arrived in Arad he took me to the town hall for a tour, then he showed me around the city, brought me home for lunch and gave me 200 lei
Maybe I was just lucky but a guy with his mom picked me up very quickly with my sign RO. He did make me cross the border on my own, but then he took me all the way to Timișoara
Probably better to ask but I stood with a sign at the exit. One hour without success, then I took a break at the McDonald’s and a guy picked me up right after to Belgrade, where public transport is free
Probably the best place to get out of Białystok in direction Warsaw. For some reason no one picked me up for an hour and a half, I gave up for the night then came back in the morning and got a ride to a gas station in 20 minutes
Better not to have a sign, it’s very likely the first car will take you to Trześcianka and you can go further from there. Started with a sign but people don’t wanna take you if you’re going too far
I guess making a sign to a town close to the border would work better but I got a ride decently fast with my Sejny sign. Also the bus stop has space to pull over, works better than the gas station unless you’re asking people directly
With a sign saying LT, got a ride to Kaunas within an hour. Definitely stand at the bus stop at the exit instead of the gas station parking, that way you’ll catch all the traffic.
With a sign saying LT, I do tend to agree with other comments that having a sign for a closer destination would work better. Eventually some guy picked me up and drove me to a gas station
Was standing at onramp with a sign for Liège but visibility was not great, I ended up moving to the roundabout before the gas pumps, reverted to my BE sign and I got a ride past Mons in like 5 minutes.
Lots of space to stop with the bus stop but for some reason it’s hard to go south. It would make sense there’s traffic to the village but there are also lots of trucks and foreign cars, so not sure what happened. I ended moving to the southern end of the village
Great spot to Poprad, got picked by a young family. The girl had a labubu, the guy blasted Goral music while smoking windows closed and they also had a child behind
Lots of Czech, Polish and German cars full of tourists going up and not interested in picking you up. With a sign saying PP (Poprad) I could only get a ride to Svit after an hour of waiting
I thought I was gonna have to take the train but somehow got a direct ride to Tatranská Štrba by a guy who wasn’t even going there and just wanted to get karma points.
No clue what went wrong, I had a sign saying PP for Poprad, but no one seemed interested. Eventually got a ride to Ružomberok and took the train from there because it was getting wet and dark.
Great spot, cars aren’t going too fast, there’s space to stop because that’s also the entry to some industrial place. Got offered a ride by motorcycles but didn’t have a helmet, got another one quickly to Banská Štiavnica
Not too much traffic and cars coming from the main road are going quite fast, try to stand somewhere where road signs won’t hide you from them. Not ideal, but basically all traffic to eastern Slovakia from this part of Poland goes through here. Ideally avoid getting dropped here and get a direct ride to Slovakia from further north.
With SK/Prešov sign, got picked up by a fellow hitchhiker going to Białka almost immediately. Be careful about where you get dropped tho, all the traffic going to Slovakia follows the main road but not all spots are safe.
Many cars going slowly and leaving Krakow, lots of space for them to pull over at the bus stop but be careful because you have to stand on a slim patch of grass for drivers to see you. With a sign saying SK I got a ride to Nowy Targ by a guy going to Slovakia but not the right direction.
I believe most traffic is going to the Katowice area, but Krakow is not too hard either. As of august 2025 the hole is still there just before the woods that are close to the exit.
Probably very good for Czechia and Poland but nobody willing to take me to Dresden. Got offered a can of coke by a Turkish truck driver tho, so can’t really complain.
Got a ride fast but it was only to Dresdner Tor gas station rather than Dresden itself. I suggest you only accept a direct ride, because there’s little local traffic from there.
Some space to stop but only cars coming from the right will see you, and only those on one lane will be able to stop. Had a sign saying Leipzig, eventually changed for A4 tankstelle, after which I got a ride to Dresdner Tor very fast.
There’s a bus stop on top of the hill, cars have time to see you. Only had a sign saying Bautzen, I was still picked up to go to Löbau. Not too much traffic but you should easily get a ride to Löbau, and you can take the bus if you really get stuck.
Actually hitched from there twice in two days because I forgot my wallet with my passport when I got into a Palestinian guy’s car. Thankfully he was just going to Germany to do some shopping and drove me back after I was stopped at the border and we cooked dinner together. Next day a Czech truck driver took me to Zittau
Easy to get to, stood at the exit with a sign saying Liberec and was offered a ride to Jablonec by an old couple who themselves had hitchhiked from Prague to Paris in the spring of 1989
Asking around should work, in my case I was pretty unlucky with the weather and full cars. Eventually decided to sign at the on-ramp and was got a ride to Heidelberg within five minutes.
Gonna go against consensus here. Almost all cars are local traffic and the ones that aren’t are usually going to Offenburg. I waited close to three hours with my sign saying Karlsruhe-Heidelberg before a French guy I talked to at the station took me to the autobahn.
Nobody stops there, I saw maybe four cars in total in half an hour. Walking there is possible, but it involves a lot of walking across fields and you have to jump about 2.5m from the bridge that passes over the highway. Luckily got a ride from the second truck driver I asked, I suggest you take literally any ride that will get you out of there.
Maybe I just got lucky but I was immediately picked up with my sign saying Troyes. I believe most traffic is leaving the city and only really to go east, so super easy to go to Troyes from here
Many cars going slowly and space to pull over. I had a sign saying Sens and Troyes, then I was picked up almost immediately after changing my sign to Courtenay
(Towards Poland) On a Friday morning in august, many cars going relatively slow, great visibility and space to stop. Most cars have German plates and are going to Berlin or Leipzig, but Poland is definitely possible.