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Hitchhiking from Cologne to Hamburg

About 7 h 01 min of hitchhiking — roughly 528 km in 5 ride(s), including about 1 h 42 min of waiting by the road. These figures come from rides hitchhikers logged on this map, not from an estimate.

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Step by step

  1. Get from Cologne to Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite — 5.0 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 18.7 km (11 min) from Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite to Aral. Expect around 12 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Walk 0.2 km (2 min) from Aral to Raststätte Frechen Süd.
  4. Hitch 52.7 km (32 min) from Raststätte Frechen Süd to Remscheid Ost. Expect around 38 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  5. Hitch 174.1 km (1 h 44 min) from Remscheid Ost to Tecklenburger Land Ost. Expect around 20 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  6. Hitch 110.1 km (1 h 06 min) from Tecklenburger Land Ost to Wildeshausen Süd. Expect around 18 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Hitch 172.5 km (1 h 44 min) from Wildeshausen Süd to Hamburg. Expect around 15 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  8. Get from a hitchhiking spot near Hamburg to Hamburg — 2.2 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“Perfect spot to Bonn. Stand right at the exit of the gas station and got a ride in 10 mins. On a Thursday afternoon around 1pm”
― Anonymous, Fri 2021-09-03 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“A big petrol station, cars are stopping very often. Had a bad experience with getting to Bonn, I guess it depends from good timing. For Bonn you should look for cars with ''BN-...'' number plate, ''K-...'' usually stays in Köln. People often going to Aachen.”
― Anonymous, Sat 2014-07-26 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“perfect spot, catched to Aachen in 15 minutes”
― Anonymous, Tue 2023-07-25 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“Tried going in the direction of Aachen. But had no luck. Maybe it was because it was a sunday. Its probably better to take a bus and a train to the first gas station in the Aachen direction, its a short walk from the train station.”
― stepanfoj, Tue 2025-08-26 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“That was horrible, NOBODY toked us…in the Afternoon”
― Mary, Fri 2025-04-18 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“was told that this is how the cool kids hitch to bonn these days, I've missed hitching from a good roundabout”
― rot, Thu 2026-09-17 · Aral Verteilerkreis Westseite
“Decent spot to get onto the A1 northbound, Lichtendorf for example”
― Anonymous · Raststätte Frechen Süd
“heading south, stood here two hours form 18-20h, to get on the A61 but then got a ride from a belgian spedcyclingfamily al the way to mannheim better to get out at Kerpen”
― Fossilhitchhiker, Sat 2014-08-23 · Raststätte Frechen Süd
“After getting through here a few more times I get the impression that the service station is good towards Frankfurt (A3), okay towards Hannover and Berlin (A1 and A2 later) but very bad towards Erfurt and Dresden (A4).”
― Kriechstrom, Mon 2012-02-06 · Raststätte Frechen Süd
“Maybe it is not the fastest hitchhiking spot, but still you can catch quite easily someone going into the east to the Frankfurt. And as a bonus there is wonderful view to the Köln ;-)”
― Xkomczax, Sun 2011-11-06 · Raststätte Frechen Süd

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Waiting times and distances are averages from community-logged rides. Travel time assumes 100 km/h in a car and 5 km/h walking. They are not guarantees.


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