Hitchhiking from Lyon to Berlin

About 20 h 14 min of hitchhiking — roughly 1463 km in 8 ride(s), including about 4 h 45 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

Get from Lyon to a hitchhiking spot near Lyon — 1.7 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
Hitch 57.5 km (34 min) from Lyon to Aire de Taponas. Expect around 35 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 117.3 km (1 h 10 min) from Aire de Taponas to Aire de Beaune-Merceuil. Expect around 25 min of waiting here. 5 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 252.5 km (2 h 32 min) from Aire de Beaune-Merceuil to Aire de la Porte d’Alsace. Expect around 54 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 192.6 km (1 h 56 min) from Aire de la Porte d’Alsace to Rasthofweg, Bühl. Expect around 34 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 93.5 km (56 min) from Rasthofweg, Bühl to Am Hockenheimring West. Expect around 35 min of waiting here. 5 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 225.4 km (2 h 15 min) from Am Hockenheimring West to Raststätte Kammersteiner Land Süd. Expect around 31 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Hitch 22.9 km (14 min) from Raststätte Kammersteiner Land Süd to Nuremberg. Expect around 38 min of waiting here. 8 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Walk 4.3 km (51 min) from Nuremberg to Raststätte Nürnberg-Feucht Ost.
Hitch 500.9 km (5 h 01 min) from Raststätte Nürnberg-Feucht Ost to Aral. Expect around 34 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
Get from Aral to Berlin — 8.5 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“Direction Paris/Dijon. Walk from Perrache Station to Pont Kitchener. Traffic stops shortly at the traffic lights. Make eye contact with drivers. Finding a ride can take a while but is worth waiting for. Show sign "Limonest" which is only 5 km outside Lyon. Ask driver to put you off at the gas station near Parc Dardilly, which is a real good spot for finding a further ride.”
― Anonymous · Lyon

“No place to stop, If you find a brave/crazy driver it can work, but I advise rather the petrol stations. Direct verbal contact works the best!”
― Anonymous · Lyon

“there is an entrance from a parking lot to the big street going to the freeway. Cars can stop there without hindering the traffic too much. I was lucky and got picked up with some other guy within 15 minutes”
― Anonymous, 2011-07-28 · Lyon

“No space for drivers to stop anymore without hindering the traffic”
― Cigale, 2015-09-08 · Lyon

“I was always lucky on this bridge”
― Anonymous, 2011-05-27 · Lyon

“Pointless trying there, there is no where to stop, it's designed like this, you need to go further south in Lyon, near Oullin, or after where the 2 rivers meet!”
― Anonymous, 2011-09-01 · Lyon

“i tried before and after the traffic lights, asked the drivers, smiled, during 2 hours... a girl passing by told me it usually works pretty easily for her.”
― Mikan, 2015-02-25 · Lyon

“Used a sign with "Villefranche" - clearer than "Péage" - and I got a ride to the Péage anyway. Not to much place to stop but really a lot of people passing”
― Noosk, 2013-08-05 · Lyon

“In May 2013 Insa and Jan hitched from this spot to direction Bordeaux. We weren’t taken to the Péage because the person wasn’t going there, but dropped off at a roundabout on the way which was also good.”
― Jan, 2014-03-14 · Lyon

“There is not a place to curb, but drivers are all stopped when the light is red so I held my sign to the stopped drivers. One slowed and brought me to the peage at Villefranche.”
― Azh, 2013-11-13 · Lyon

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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.