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Hitchhiking from Montpellier to London

About 29 h 03 min of hitchhiking — roughly 1857 km in 12 ride(s), including about 8 h 49 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 Montpellier to Total — 2.9 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 28.4 km (17 min) from Total to Aire d'Ambrussum Sud. Expect around 18 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Hitch 255.6 km (2 h 33 min) from Aire d'Ambrussum Sud to Aire de Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Est. Expect around 39 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  4. Hitch 596.8 km (5 h 58 min) from Aire de Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Est to Chilly-Mazarin. Expect around 44 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  5. Walk 4.7 km (56 min) from Chilly-Mazarin to 48.72136, 2.25623.
  6. Hitch 16.5 km (10 min) from 48.72136, 2.25623 to Aire de Limours - Briis-sous-Forges. Expect around 15 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Hitch 81.0 km (49 min) from Aire de Limours - Briis-sous-Forges to Aire de Vémars-Est. Expect around 48 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  8. Hitch 317.2 km (3 h 10 min) from Aire de Vémars-Est to Rue des Deux Gares - Tweestationsstraat, Anderlecht. Expect around 27 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  9. Walk 3.3 km (40 min) from Rue des Deux Gares - Tweestationsstraat, Anderlecht to Brussels.
  10. Hitch 9.2 km (6 min) from Brussels to Dienstenzone Groot Bijgaarden-Noord. Expect around 15 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  11. Hitch 39.5 km (24 min) from Dienstenzone Groot Bijgaarden-Noord to Noordelijke Dienstenzone Wetteren. Expect around 14 min of waiting here. 5 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  12. Hitch 74.0 km (44 min) from Noordelijke Dienstenzone Wetteren to Dienstenzone Jabbeke. Expect around 8 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  13. Walk 0.2 km (3 min) from a hitchhiking spot near Dienstenzone Jabbeke to Dienstenzone Jabbeke.
  14. Hitch 239.9 km (2 h 24 min) from Dienstenzone Jabbeke to RoadChef Maidstone Services. Expect around 2 h 29 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  15. Hitch 69.1 km (42 min) from RoadChef Maidstone Services to Snargate Street, Dover. Expect around 1 h 23 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  16. Hitch 130.0 km (1 h 18 min) from Snargate Street, Dover to Texaco. Expect around 1 h 09 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  17. Get from Texaco to London — 12.2 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“Good spot for going outside of city. From center is tram nr 1 to big mall near this petrol. Few cars stop but for seaside. I catched for Nîmes good ride after 20 m.”
― Pierre, Sat 2025-08-23 · Total
“Didn't got a ride for 3 hours. But Spot is okay. A lot of cars stopped”
― ThomasNCG, Thu 2026-04-09 · Total
“Lots of local cars but still i don't know a better place to leave the city towards Nîmes or further.”
― mimimimi, Fri 2025-11-07 · Total
“I arrived here in late evening and tried to get a ride during the night for a while before camping here. Next morning it still took me two hours until someone agreed to take me towards Lyon. Much traffic to Marseille.”
― LukasR, Fri 2015-06-12 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“we waited a little, but than got a ride directly to Toulon.”
― Nyufff, Wed 2014-05-07 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“We got there by evening so we tried our luck and decieded later on to go for a sleep and try again in the morning. Well the next morning I got lucky some truck driver took me to the next service are. It was quite a bit hard to get a ride because there we're 3 other fellow hitch hikers :) so that's the reason I decided to make it to just the next service area.”
― Phoeni.x ger, Thu 2014-07-31 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“If you're travelling towards south-eastern France or Italy, the "Aire d'Ambrussum" is a very convenient service area: about 10 km away, near Nîmes, there's the turn for the A54 to Arles (and on to Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Nice, etc.). The area is huge, with dozens of trucks and hundreds of cars, so it's a good place to catch a long ride. It took me 1,5 hours to get a ride (which took me all t”
― Anonymous, Mon 2011-10-10 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“Lot of people there, but it took me about 50 minutes to find a car going to Orange.”
― tawax, Fri 2023-08-25 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“Many cars going by at slow pace. Eventually a guy offered to take me.”
― silverninja, Sun 2024-09-22 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud
“Spot is really good if you want to go to marseille. A lot of cars. We wanted to go north, not many people want to go there.”
― Anonymous, Wed 2025-03-19 · Aire d'Ambrussum Sud

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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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