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Hitchhiking from Riga to Hamburg

About 22 h 40 min of hitchhiking — roughly 1805 km in 8 ride(s), including about 2 h 50 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 Riga to Circle K — 2.9 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 4.4 km (3 min) from Circle K to Apiņu iela, Ķekavas pagasts. Expect around 24 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Hitch 73.1 km (44 min) from Apiņu iela, Ķekavas pagasts to Zaļā iela, Bauska. Expect around 17 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  4. Hitch 251.0 km (2 h 31 min) from Zaļā iela, Bauska to Pagiriai. Expect around 21 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  5. Hitch 147.8 km (1 h 29 min) from Pagiriai to MOP Rudniki Północ. Expect around 29 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  6. Hitch 314.3 km (3 h 09 min) from MOP Rudniki Północ to Mory. Expect around 14 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Walk 0.0 km (0 min) from Mory to Poznańska, Mory.
  8. Hitch 676.6 km (6 h 46 min) from Poznańska, Mory to Berlin. Expect around 29 min of waiting here. 5 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  9. Walk 8.8 km (1 h 46 min) from Berlin to HEM.
  10. Hitch 0.6 km (0 min) from HEM to Shell. Expect around 4 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  11. Walk 0.1 km (1 min) from Shell to Berlin.
  12. Hitch 337.4 km (3 h 22 min) from Berlin to Sievekingsallee, Hamburg. Expect around 32 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  13. Get from Sievekingsallee, Hamburg to Hamburg — 4.1 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“2026 spring update, amazing spot right now, road works have taken down the speeds, instead of two lanes there's only one very slow, due to the redirections of bus lines (no people besides you) and huge bus stop, its amazingly comfortable for cars to stop here, which means for the time the roadworks are in affect (most likely til the end of the year or til next spring) you will have a literal cheat”
― estohiker, 2026-05-02 · Circle K
“Agree. Lots of local traffic, nobody wants to stop. Solo female, cloudy Sunday morning. Waited for 45 minutes and decided to take the bus to Kekava, which was a good decision.”
― friki, 2025-08-24 · Circle K
“indeed good spot for getting out of riga, but sign IS NECESSARY, I was standing with thumb and failed my route.”
― AleksP, 2026-05-12 · Circle K
“Lots of local traffic, no one stopped at the bus stop for 30min. I tried asking around in the gas station and then a guy took me to the Kekava roundabout.”
― anettlee17, 2025-07-21 · Circle K
“There's an ongoing roadwork, so the bus stop no longer exists. No space for the cars to stop”
― Anonymous, 2026-07-17 · Circle K
“There is a bus stop: "Neilandi", the bus 26 go there from city and across the road is the sign of RIGA. Firstly I try to hitchhiking with the sign Vilnius but after 30 min with no result, I change the sing to Bauska. After this in 5 min one driver stopped and bring me to Bauska”
― Roman21, 2025-09-10 · Apiņu iela, Ķekavas pagasts
“3 cars stopped at the same time! Fantastic spot, got a ride straight to Kaunas. Read the comments from other people for directions to find this spot!”
― Jarnohitchikes, 2026-07-04 · Apiņu iela, Ķekavas pagasts
“There's a bus station here so the cars can stop going to LV or to the south :)”
― Anonymous, 2013-04-20 · Zaļā iela, Bauska
“I got almost stuck here!!! big trucks "never" will stop !!! They don't have room for that ! Small cars only ! It was raining and a lady took me only 8 km 😅 hahaha at least the other one had a little more room for cars to stop !”
― Onlyexperiences, 2024-10-02 · Zaļā iela, Bauska
“Small bus stop for cars to stop. semi's won't stop there. Got super lucky and got picked up by two girls that were going to concert in Warsaw”
― AsqueN, 2024-08-01 · Zaļā iela, Bauska

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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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