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Hitchhiking from Vienna to Cologne

About 14 h 51 min of hitchhiking — roughly 1037 km in 6 ride(s), including about 3 h 52 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 Vienna to BP — 7.2 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 196.6 km (1 h 58 min) from BP to Raststation Ansfelden Nord. Expect around 26 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Hitch 125.5 km (1 h 15 min) from Raststation Ansfelden Nord to 48.56454, 13.38553. Expect around 48 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  4. Walk 3.0 km (36 min) from 48.56454, 13.38553 to Donautal Ost.
  5. Hitch 233.3 km (2 h 20 min) from Donautal Ost to Rastplatz Ludergraben. Expect around 48 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  6. Hitch 111.1 km (1 h 07 min) from Rastplatz Ludergraben to Rasthof Haidt Nord. Expect around 42 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Hitch 335.2 km (3 h 21 min) from Rasthof Haidt Nord to Siegburg Ost. Expect around 40 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  8. Hitch 35.2 km (21 min) from Siegburg Ost to Cologne. Expect around 28 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  9. Get from a hitchhiking spot near Cologne to Cologne — 5.0 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“From our point of view this is a good spot not to hitchhike but to ask someone to get you to the better hitchhiking spot approximately 5 kilometers further (marked also on this map, OMV gas station). From there we found a car in 10 minutes just by asking people.”
― Anonymous · BP
“If you come out at the Metro stop "Ober St.Veit" go in metrodriving direction for 200 meters over the bridge. You'll see a McDonalds and a gas station. Ask there... I've hitchhiked from there a couple of times. Just perfect.”
― Diamanontolo, 2012-02-16 · BP
“waited 15 minutes for a ride to Linz @ McDonalds”
― Fraughtwithsounds, 2014-07-25 · BP
“I think you still need to get further away from the city. I was solo, with sign. My first hitch-hike ever, so maybe I was not very confident while asking for a ride, idk :)”
― purma1, 2024-07-05 · BP
“Probably a good spot to get a ride to the OMW station, but the part of the highway towards the OMW was temporarily closed, so no lifts there. We opted to walk 10 mins further and stand with a sign. Worked well.”
― Dalby, 2023-09-11 · BP
“Just went to the gas station. We (2 guys) didn’t even have to take our sign out, we got a ride to Munich with the 3rd car we asked. I guess quite lucky, but the spot looks really good anyways.”
― nach0, 2025-09-02 · BP
“In the evening petrol station was empty, only local cars there. It looks like a good spot, but somehow I decided to go to the next spot and there I got a ride in 20 minutes”
― estasbien, 2025-09-04 · BP
“"autobahnraststätte ansfelden" good place (petrolstation) to hitch to germany in direction of passau/regensburg/nürnberg (A3). take the bus nr. 2 from the trainstation in linz and get out at the stop "Ansfelden GIGA KIKA". From there 2 min walk to the petrolstation”
― Anonymous · Raststation Ansfelden Nord
“I was waiting for 5 minutes. The first (and only car) at the gasstation took me nearly to Stuttgart”
― Anonymous, 2018-04-13 · Raststation Ansfelden Nord
“coming from vienna i had to change here for salzburg, found a ride within five minutes”
― Corwohl, 2014-05-06 · Raststation Ansfelden Nord

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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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