Motorhome route planner for Europe

Every mainstream route planner solves the same problem: the fastest line between two points for a vehicle that fits everywhere. A motorhome does not fit everywhere. It is typically 3.0–3.5m tall, 7–8m long and somewhere either side of 3.5 tonnes, and each of those numbers closes roads that a car takes without noticing.

The failures are rarely dramatic. They are a 2.9m railway bridge on the pretty valley road, a village with a 3.5-tonne limit on the only through route, a mountain pass that bans vehicles over 7.5m, and a hairpin that is legal but that you would not attempt twice. A planner that does not know your dimensions cannot warn you about any of them, so the warning arrives as a turn you have to reverse out of.

This planner takes the vehicle first. Give it your height, length, width and weight and the route is audited against OpenStreetMap's own restriction tags — maxheight, maxweight, maxlength — before it is shown to you. Where a leg fails, the route is rebuilt around it rather than annotated with a caution you are expected to solve yourself.

The overnight question separates European motorhome travel from every other kind, and it changes at each border. France has around 6,000 aires de service, many of them free and most of them explicitly for motorhomes. Germany's Stellplätze are a parallel network that visitors routinely never find because the word does not translate. Spain distinguishes between parking and camping in a way that decides whether your evening is legal. Italy's ZTL zones will fine you for driving into a town centre you were only trying to park near.

Wild camping rules cut across all of it, and they are not the same as the rules for a tent. Sweden's allemansrätten is generous to walkers and much narrower for vehicles. Portugal rewrote its motorhome law in 2021, and a large share of the advice still online predates it.

Each night in a generated trip is a real place with a real reason attached — a municipal aire, a Stellplatz, a campsite, a spot known to allow overnight parking — rather than a pin dropped where the driving happened to stop. Where a night cannot be confirmed against real data, it says so instead of inventing one.

Tolls in France, Italy and Spain are charged by vehicle class, and a motorhome over 3m tall or 3.5 tonnes usually falls into a more expensive band than the one quoted on comparison sites. Switzerland and Austria charge differently again — a vignette below 3.5 tonnes, the GO-Box or a Swiss heavy-vehicle charge above it. Fuel consumption at 9–14 L/100km turns a route that looks marginally longer into one that is meaningfully more expensive.

Trip costs are estimated from your own consumption figure and your own overnight budget rather than a generic default, so the total reflects the vehicle you are actually driving.