What a drive to the Mediterranean costs from 16 European cities
Where you start decides what the road costs long before you reach the sea. Here is the road itself — fuel, tolls and vignettes, bridges and ferries — for the same kind of trip from 16 cities, each priced by our planner from published tariffs. Beds and food depend on how you travel, so they are in the table, not the chart.
Written 11 Oct 2026 from trips planned 11 Oct 2026; fuel at the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin of 4 Oct 2026. Figures frozen 11 Oct 2026, so they don't move under a discussion. Corrections welcome.
By car to the Côte d'Azur
Bars on this panel's own scale: the longest is €413.
From München the road costs about €210; from Manchester, €413 — and from London, Birmingham, Manchester that's before the Channel ferry, whose fare shows only in the booking.
By motorhome to southern Spain
Bars on this panel's own scale: the longest is €1,968.
The same kind of motorhome trip to southern Spain: from Köln the road costs about €716 for 2,417 km; from Helsinki €1,968 for 4,555 km. The kilometres don't explain all of it: the bridges, the ferry and the city charges on the way out of the Nordics add €318 before the first French toll.
The whole trip
Days, distance and the full cost with nights and food, as the planner priced each trip. Car trips sleep in budget hotels; motorhome trips at campsites. drive-south.csv
Free to use with credit: copilot.travel (CC BY 4.0). Each row is a trip as our planner priced it on the date shown: fuel from the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, tolls, vignettes, bridges and ferries at their operators' published prices.
The table (21 trips)
| Trip | Days | Road | Nights | Food | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| München → Côte d'Azurcar · 858 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 102 driving | €210 | €7049 × budget hotels | €403 | ≈ €1,292 |
| Frankfurt am Main → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,152 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 103 driving | €249 | €7439 × budget hotels | €496 | ≈ €1,445 |
| Köln → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,294 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 103 driving | €252 | €7029 × budget hotels | €412 | ≈ €1,366 |
| Eindhoven → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,384 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 143 driving | €268 | €1,01413 × budget hotels | €595 | ≈ €1,877 |
| Amsterdam → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,477 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 143 driving | €293 | €1,01413 × budget hotels | €591 | ≈ €1,898 |
| Rotterdam → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,458 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 143 driving | €296 | €1,01413 × budget hotels | €589 | ≈ €1,899 |
| Utrecht → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,480 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 143 driving | €299 | €1,01413 × budget hotels | €591 | ≈ €1,904 |
| Berlin → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,742 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 104 driving | €316 | €6909 × budget hotels | €406 | ≈ €1,387 |
| Hamburg → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,645 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 104 driving | €318 | €7499 × budget hotels | €473 | ≈ €1,497 |
| London → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,397 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 144 driving | €356+ the Dover–Calais ferry fare | €1,01413 × budget hotels | €569 | ≈ €1,914+ |
| Birmingham → Côte d'Azurcar · 1,922 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 145 driving | €386+ the Dover–Calais ferry fare | €1,01013 × budget hotels | €567 | ≈ €1,959+ |
| Manchester → Côte d'Azurcar · 2,038 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 145 driving | €413+ the Dover–Calais ferry fare | €1,01013 × budget hotels | €565 | ≈ €1,975+ |
| Köln → Andalusiamotorhome · 2,417 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 155 driving | €716 | €24814 × campsites | €545 | ≈ €1,509 |
| Frankfurt am Main → Andalusiamotorhome · 2,454 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 145 driving | €774 | €23113 × campsites | €512 | ≈ €1,517 |
| Hamburg → Andalusiamotorhome · 2,953 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 156 driving | €859 | €25314 × campsites | €554 | ≈ €1,666 |
| München → Andalusiamotorhome · 2,524 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 155 driving | €888 | €26014 × campsites | €656 | ≈ €1,729 |
| Berlin → Andalusiamotorhome · 2,977 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 146 driving | €903 | €23613 × campsites | €523 | ≈ €1,662 |
| Turku → Costa del Solmotorhome · 4,319 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 1810 driving | €1,919+ the second traveller on the Naantali–Kapellskär ferry | €33717 × campsites | €704 | ≈ €2,669+ |
| Tampere → Costa del Solmotorhome · 4,469 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 1810 driving | €1,922+ the second traveller on the Naantali–Kapellskär ferry | €31417 × campsites | €709 | ≈ €2,627+ |
| Oulu → Costa del Solmotorhome · 5,187 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 1710 driving | €1,967 | €31816 × campsites | €683 | ≈ €2,740 |
| Helsinki → Costa del Solmotorhome · 4,555 km · planned 11 Oct 2026 | 1910 driving | €1,968+ the second traveller on the Naantali–Kapellskär ferry | €33118 × campsites | €750 | ≈ €2,731+ |
Notes and caveats
- Each row is one trip as the planner priced it on the date shown, for two adults, at its "comfortable" pace (about 5 hours on the road a day). Other paces change the days more than the road.
- Fuel uses the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin's prices for the countries driven through; tolls, vignettes, bridges and ferries the operators' and authorities' published prices.
- A ferry fare that shows only in the booking, or a fare that covers fewer people than travel, is listed beside the row and never counted as zero.
- Cars and motorhomes are in separate panels on purpose: a motorhome pays more on French autoroutes and bridges and burns more fuel.