The road
Hamburg to Dubrovnik by car
1867 km, about 17 h 42 on the fastest road, through Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. Fuel from about €259 in a petrol car at this week's prices, with about €88 in tolls on the way.
Measured on the road our router draws, 2026-10-12. Your own start and vehicle change every number — that is what the button at the end is for.
1867 km fastest road, one way · 17 h 42 driving without stops · 4 countries
The trip, at your pace
Each pace is its own plan of this road for two by car: the driving days it needs, the nights on the way and at Dubrovnik, and what it costs.
| Pace | Days | Nights | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relaxed ≈ 4 h a day | 15 days | 14 nights | ≈ €1,910 fuel €255 · tolls €98 · 14 nights €984 · food €573 |
| Comfortable ≈ 5 h a day | 14 days | 13 nights | ≈ €1,798 fuel €246 · tolls €99 · 13 nights €918 · food €535 |
| Long days ≈ 7 h a day | 13 days | 12 nights | ≈ €1,683 fuel €249 · tolls €99 · 12 nights €838 · food €497 |
Places on the way
203 km
Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking · CC BY-SA 3.0 de St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim
Day 1 · 203 km into the day · a lunch stop
The Church of St. Michael is an early-Romanesque church located in Hildesheim, Germany. Wikipedia
807 km
Photo: Thomas Euler from Wermelskirchen, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 Bavarian Forest
Day 3 · 57 km into the day · a morning stop
The Bavarian Forest is a wooded, low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany, that is about 100 kilometres long. Wikipedia
1,956 km
Photo: Neoneo13 · Public domain Mljet
Day 5 · 62 km before tonight's stop
Mljet is the southernmost and easternmost of the larger Adriatic islands of the Dalmatia region of Croatia, known also as Croatia's "greenest island". Wikipedia
24 km
Photo: InDoRoN · CC BY-SA 3.0 Vjetrenica Cave
Day 6 · 24 km from Dubrovnik
Vjetrenica is the largest cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the most biodiverse cave in the world. Wikipedia
3 km
Photo: Timur Voronkov · Public domain Lokrum
Day 6 · 3 km from Dubrovnik
Lokrum is an island in the Adriatic Sea 600 metres from the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Wikipedia
2 km
Photo: Bracodbk · CC BY-SA 3.0 Walls of Dubrovnik
Day 6 · 2 km from Dubrovnik
The Walls of Dubrovnik are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia. Wikipedia
The road, country by country
- 🇩🇪 Germany · 838 km
- 🇦🇹 Austria · 307 km
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia · 98 km
- 🇭🇷 Croatia · 624 km
With a camper's height and weight the router takes a different road: 1870 km, about 19 h 18.
What it costs to drive
Fuel at the 2026-10-04 prices of the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, per country crossed. Tolls are an estimate from published per-kilometre tariffs plus the crossings on this road. Beds and food are not here: they depend on how you travel.
A camper, the whole sum: 3 days of driving, 2 nights at a campsite about €20 each, self-catering for two about €24 a day — with the fuel and tolls below about €701.
| Vehicle | Fuel | Tolls | Together | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Car, petrol | €259 | €88 | €347 | 131 l at 7 l/100 km |
| Car, diesel | €258 | €88 | €346 | 121 l at 6.5 l/100 km |
| Camper, diesel | €476 | €113 | €589 | 224 l at 12 l/100 km |
- 🇩🇪 petrol €2.20 · diesel €2.25 /l
- 🇦🇹 petrol €1.84 · diesel €2.14 /l
- 🇸🇮 petrol €1.76 · diesel €1.98 /l
- 🇭🇷 petrol €1.83 · diesel €1.98 /l
Charged on the way
- 🇭🇷 Motorway tolls in Croatia: about €43 for a car over 633 km — an estimate; the exact amount depends on the roads you take.
- 🎫 Austrian motorway vignette — €9.6 (Vehicle up to 3.5 t) · unverified
- 🎫 Slovenian e-vignette — €16 (Car / campervan ≤ 3.5 t (class 2A)) · unverified
- 🌉 Bosruck tunnel (A9) — €7 (Vehicle up to 3.5 t (car, campervan, motorhome ≤ 3.5 t)) · unverified
- 🌉 Gleinalm tunnel (A9) — €12 (Vehicle up to 3.5 t (car, campervan, motorhome ≤ 3.5 t)) · unverified
- 🚫 Hamburg: Diesel-Durchfahrtsverbote (older diesel bans on some streets) — Older diesel vehicles on specific streets.
Shops on a Sunday
- 🇩🇪 Germany — Supermarkets are shut on Sundays by law — the exceptions are stations, airports and petrol stations. Shop on Saturday.
- 🇦🇹 Austria — Shops are shut on Sundays by law, with station and petrol-station shops the usual exceptions. Shop on Saturday.
Where to sleep beside the road
545 campsites and camper sites within 10 km of this road, from OpenStreetMap. A few between the two ends:
- ⛺ Parkplatz "Großer Freizeitsee" · camper site · km 240, 0.1 km off the road
🤖 copilot.travel machine-analysed from the place's own page: a dump station · motorhomes can come · parking for visitors · water within walking distance
- ⛺ Majolka · camper site · km 1194, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Good Energy Camping · campsite · km 1773, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Budina · campsite · km 1825, 0 km off the road
- ⛺ Camping Baldo · camper site · km 1830, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Campsite / aire · campsite · km 1849, 0 km off the road
Places of remembrance near the road: Göttinger 7 (km 263).
Worth a detour
Between the two ends, within 10 km of the road — the places the map marks as notable.
- ◆ Oldendorfer Totenstatt · attraction · km 46, 10 km off the road
- ◆ Top Of The World · attraction · km 538, 0.5 km off the road
🤖 copilot.travel machine-analysed from its Wikipedia article: not for small children
- ◆ Porta praetoria · attraction · km 704, 3.2 km off the road
- ◆ Galerie Fokus · gallery · km 994, 7.8 km off the road
- ◆ Muzej krapinskih neandertalaca · museum · km 1218, 0.8 km off the road
🤖 copilot.travel machine-analysed from its Wikipedia article: fine with small children
- ◆ Tvrđava Fortica · fort · km 1517, 5.8 km off the road
Novigrad Castle, locally called "Fortica" is a ruined hilltop castle above village of Novigrad in Zadar County, Croatia. Wikipedia (en)
- ◆ Basement Halls of Diocletian's Palace · attraction · km 1640, 8.8 km off the road
The Cellars of Diocletian's Palace, sometimes referred to as the "basement halls", is a set of substructures, located at the southern end of Diocletian's Palace (now the southernmost part of Split's Old Town), that once held up the private apartments of Emperor Diocletian and represent one of the best preserved ancient complexes of their kind in the world. Wikipedia (en)
What this road is for
Counted within 10 km of the road between the two ends, from OpenStreetMap — the places a passion would stop for.
- 1362 viewpoints — Leuchtfeuer Bunthaus (km 12), Breitfeldhöhe (km 484), Wurbauerkogel (km 938), Viewpoint (km 1599)
- 1062 swim spots — Strandbad Dorfmark (km 86), Geisbergbad (km 486), Sport- und Freizeitpark Frohnleiten (km 1045), Banj (km 1546)
- 1006 castles — Harburger Schloss (km 12), Balthasar-Neumann-Schloss Werneck (km 468), Schloss Röthelstein (km 968), Tvrđava Fortica (km 1474)
- 436 farm shops — Spargel-Hof Körner (km 569)
- 288 wineries — Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (km 487), Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg und Vinothek (km 487), Weinbau K. und P. Pohl (km 496), Vinska klet VINAG (km 1130)
- 220 climbing — GriffReich - DAV Kletterzentrum Hannover (km 155), BLOCKHELDEN Boulderhalle Frankenjura (km 566), Peggauer Wand (km 1048), Zub od Manite peći (km 1474)
Plan this road from your own door: your car, your dates, the beds and the food priced the same honest way.