The road
Hamburg to Salzburg by car
921 km, about 8 h 42 on the fastest road, through Germany and Austria. Fuel from about €151 in a petrol car at this week's prices, with about €10 in tolls on the way.
Measured on the road our router draws, 2026-09-30. Your own start and vehicle change every number — that is what the button at the end is for.
Distance
921 km
fastest road, one way
Driving
8 h 42
without stops
Countries
2
Germany and Austria
The road, country by country
- 🇩🇪 Germany · 898 km
- 🇦🇹 Austria · 23 km
What it costs to drive
Fuel at the 2026-09-20 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.
| Vehicle | Fuel | Tolls | Together | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Car, petrol | €151 | €10 | €161 | 64 l at 7 l/100 km |
| Car, diesel | €147 | €10 | €157 | 60 l at 6.5 l/100 km |
| Camper, diesel | €271 | €10 | €281 | 111 l at 12 l/100 km |
- 🇩🇪 petrol €2.35 · diesel €2.46 /l
- 🇦🇹 petrol €1.93 · diesel €2.24 /l
Charged on the way
- 🎫 Austrian motorway vignette — €9.6 (Vehicle up to 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
402 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
- ⛺ Caravan site / aire · camper site · km 303, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Jugendzeltplatz Datscha · campsite · km 538, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Bauer-Keller · campsite · km 663, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Campingplatz Seehamer See · campsite · km 820, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Wohnmobilhafen Chiemsee Bernau-Felden · camper site · km 862, 0.1 km off the road
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
- ◆ Burckhardtdenkmal · memorial · km 154, 8.5 km off the road
- ◆ Burg Hardeg · attraction · km 249, 6.2 km off the road
- ◆ Konrad-Zuse-Museum · museum · km 389, 6 km off the road
- ◆ Wasserturm Bergl · attraction · km 477, 9.4 km off the road
- ◆ Teufelsbadstube · attraction · km 598, 4.3 km off the road
- ◆ Museum für konkrete Kunst · museum · km 699, 2.3 km off the road
- ◆ Altenwaldeck · attraction · km 827, 3.1 km off the road
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.
- 1275 viewpoints — Leuchtfeuer Bunthaus (km 15), Hardenbergwarte (km 249), Breitfeldhöhe (km 493), Pfeifturm (km 693)
- 750 swim spots — Strandbad Dorfmark (km 85), Naturerlebnisbad Grone (km 264), Geisbergbad (km 495), Dantebad (km 759)
- 702 castles — Harburger Schloss (km 12), Schloß Imbshausen (km 232), Rotes Schloss (km 461), Neues Schloss (km 693)
- 524 farm shops — Spargel-Hof Körner (km 580), Bio-Hofladen (km 752), Erdbeeren Kiosk (km 772), Habeker Hof (km 776)
- 317 wineries — Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg (km 502), Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg und Vinothek (km 502), Weinbau K. und P. Pohl (km 505)
- 191 climbing — Kronsberg life tower (km 155), RoXx-Kletterzentrum (km 257), BLOCKHELDEN Boulderhalle Frankenjura (km 578), Boulderwand Riesige Rosi (km 783)
On this road
Plan this road from your own door: your car, your dates, the beds and the food priced the same honest way.