From Hamburg to Lake Garda
The classic first big tour: the length of Germany, then via Innsbruck and the Brenner to Lake Garda's southern shore. Würzburg and Innsbruck split the drive into relaxed days, and at the lake the campsites line the shore.
One-way route · calculated on 27 October 2026 with the Camperada planner
- Distance
- 1,143 km
- Pure driving time
- 12 hrs 28 mins
- Travel days
- 12
- Nights, 1 of them on the way
- 11
Stages and overnight stops
Hamburg
Starting point of the route
Day 1
Würzburg
Drive 509 km, 5 hrs 8 mins, spread over 2 driving days · 1 night
Day 2
Innsbruck
Drive 372 km, 4 hrs 36 mins · 2 nights
Day 3
Peschiera del Garda
Drive 263 km, 2 hrs 43 mins · 7 nights
Day 5
Divided with at most 5 hours of driving per day. In the planner you set your own pace, and the stages rearrange themselves.
What the route costs
Fuel
around €297
- 132 litres of diesel at 11.5 l/100 km
- Blended price €2.26/l, weighted by the kilometres per country
- national averages of 12 October 2026 (European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices incl. taxes))
Tolls and vignettes
€25
- Vignette Austria (10 days, category B)€13
- Brenner motorway A13 (single trip)€13
Plus distance-based tolls, estimated as a range:
- Italy, class B, around 205 km tolled€18 to €37
A range instead of a single figure, because tariffs vary by entry and exit.
Tariffs as of 2026, up to 3.5 t maximum permitted weight.
Overnight stays
€434 to €635
- Italy, 7 nights€272 to €441
- Austria, 2 nights€89 to €112
- Germany, 2 nights€73 to €82
Average prices for 2 adults and 1 child per night, mid to high season (PiNCAMP price analysis 2026 (ADAC)). Your site may be below or above that.
How vignettes, distance tolls and special tolls interact across Europe is explained in the toll guide. What else to budget for on a motorhome trip is collected in the trip costs.
Make it your trip
All figures here apply to the one-way route with default assumptions. In the planner, exactly this route opens with all its stops: set your own starting point, and the return leg, your vehicle and your nights recalculate live. Free and without an account.
Open the route in the plannerWhat was calculated with
- Vehicle assumption: 3.00 m tall, 2.30 m wide, 7.00 m long, 3.5 t. These are reference values, not a specific vehicle.
- Routed via GraphHopper on an OpenStreetMap basis. The vehicle dimensions fed into the routing.
- One-way route without the return: it depends on your starting point and is added in the planner.
- Calculated on 27 October 2026; in the planner the same route recalculates live with current prices.
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