From Cologne to Alsace
France for a long weekend and then some: Strasbourg with its cathedral and Petite France, then Colmar as the base for the Wine Route from Riquewihr to Eguisheim. Short distances, plenty of half-timbered houses, and tarte flambée instead of driving in the evening.
One-way route · calculated on 27 October 2026 with the Camperada planner
- Distance
- 423 km
- Pure driving time
- 4 hrs 32 mins
- Travel days
- 7
- Nights
- 6
Stages and overnight stops
Cologne
Starting point of the route
Day 1
Strasbourg
Drive 352 km, 3 hrs 39 mins · 2 nights
Day 1
Colmar
Drive 71 km, 0 hrs 53 mins · 4 nights
Day 3
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 €111
- 49 litres of diesel at 11.5 l/100 km
- Blended price €2.29/l, weighted by the kilometres per country
- national averages of 12 October 2026 (European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices incl. taxes))
Tolls and vignettes
For this route the planner lists no vignettes or special toll sections.
Distance toll France: France charges by distance: the amount depends on where you enter and exit. Depending on height and weight, motorhomes fall into class 2 or 3.
Overnight stays
€177 to €276
- France, 6 nights€177 to €276
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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