Speed limits in Switzerland

[Nidge1]

Can anybody tell me the speed limits, solo and towing a caravan for the roads in Switzerland.

Many thanks Nidge

 

[Dusty1]

Built up areas 50 kph, open road solo 80 kph, open road towing 60 kph, motorways 100-120 kph, motorways towing 80 kph, motorways minimum speed 60 kph.

 

[Lutz]

Slight correction there, Dusty, the speed limit for open road towing is also 80kph not 60kph.

 

[Dusty1]

Hi Lutz, took this straight out of the Caravan Club Europe 2005 book. In the Caravan Club Holiday Guide it gives the outside built up area towing speed as 80 kph. There appears to be a printing error in the European Guide which I think has been there for some time now. I shall have to notify the Caravan Club!!!

 

[Lutz]

Heaven forbid if the speed limit were only 60kph. If that were the case every other road user would curse each and every caravanner for holding up the traffic flow. A few countries have limits of 70kph when towing (Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey) but 80kph is the norm.

 

[Nidge1]

Many thanks to all who replied to my query

Regards Nidge

 

[Dusty1]

Here is the response from the Caravan Club:

'Good afternoon

Your email of 22 July has been passed to me - apologies for the delay in replying. The following is the exact wording about speed limits in the touring information supplied to us by the TCS motoring organisation in Switzerland.

Speed limit for:

"Light motor vehicle (up to 3,500 kg) with trailer with total laden weight exceeding 1,000 kg* - 60 km/h on normal rd."

A normal road is one that is not a motorway or semi-motorway.

*For trailer with total laden weight not exceeding 1,000 kg the speed limit is 80 km/h.

I hope this is helpful.

Bernice Hoare

Editor

Caravan Europe'

 

[Lutz]

There must have been a misprint in the information that the TCS sent to the Caravan Club because the following data, also from TCS quotes 80km/h:

http://www.acs.ch/de/data/pdf/merkblatt_schweiz_04.pdf
(refer to Geschwindigkeiten, Ausserorts, PW mit Anh

 

[Lutz]

Sorry, the info is from ACS, not TCS, but both are from Switzerland.

 

[Lutz]

I've found following information from the TCS website which confirms 80km/h outside built-up areas, too:

Limitations de vitesse

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