Summer travel traffic: traffic jams and the start of the holiday - this is how your trip stays relaxed!

Summer travel traffic: traffic jams and the start of the holiday - this is how your trip stays relaxed!

The end of the school year is just around the corner, and summer travel traffic picks up speed. In Eastern Austria, the great holiday season begins for the students: Inside from Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland on June 27, 2025. This means that the streets will be well filled again in the coming weeks. According to ÖAMTC , some traffic jams are expected until mid-July, but the largest traffic density will only occur between mid-July and mid-August.

A highlight of the weekend is the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Spielberg, which will take place from June 27th to 29th. With around 300,000 expected visitors: Inside, there will also be a lot of traffic. If you plan to drive to the exciting races, you should expect additional delays.

traffic forecasts and dialing indications

Especially on the usual north-south routes, it is expected to be tight. The adac attributes the most common traffic jams to overloaded motorways and days with high travel. Everywhere the most sought -after routes are concerned: the Fernpassstraße (B179) and the Brenner Autobahn (A13) in Tyrol are badly affected, as are the Tauern (A10) and the Karawanken Autobahn (A11) in Salzburg and Carinthia. The Pyhrn Autobahn (A9) in Upper Austria and Styria will also be full. 

The most susceptible areas include toll stations, tunnels and border crossings. Long waiting times can quickly occur here. In particular, the highway transitions Suben, Walserberg and Kiefersfelden are affected by the tightened border controls, which also makes the situation more difficult. Don't forget: the rescue alley must already be formed when traffic stalls to avoid fines.

construction site information and international needle tube

Additional unmounters come through construction sites, both in Austria and in Germany. The ADAC Maps offer current information on traffic flows and disorders so that travelers are displayed at any time. Particularly intensive storage risk on streets and important motorways such as the A3 between Cologne and Frankfurt or the A8, which leads from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart to Munich

A current building site example is the Brenner motorway, where there is two-track traffic in the area of ​​the Lueg Bridge, which means that traffic jams are not excluded here too. There are also further renovation work on the Pfänder tunnel and temporary downhill locks in Tyrol.