🇳🇱 Cross-border drive · Netherlands → Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Driving from Amsterdam to Luxembourg
- Drive time
- 4h 52m
- Distance
- 409 km
- Same day?
- Yes, doable
- under 8 h
- Fuel cost
- ≈ €64
- petrol · diesel ≈ €57
- Tolls
- Toll-free
- no charges en route
- EV charging
- Plenty fast
- 10 of 97 ≥50 kW
On this page
Route map
Route options
Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.
Alternative
+25m- Distance:
- 462 km (+53 km)
- Duration:
- 5h 17m
Via: A 3 · A 1 · B 51 · A12
Avoids motorways
+2h 21m- Distance:
- 417 km (+8 km)
- Duration:
- 7h 14m
Via: N4 · N74 · N63 · N210
How else can you make this trip?
Driving is the focus of this guide; here's how cycling, coach, and (soon) train and plane stack up for the same pair.
4h 52m
409 km · €64 fuel
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Not realistic
409 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.
5h 25m
FlixBus-eu
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6h 5m
Eurostar · NMBS/SNCB
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Trip plan
How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.
Easy one-day drive
Comfortable as a single day for one driver. Leave after breakfast, arrive with time to settle in.
- Distance:
- 409 km
- Duration:
- 4h 52m (free-flow, no traffic)
Where to stop
Places along the route that make natural breaks for coffee, lunch, or a night.
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Teteringen 🇳🇱 nl
≈102 km≈ 6.1 km detour from the main route
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Wezembeek-Oppem 🇧🇪 be
≈204 km≈ 2.7 km detour from the main route
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Rochefort 🇧🇪 be
≈307 km≈ 10.7 km detour from the main route
Key moves
Things to know before you set off — borders, sides of the road, tolls.
Multi-country chain · NL → BE → LU
You'll cross 3 countries on this drive — each with its own toll system, fuel pricing, and motorway rules. Skim the must-know section below before you set off, and have your registration plus insurance card in the door pocket for any roadside check.
Long rural stretch on R0
Plan for about 11 km of two-lane country roads. Slower than motorway, but often the pretty part — fewer overtakes after dark.
Must-know before you go
The things a driver from another country wouldn't think to ask about — fines, stickers, payment cards, opening hours.
City access & emission zones
Brussels Low Emission Zone covers all 19 communes
Must knowBrussels LEZ runs 24/7 across the entire city; foreign plates must register online before arrival. Diesel pre-Euro 4 and petrol pre-Euro 1 are banned outright. The fine for unregistered entry is €350. Antwerp and Ghent have their own LEZs with different sticker requirements.
Tolls, vignettes & road payment
No motorway tolls, but Westerschelde tunnel charges
TipDutch motorways are free for cars, but a few specific crossings charge. The Westerscheldetunnel near Vlissingen is €5–7. Kil Tunnel (A29) and Liefkenshoektunnel (Antwerp side) are similarly priced. Pay contactless on entry — there's no booth queue.
Driving rules & habits
Bicycles have right-of-way at unmarked junctions
UsefulIn the Netherlands, cyclists are treated as full traffic and often given priority you'd expect from a pedestrian crossing back home. Always check the bike lane before turning. At a roundabout in town, cyclists get the inside line and you yield. The rule that bites is unmarked junctions in residential streets — yield to the bike.
Town names switch language across the border
TipBelgium signs towns in the local language: Mons becomes Bergen in Flanders, Liège becomes Luik, Brussels becomes Bruxelles/Brussel. SatNav usually handles both, but printed maps and exit signs can throw you. If you're looking for "Mons" on a Flemish-side motorway, you'll see "Bergen" on the gantry.
Fuel stations
Luxembourg fuel is the cheapest in Western Europe
UsefulIf your route passes through or skims Luxembourg, fuel here. Lower excise duty pushes diesel and petrol prices €0.20–0.40/L below FR/DE/BE. Truck drivers detour for it — for a passenger car a 30-litre fill saves €10 easily. Look for stations near the borders (Bertrange, Wasserbillig, Foetz).
Contactless cards work at virtually every motorway pump
TipMajor brand stations (Shell, Total, BP, Repsol, Cepsa, OMV, Eni, Esso) take Visa and Mastercard contactless without an issue. American Express and Diners are spotty south of the Alps. A €100 pre-authorisation hold is normal — it releases within 5 days. Carry €50 cash for the rare independent station.
Money & connectivity
EU roaming covers calls, texts and data at no extra cost
TipYour home EU SIM works at home rates across every EU member, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The "fair use" cap on data only applies if you're abroad more than four months. For a 2-week road trip, just use your phone normally — but switch off "data roaming" if you're leaving the EU into UK / CH for any segment.
Emergency & breakdown
112 works everywhere in the EU and continental neighbours
TipSingle number for police, ambulance, fire — works from any phone, any network, any country. On motorways, the orange SOS pillars every 2km connect direct to the regional traffic control centre and pinpoint your location. Use them over your phone if you can — it speeds the response.
Rules, fees, and thresholds change. Always verify against the official source the day before you drive — this page is a checklist, not a legal reference.
Main roads
The highways this route spends the most kilometres on.
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E411 Waverse steenweg141 km
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E19 —67 km
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A27 —55 km
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E25; E411 Autoroute du Soleil42 km
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A2 —40 km
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A 6 Autoroute d'Arlon13 km
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R0 —11 km
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R1 —10 km
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A16 —5 km
Route character
How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.
Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.
- Motorway
- 90%
- Secondary
- 2%
- Other / rural
- 8%
Drive difficulty
At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?
Overall
Moderate
Manageable but pay attention — long enough that a second driver or a planned lunch break is smart.
- Cross-border: nl → lu. Keep documents accessible and check border rules.
Elevation profile
Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.
- Lowest point
- -3 m
- Highest point
- 441 m
- Total ascent
- ↑ 656 m
- Total descent
- ↓ 362 m
Fuel & tolls
Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.
Petrol (RON 95)
≈ €64
30.7 L × €2.09 / L · 7.5 L/100 km
Diesel
≈ €57
24.5 L × €2.34 / L · 6 L/100 km
Electric (DC fast)
≈ €50
72 kWh × €0.70 / kWh · 17.5 kWh/100 km
Public DC fast charging — slower AC charging at home or hotels typically costs about half.
Prices last refreshed 2026-10-12.
Fuel and EV charging along the route
Stations within a few kilometres of the road, sampled at evenly-spaced waypoints.
EV charging
10 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).
Fastest first
- Rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi — Luxembourg 350 kW
- Tesla Supercharger Luxembourg Urban (Floor -3) 250 kW
- Fastned Hazeldonk-Oost — Breda 175 kW
- Fastned Hazeldonk-West — Breda 175 kW
- Meerkerk Supercharger — Utrecht 120 kW
- Fastned Blommendaal — Zederik 50 kW
- AC Restaurant & Hotel Meerkerk — Meerkerk 50 kW
- Total Minderhout — Hoogstraten 50 kW
- Green Spot — Mechelen 50 kW
- Lidl — Neufchateau 50 kW
- S.L. van Alterenlaan — Lopik 22 kW
- Zuidzijde 131 — Molenwaard 22 kW
Weather by month
Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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7°
2°
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9°
3°
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11°
4°
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14°
6°
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18°
10°
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21°
13°
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21°
15°
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22°
14°
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20°
13°
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15°
10°
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10°
5°
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8°
4°
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| 103mm | 74mm | 59mm | 80mm | 97mm | 55mm | 122mm | 64mm | 86mm | 133mm | 106mm | 80mm |
hot mild cold
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
5°
0°
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7°
1°
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11°
3°
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13°
5°
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18°
9°
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23°
13°
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23°
14°
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24°
14°
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20°
12°
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15°
8°
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9°
4°
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6°
2°
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| 116mm | 60mm | 83mm | 68mm | 74mm | 50mm | 85mm | 78mm | 114mm | 97mm | 84mm | 63mm |
hot mild cold
Next 5 days at Luxembourg
Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.
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Mon 26
⛅
12° / 7°
1mm
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Tue 27
⛅
16° / 11°
3mm
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Wed 28
☀️
13° / 6°
—
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Thu 29
☀️
12° / 3°
—
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Fri 30
⛅
12° / 4°
—
Forecast: MET Norway
Directions
Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.
Show all 24 manoeuvres
- Singel
- Ringweg-Zuid (A10) 0.6 km
- (A2) 24 km
- (A2) 16 km
- Oude Rijksweg 2 km
- Lakerveld
- (A27) 26 km
- (A27) 22 km
- (A27) 6 km
- (A27; A58) 1 km
- (A16) 5 km
- (E19) 34 km
- (R1) 10 km
- (E19) 33 km
- — 0.4 km
- — 0.4 km
- (E19) 0.9 km
- — 1 km
- (R0) 11 km
- — 0.6 km
- Waverse steenweg (E411) 141 km
- Autoroute du Soleil (E25; E411) 42 km
- Autoroute d'Arlon (A 6) 13 km
- Tunnel René Konen (N 57)
By coach from Amsterdam to Luxembourg
Indicative duration of the fastest direct long-distance coach found in the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus EU schedules.
- Travel time
- 5h 25m
- Direct
- Operator
- FlixBus-eu
- Departures / day
- ~1
- Approximate based on the published schedule.
Show coach corridor on map
Schedules sourced from the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus GTFS feeds via transport.data.gouv.fr. Times are indicative; verify on the operator's site before booking.
Booking link coming soon.
By train from Amsterdam to Luxembourg
Fastest cross-border rail itinerary from the public Transitous planner. Times reflect a typical Monday-morning departure on the next available service-day.
- Fastest journey
- 6h 5m
- 4 changes
- Lead operator
- Eurostar
- + 4 more
- Alternatives
- 5
- Itineraries returned by the planner.
Trains on the fastest itinerary
- EST 9352
- IC 2115
- IC 4615
All operators across alternatives
- Eurostar
- NMBS/SNCB
- NS International
- NS
- SNCF VOYAGEURS
Includes a high-speed rail leg (TGV, ICE, AVE, Frecciarossa-class).
Show route on map
Routing via the public Transitous OTP planner (community-run MOTIS instance). Cached 24 hours; verify on the operator's site before booking.
How this page is built
Compiled by COD Solutions Oy from open European data — OSRM over OpenStreetMap for the route geometry, Open-Meteo for monthly climate normals, OpenTopoData SRTM 30m for elevation, EU Weekly Oil Bulletin for cross-border fuel-price bands, and Open Charge Map for EV charging stations. See our methodology for refresh cadence and limitations.