🇫🇷 Cross-border drive · France → Austria 🇦🇹
Driving from Chaumont to Innsbruck
- Drive time
- 7h 46m
- Distance
- 624 km
- Same day?
- Yes, doable
- under 8 h
- Fuel cost
- ≈ €91
- petrol · diesel ≈ €77
- Tolls
- ≈ €70
- mixed
- EV charging
- Plenty fast
- 25 of 95 ≥50 kW
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Route map
Route options
Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.
Avoids motorways
+2h 18m- Distance:
- 623 km (−2 km)
- Duration:
- 10h 5m
Via: B 31 · B 31n · D 417 · B179
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.
7h 46m
624 km · €91 fuel
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Not realistic
624 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.
No direct service
Our coach data (FlixBus + BlaBlaCar) doesn't list a direct service for this pair. National operators (e.g., National Express in the UK, Eurolines feeders) may still cover it — check their site directly.
9h 28m
SNCF VOYAGEURS · Trains Express Régionaux
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Trip plan
How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.
Consider splitting over two days
Technically a one-day drive, but it is a slog. Splitting overnight halfway makes it a much better trip and lets you see the middle, not just the endpoints.
A natural overnight stop near the halfway point: Winterthur (ch).
- Distance:
- 624 km
- Duration:
- 7h 46m (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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Luxeuil-les-Bains 🇫🇷 fr
≈125 km≈ 10.3 km detour from the main route
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Huningue 🇫🇷 fr
≈250 km≈ 2.8 km detour from the main route
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Frauenfeld 🇨🇭 ch
≈375 km≈ 4.9 km detour from the main route
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Bludenz 🇦🇹 at
≈499 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 · FR → CH → AT
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.
Tolls on motorways in FR
Budget for motorway tolls — France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal charge per-km, Croatia and Greece by section. Contactless cards work almost everywhere; have one loaded.
Vignette required in CH / AT
Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania require a sticker or e-vignette for motorway use. Buy at the border — missing one is a heavy on-the-spot fine.
Long rural stretch on N 19
Plan for about 35 km of two-lane country roads. Slower than motorway, but often the pretty part — fewer overtakes after dark.
Long rural stretch on D 417
Plan for about 16 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
Order your Crit'Air sticker before the trip
Must knowParis, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille, Toulouse and a growing list of cities require a Crit'Air air-quality sticker visible on your windscreen — even for a single drive-through. It's €4.51 from the official site and ships by post (allow 2–6 weeks abroad). Without it, expect on-the-spot fines from €68. Your registration document tells the issuer your emission class.
Borders & documents
You're leaving the EU customs zone
Must knowSwitzerland is in Schengen but NOT in the EU customs union. Random customs stops happen at every border. Personal allowance: €300 in goods (CHF cash equivalent), 5L wine, 1L spirits. Above that you declare and pay duty. If you've loaded the boot with cured meat or cheese in Italy, declare it — confiscation is routine.
Tolls, vignettes & road payment
Digital vignette before crossing the border
Must knowAustrian motorways need a vignette — €10.10 for 10 days, €30.40 for 2 months, or €103.80 annual. The digital version (linked to your plate) is bought online at asfinag.at and activates from a chosen date — if you buy on the Austrian side of the border, it's only valid 18 days later under consumer-protection rules. Buy ahead.
Mont Blanc, Grand St Bernard, San Bernardino tunnels charge extra
Must knowThe vignette covers most motorways but NOT the major Alpine road tunnels. Mont Blanc tunnel (FR-IT) is roughly €54 one-way for a passenger car, Grand St Bernard about €33, San Bernardino is included in the vignette but Gotthard road tunnel is a vignette-only route in summer (the queue can be 2 hours; the rail-shuttle alternative through the Lötschberg is faster).
Vignette is annual only — CHF 40
Must knowSwitzerland sells one vignette: an annual sticker (or e-vignette) for CHF 40 / about €42. There's no 10-day option. Buy at any border post or online before you leave. The sticker must be physically affixed to the windscreen — keeping it loose in the glovebox earns the same CHF 200 fine as not having one.
You'll hit three different toll systems on this trip
Must knowThis route crosses countries with mismatched toll mechanics — France's ticket-and-pay, vignette stickers, electronic-only stretches. There's no single transponder that works everywhere, but a Telepass EU device covers FR/IT/ES/PT and a Bip&Go covers the same plus a few more. For a one-off trip, contactless cards plus a Swiss vignette and Austrian e-vignette is the simplest mix.
Brenner, Tauern and Karawanken tunnels are extra
UsefulEight Austrian routes charge separate tolls on top of the vignette: Brenner (A13, ~€11.50), Pyhrn (A9, ~€6.50), Tauern (A10, ~€14), Karawanken (A11, ~€8.50) and others. Pay at the booth — no vignette discount. If you're heading south to Italy via the A13, budget for it.
Contactless works at every autoroute booth
UsefulFrench autoroutes use a ticket system: take a card on entry, pay on exit. Every barrier accepts contactless tap-to-pay — pull into the "CB / bank card" lane (orange "t" logo means Liber-T transponder only, avoid those). For frequent EU travellers a Bip&Go transponder pays itself off in two trips by skipping the queue.
What your car must carry
Hi-vis vest in the cabin, triangle in the boot
Must knowA reflective vest must be reachable without leaving the vehicle (in the door pocket or under your seat — boot is too late). One warning triangle is also mandatory. The 2012 breathalyzer rule was scrapped in 2020 but is still nice to keep. No spare-bulb requirement.
Driving rules & habits
Priorité à droite still applies in towns
UsefulOn urban streets without signs, traffic from your right has priority — even from a side street that looks subordinate. Outside cities the rule is mostly retired, but in residential French villages it survives. Slow at every right-hand junction unless a yellow diamond on your road tells you you're on the priority road.
Plan your stops, not just your finish time
UsefulOSRM gives you free-flow drive time. Realistic add: 10% on motorway-heavy routes, 25% if you're crossing two cities. Eat at off-peak hours (11:30 lunch, 18:00 dinner) — service-area queues at noon kill 20 minutes. EU fatigue research is consistent: 15-minute break every 2 hours, full 45-minute break before 6 hours. The drive between hours 7 and 9 is where avoidable accidents cluster.
Fuel stations
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.
Smaller stations close on Sundays
TipMotorway service areas (aires) run 24/7 with a fuel-price premium of about €0.15/L. Off-motorway stations in towns under 20k people often close Sunday afternoons and overnight Mon–Sat. If you're fuelling on a Sunday route, plan around motorway stops — supermarket pumps (Carrefour, E.Leclerc) are your cheapest option but typically 9:00–12:30 / 14:30–19:00 on a Sunday, where open at all.
Money & connectivity
CHF dominant, EUR widely accepted with a markup
UsefulSwiss francs are the only legal tender, but most petrol stations, motorway services and tourist hotels accept EUR — at a deliberately bad rate (you'll lose 5–10%). For a transit drive, use a contactless card and ignore EUR; for an overnight, withdraw a small amount of CHF for parking meters and small shops.
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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A1 —93 km
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D 417 Avenue de l'Europe91 km
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A12 Inntal Autobahn66 km
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A 36 La Comtoise59 km
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S16 Arlberg Schnellstraße53 km
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A3 —45 km
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A14 Rheintal/Walgau Autobahn38 km
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N 19 —35 km
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A1; A4 —28 km
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D 64 —20 km
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A 5 —20 km
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A 98 —15 km
Route character
How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.
Mixed motorway + secondary — varied pace, some scenic stretches.
- Motorway
- 62%
- Secondary
- 37%
- Other / rural
- 1%
Drive difficulty
At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?
Overall
Demanding
Tough drive — multiple complicating factors compound fatigue. Strongly recommend splitting across days.
- Long drive: 7h 46m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.
- Cross-border: fr → at. Keep documents accessible and check border rules.
- About 187 km on non-motorway roads where speeds and conditions vary.
Elevation profile
Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.
- Lowest point
- 230 m
- Highest point
- 1,519 m
- Total ascent
- ↑ 2,176 m
- Total descent
- ↓ 1,912 m
Fuel & tolls
Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.
Petrol (RON 95)
≈ €91
46.8 L × €1.95 / L · 7.5 L/100 km
Diesel
≈ €77
37.5 L × €2.06 / L · 6 L/100 km
Electric (DC fast)
≈ €67
109 kWh × €0.62 / kWh · 17.5 kWh/100 km
Public DC fast charging — slower AC charging at home or hotels typically costs about half.
Motorway tolls & vignettes
≈ €70
- FR — €0.10/km on the motorway network (≈ 182 km in-country ≈ €18)
- CH — Vignette (motorway sticker / e-vignette) — €42.00 for 365 days
- AT — Vignette (motorway sticker / e-vignette) — €10.10 for 10 days Annual vignette is €103.80 if you drive often
Prices last refreshed 2026-08-03.
Fuel and EV charging along the route
Stations within a few kilometres of the road, sampled at evenly-spaced waypoints.
EV charging
25 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).
Fastest first
- Ionity Bessoncourt — Bessoncourt 350 kW
- IONITY Kemptthal — Kemptthal 350 kW
- IONITY Hohenems — Hohenems 350 kW
- Atlante - Bessoncourt - CCV Belfort — Bessoncourt 300 kW
- Atlante - Danjoutin - Gifi Belfort — Danjoutin 300 kW
- Kemptthal Supercharger — Kemptthal 250 kW
- PowerDot - Hôtel F1 - Chaumont — Chaumont 200 kW
- PowerDot - Ibis - Danjoutin — Danjoutin 200 kW
- Coop Diepoldsau — Diepoldsau 150 kW
- St Anton Supercharger — St. Anton am Arlberg, 150 kW
- Mitterweg — Innsbruck 150 kW
- Pratteln Supercharger — Pratteln 120 kW
Weather by month
Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.
🇫🇷 Chaumont
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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1°
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9°
2°
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12°
4°
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14°
5°
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18°
9°
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24°
14°
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24°
14°
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25°
15°
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21°
12°
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17°
9°
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10°
4°
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7°
2°
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| 105mm | 65mm | 89mm | 79mm | 75mm | 77mm | 85mm | 102mm | 104mm | 111mm | 108mm | 83mm |
hot mild cold
🇦🇹 Innsbruck
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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7°
-4°
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10°
-1°
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13°
3°
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16°
5°
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19°
9°
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25°
13°
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26°
15°
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27°
15°
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23°
12°
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18°
8°
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10°
1°
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7°
-1°
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| 63mm | 49mm | 117mm | 90mm | 182mm | 149mm | 156mm | 142mm | 167mm | 82mm | 95mm | 86mm |
hot mild cold
Next 5 days at Innsbruck
Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.
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Thu 13
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20° / 19°
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Fri 14
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32° / 17°
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Sat 15
⛅
32° / 17°
4.6mm
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Sun 16
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25° / 18°
8.7mm
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Mon 17
🌧️
19° / 17°
11.2mm
Forecast: MET Norway
Directions
Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.
Show all 56 manoeuvres
- Place des Droits de l'Homme 0.1 km
- Avenue Marie et Georges Debernardi (D 674)
- (D 417)
- (D 417) 16 km
- (D 417)
- (D 417) 11 km
- Avenue de l'Arcombelle (D 417)
- Avenue de l'Europe (D 417) 4 km
- (D 417) 16 km
- Avenue de la Gare (D 417) 4 km
- Route de Fresnes (D 417) 3 km
- Route de Châtillon (D 417) 14 km
- Faubourg Louis Boulanger (D 417) 8 km
- Rue du Général Marcot (D 417) 3 km
- Route de Saint-Loup (D 417) 9 km
- (D 417)
- (D 417) 3 km
- (D 64)
- (D 64) 2 km
- (D 64)
- (D 64) 6 km
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- (N 57) 10 km
- (D 64)
- (D 64) 12 km
- (D 64)
- (N 19)
- (N 19) 35 km
- — 0.2 km
- La Comtoise (A 36) 59 km
- — 0.4 km
- (A 5) 20 km
- (A 98) 15 km
- (A 861) 4 km
- (A3) 45 km
- (A1; A3) 13 km
- (A1; A3) 0.3 km
- (A1) 12 km
- (A1; A4) 0.5 km
- (A1; A4) 5 km
- (A1; A4) 24 km
- (A1) 57 km
- (A1) 24 km
- Diepoldsauerstrasse (445) 0.1 km
- Hohenemserstrasse
- —
- — 0.5 km
- Rheintal/Walgau Autobahn (A14) 38 km
- Arlberg Schnellstraße (S16) 8 km
- Arlberg Schnellstraße (S16) 14 km
- Arlbergtunnel (S16) 15 km
- Arlberg Schnellstraße (S16) 5 km
- Arlberg Schnellstraße (S16) 7 km
- Perjentunnel (S16) 3 km
- Inntal Autobahn (A12) 66 km
- Maximilianstraße
By train from Chaumont to Innsbruck
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
- 9h 28m
- 3 changes
- Lead operator
- SNCF VOYAGEURS
- + 3 more
- Alternatives
- 6
- Itineraries returned by the planner.
Trains on the fastest itinerary
- C13
- 612B
- NJ 13487
All operators across alternatives
- SNCF VOYAGEURS
- Trains Express Régionaux
- OEBB Personenverkehr AG Kundenservice
- Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB
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.