The A8 crosses southern Germany in East-West-direction.
Coming from Luxemburg, it passes Saarbrücken, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, Munich, Rosenheim and splits into the Austrian motorways A1 and A10 in Salzburg.
The A8 is crossing the A5 next to Karlsruhe and the A81 south of Stuttgart
There is a gap between Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe.
Hitchhiking the A8
- Border to Luxembourg
(2) Perl-Besch- (3) Perl-Borg
- (4) Merzig-Wellingen
- (5) Merzig-Schwemlingen
- (6) Merzig
- (7) Rehlingen
- (8) Dillingen-Mitte
(9) Dreieck Saarlouis- (10) Dillingen-Süd
- (11) Saarlouis-Steinrausch
- (12) Nalbach/Saarwellingen-Industriegebiete
- (13) Saarwellingen-Mitte
- (14) Schwalbach
- (15) Schwalbach/Schwarzenholz
- (16) Heusweiler
- (17) Kreuz Saarbrücken
- (18) Merchweiler
- (19) Friedrichsthal-Bildstock
- (20) Dreieck Friedrichsthal
- (21) Elversberg
- (22) Neunkirchen-Heinitz
- (23) Neunkirchen/Spiesen
- (24) Neunkirchen-Oberstadt
- (25) Neunkirchen-Wellesweiler
- (26) Neunkirchen-Kohlhof
- (27) Kreuz Neunkirchen
- (28) Kirkel-Limbach
- Homburg-Schwarzenbach (planned, not finished yet)
- (30) Homburg-Einöd
- (31) Zweibrücken-Ernstweiler
- (32) Zweibrücken-Zentrum
- (33) Zweibrücken-Ixheim
- (34) Contwig
- (35) Walshausen
- (36) Pirmasens-Winzeln
- (-) Dreieck Pirmasens
- Naturpark Pfälzerwald - the motorway is gapped but the B10 leads through the gap and has 4 lanes most of the way
- (41) Dreieck Karlsruhe
- (42) Karlsbad
- (43) Pforzheim-West
- (44) Pforzheim-Nord
- (45a) Pforzheim-Ost
Raststätte Pforzheim- (45b) Pforzheim-Süd
- (46) Heimsheim
- (47) Rutesheim
- (48) Leonberg-West
- (49) Dreieck Leonberg
- (50) Leonberg-Ost
- Raststätte Sindelfinger Wald - only direction Munich
- (51) Kreuz Stuttgart
- (52a) Stuttgart-Möhringen
- (52) Stuttgart-Möhringen/Degerloch
- (52b) Stuttgart-Degerloch ("Echterdinger Ei")
- (53) Stuttgart-Flughafen
- Neuhausen (planned)
- (54) Esslingen
- Raststätte Denkendorf - only direction Stuttgart
- (55) Wendlingen
- (56) Kirchheim unter Teck-West
- (57) Kirchheim unter Teck-Ost
- (58) Aichelberg
- Raststätte Gruibingen
- verlegte AS Hohenstadt (planned)
- (59) Mühlhausen
- (60) Hohenstadt
- (61) Merklingen
- Raststätte Aichen - only direction Stuttgart
- (62) Ulm-West
- Ulm-Nord? (planned)
- (63) Ulm-Ost
- (64) Oberelchingen
- (65) Kreuz Ulm/Elchingen
- (66) Leipheim
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Raststätte / Motel Leipheim only direction Munich 
(good) - (67) Günzburg
- (Unter-)knöringen (planned)
- Raststätte Burgauer See - only direction Stuttgart (good)
- (69) Burgau
- (70) Zusmarshausen
- Raststätte Kleinraststätte Lüftenberg
- (71a) Adelsried
- Raststätte / Motel Edenbergen - only direction Munich
(bad) - (71b) Neusäß
- (72) Kreuz Augsburg-West
- Raststätte Augsburg - only direction Stuttgart
(average) to (bad) - (73a) Kreuz Augsburg-Ost
- (73b) Friedberg (Bayern)
- (74) Dasing
- (75) Adelzhausen
- (76) Odelzhausen
- (77) Sulzemoos
- (78) Dachau/Fürstenfeldbruck
- (79) Dreieck München-Eschenried
- (80) München-Langwied
- (81) Kreuz München-West
- (82) München-Obermenzing
- End of the motorway - road leads through Munich but it is possible to go around via the A99
- Motorway starts again
- (91) München-Ramersdorf
- (92a) München-Perlach
- (92b) Neubiberg
- (93) Unterhaching-Ost
- (94) Taufkirchen-Ost
- (95) Kreuz München-Süd
- Raststätte Hofoldinger Forst
- (96) Hofoldinger Forst
- Raststätte Holzkirchen only direction Salzburg
- (97) Holzkirchen
- Raststätte Holzkirchen only direction Munich
- (98) Weyarn
- (99) Irschenberg
- Raststätte / Motel Irschenberg - only direction Salzburg (good)
- (100) Bad Aibling
- Kolbermoor (planned)
- Rosenheim-West (planned)
- (101) Dreieck Inntal
- (102) Rosenheim
- (103) Rohrdorf
- Raststätte Samerberg
- (104) Achenmühle
- (105) Frasdorf
- (106) Bernau am Chiemsee
- Raststätte Chiemsee (closed for trucks) - only direction Munich
- (107) Felden
- (108) Übersee
- (109) Grabenstätt
- Raststätte Hochfelln
- (110) Bergen
- (111) Schweinbach
- (112) Traunstein/Siegsdorf
- (113) Teisendorf-Neukirchen
- (114) Anger (Behelfsanschlussstelle)
- (115) Bad Reichenhall/Piding
- Tankstelle Bad Reichenhall (average)
- Walserberg (no off-ramp)
- Border to Austria
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