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There are '''good times''' and less good times to hitchhike. Naturally [[hitchhiking at night]] should be discouraged to anyone [[first timehitchhiking|new to hitchhiking]]. But there is more to say.

==Days of the week==

'''Sunday''' morning until noon seems the worst time to hitchhike in [[Europe]], and many other parts of the "developed" world influenced by Christianity (the [[United States of America|US]], [[Australia|Oz]], [[New Zealand|Kiwiland]] and [[Canada|Canadialand]] come to mind). Cars are full of families, with a possibly one grumpy wife person on the side and not too many working people on the road. It usually gets better in the afternoon, when people are driving back from their weekend trip alone. Sundays during extended weekends due to religious holidays (e.g. Easter) are even worst, worse; make sure to start early enough and reach your destination way before the evening hours, or you'll be stuck by extremely low traffic, esp. along German highways. On the other hand, on Sunday afternoon and early evening it is possible to catch fast & long lifts since many people visit their family, wife, husband boy/girlfriend who live far away during the weekend and have to return for work on Monday morning.

In a lot of [[Europe|European]] an countries, most of the [[hitchhiking a truck|trucks ]] are not allowed on the highways on Sundays until 1022:00 pm. They too are a hitchhiker-fond crowd. Sometimes. However, they all leaving their places at exactly 1022:00 pm. So, if you stuck late on a big service area, you can see them as a ''get-home-insurance''. It's surely not a problem to find a truck to any destination if you start asking around at around 921:30 pm. ==Time of the year==In general, because of the length of the days and the cold [[Winter]] is bad, Autumn is also not that great, especially late Autumn. Spring and Summer are best, especially around the longest day, 21st of June (in the Northern hemisphere of course).