Speed limits in Europe: default limits, OpenStreetMap coverage and cameras per country ====================================================================================== Default speed limits for cars in 32 European countries with a source URL per row, the share of road segments with a maxspeed tag in OpenStreetMap for six road classes, and enforcement camera counts from the MapAtlas Camera Index. Article: https://mapatlas.eu/blog/speed-limits-europe Data date: 2026-09-29 Rows: 32 (one per country) Files ----- speed-limits-europe-2026-09-29.csv (UTF-8, comma separated, header row, empty cell = no value) Columns ------- country_iso ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code country Country name in English limit_urban_kmh Default limit for cars in built-up areas, km/h (United Kingdom: 30 mph converted) limit_rural_kmh Default limit outside built-up areas, km/h limit_motorway_kmh Default motorway limit, km/h; empty when there is none or none is listed (see limit_motorway_status) limit_motorway_status number | no_general_limit (Germany, 130 recommended) | not_listed limit_note Conditions one number cannot hold, in our words limit_source_url Source of the default limits limit_source_last_checked Last-checked date shown on the source page (dd/mm/yyyy), where given osm_motorway_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=motorway in the Geofabrik country extract osm_motorway_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_motorway_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=motorway ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_trunk_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=trunk in the Geofabrik country extract osm_trunk_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_trunk_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=trunk ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_primary_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=primary in the Geofabrik country extract osm_primary_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_primary_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=primary ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_secondary_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=secondary in the Geofabrik country extract osm_secondary_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_secondary_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=secondary ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_tertiary_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=tertiary in the Geofabrik country extract osm_tertiary_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_tertiary_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=tertiary ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_residential_ways OpenStreetMap ways tagged highway=residential in the Geofabrik country extract osm_residential_ways_with_maxspeed Of those, ways with any maxspeed tag osm_residential_maxspeed_share_pct Share of highway=residential ways with a maxspeed tag, percent osm_motorway_maxspeed_none_ways Motorway ways tagged maxspeed=none osm_data_until Geofabrik taginfo data timestamp (UTC) camera_index_cameras_2024_05_21 Enforcement cameras in the MapAtlas Camera Index, snapshot 2024-05-21 (count only) camera_index_fixed_point Of which fixed speed cameras camera_index_red_light Of which red light cameras camera_index_average_speed Of which average speed camera points camera_index_variable_limit Of which variable limit cameras land_area_km2 Land area from Natural Earth 1:10m polygons, without overseas territories and Svalbard cameras_per_1000_km2 camera_index_cameras_2024_05_21 per 1,000 km² of land data_date Date the limits were fetched and the table was built Sources ------- - European Commission, Your Europe, driving abroad country pages (per-row URL) - GOV.UK speed limits: https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits; KGM (Turkey): https://www.kgm.gov.tr/Sayfalar/KGM/SiteTr/Trafik/HizSinirlari.aspx - Geofabrik taginfo per country extract: https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/ - MapAtlas Camera Index: MapAtlas Camera Index / MapMetrics driver reports, snapshot 2024-05-21 (https://mapatlas.eu/camera-index) - Natural Earth 1:10m admin-0 (public domain) Licence ------- - limit_* columns: facts with a source URL in each row, compiled by MapAtlas, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). - osm_* columns: derived from OpenStreetMap, ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), © OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright). - camera_index_*, land_area_km2 and cameras_per_1000_km2: MapAtlas, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Counts only; camera locations are not published. How to cite ----------- MapAtlas (2026). Speed limits in Europe: default limits, OpenStreetMap coverage and cameras per country. https://mapatlas.eu/blog/speed-limits-europe (data date 2026-09-29). Built by scripts/data/build-blog-datasets.mjs from the research file(s) listed in the article.