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A31 Pewsum: roadworks, closures, traffic now

At Pewsum junction on the A31, reported now: 2 closures (as of 20:20).

Traffic light for the A31

Traffic light: RedRedYellowGreen

Red — Full closure · Leer → Emden

For your choice on the A31.

  1. Full closure · Leer → Emden · Verkehrsdaten: Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
  2. Entry or exit closed · Verkehrsdaten: Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
How the traffic light is set
  • Red for a full closure of the carriageway, a wrong-way driver, objects, people or animals on the road, an accident with a closure, a weather warning of level 3–4 or a jam with a delay of 30 minutes or more.
  • Yellow for a shorter jam, roadworks narrowing the road, another traffic warning, a weather warning of level 1–2, slippery roads in the road-weather forecast, a closed entry or exit — or when a source is missing or out of date.
  • Green only when none of this is reported and the Autobahn GmbH reports, the Deutscher Wetterdienst warnings and, for every state in the area, a police source of its own are current. Green is no guarantee of a clear road.
  • With your position, everything within the chosen radius along the motorway that lies ahead of you in the chosen direction counts; what lies behind you or on the other carriageway does not. More than 2.0 km away from the motorway, it is counted from the nearest junction.
  • Read: the Autobahn GmbH (closures, jams, traffic warnings, roadworks), police and state traffic messages (for the states we hold a source of their own for), the bridge states in Schleswig-Holstein and the Deutscher Wetterdienst (warnings, road weather).
  • No colour from: detours, border crossings, lorry networks, parking and charging. A state with no current police source of its own keeps the light at yellow.

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    Reported now

    3 closures · 0 jams · 9 roadworks live ·

    By direction

    • Emden → Leer: 0 closures · 0 jams · 3 roadworks
    • Gronau → Meppen: 0 closures · 0 jams · 1 roadworks
    • Leer → Emden: 1 closure · 0 jams · 3 roadworks
    • Meppen → Gronau: 0 closures · 0 jams · 2 roadworks
    • no direction given: 3 closures · 0 jams · 0 roadworks

    Traffic state at 25 measuring sites (NRW, as of 20:12): 25 free-flowing.

    Stretch and direction

    Direction:

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    Whole motorway

    Shown: from Pewsum junction to Pewsum junction

    Map

    Schematic map of the A31The A31 from Bottrop to Emden-West, drawn schematically through its junctions, with the reported closures, roadworks and jams.Nordrhein-WestfalenMünsterGelsenkirchenHammOldenburg (Oldb)OsnabrückHerneRecklinghausenGütersloh
    • Junction or interchange
    • Closure

    Schematic: the line joins the points of the Location Code List in their order – not to scale, not a navigation map. Where the list has a gap, the line breaks too.

    Map sources

    Kartengrundlage: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf (Daten verändert)

    TMC Location Code List (LCL 22.0): Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt), CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), bearbeitet · licence text

    Verkehrsdaten: Autobahn GmbH des Bundes

    Verwaltungseinheiten: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_gn250.pdf (Daten verändert)

    Closures, jams and roadworks on the A31

    Closures

    2 entrieslive ·
    • at Riepe junction (6) · near Ihlow · Lower Saxony (placed by ViaFrei)direction unknownWed 16 Sept, 13:00 – Sun 8 Nov, 18:00 · in force now, ends in 13 daysJunction closed (entry or exit)Traffic reportMap 1 · Google Maps · Map 2 · Google Maps2 identical reports
    • at Pewsum junction (2) · near Emden · Lower Saxony (placed by ViaFrei)towards EmdenMon 19 Oct, 12:00 – Fri 20 Nov, 18:00 · in force now, ends in 25 daysCarriageway closedTraffic reportMap · Google Maps

    Lorry networks

    reference data ·

    What the Länder's lorry databases record on or right at this motorway, each publisher on its own.

    • NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS): lorry priority network on 64 sections of this motorway (3 routes)
    • at Bottrop interchange (42) · near Bottrop · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Bottrop-Kirchhellen junction (40) · near Gladbeck · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Bottrop-Feldhausen junction (39) · near Dorsten · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Reken junction (35) · near Reken · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Ochtrup-Nord junction (29) · near Ochtrup · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps

    Fuel

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    Towns along the route

    18 entriesreference data ·
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    Municipalities within 15 km (large city), 8.0 km (medium-sized town) or 3.0 km (others) in a straight line of an exit, each listed once at its nearest exit.

    Nothing reported:

    Jams
    live ·

    none

    Weather warnings (DWD)
    live ·

    No official warning along the motorway.

    Roadworks
    live ·

    none

    Planned closures
    live ·

    Planned full closures, next 7 days

    Autobahn GmbH announces no full closure on this motorway for the next 7 days (as of 20:20).

    Interchanges and connected motorways
    live ·
    Detours
    live ·

    Signed detours are shown here for North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Hamburg. We also hold Schleswig-Holstein's detour routes, but they are not tied to a motorway. Detours give the traffic light no colour.

    Police and Land messages
    live · stale · Verkehrsmanagementzentrale Bremen ·

    No police or state traffic message on the A31 in the sources we read.

    We read current police and state traffic messages here for: North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony.

    Parking
    live · stale · ENMO GmbH & Co.KG (Trucklounge Ecopark) ·

    We hold no car park here.

    Charging
    live · stale · ENIO GmbH · stale · Audi AG (Audi charging hub) · stale · Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH · +2

    Charging stations within 600 m of the junctions and service areas. Charging stations read 20:18; each point's status with its own time.

    We hold no charging station here.

    Bridges
    live ·

    We hold bridge states for Schleswig-Holstein only (three bridges); elsewhere the traffic light says nothing about bridges.

    Border crossings
    reference data ·

    Border crossings: Brandenburg only — with no word on whether a crossing is open or how long the wait is.

    Some stretches are described in German only; the German page shows them.

    Route

    reference data · data as of LCL 22.0

    From Bottrop interchange to Emden-West junction · 42 junctions and interchanges

    about 236 km along the points of the Location Code List (schematic)

    Through North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony (state by the nearest municipality of each junction)

    Junction strip

    The junctions in their order, with what is reported at each.

    1. from here Lower Saxony 2 Pewsum junction 1 closure · Map · Google Maps

    On every motorway

    Lorry driving ban

    On Sundays and public holidays, lorries over 7.5 t and lorries with trailers may not drive between 00:00 and 22:00. (§ 30 Abs. 3 StVO)

    Next ban day: Saturday 31 October (Reformation Day).

    The motorway's states by the nearest municipality of each junction. Holidays per § 30 Abs. 4 StVO, reviewed 8 October 2026 · Informational, not legal advice.

    • On the Autobahn there is no general speed limit where no sign says otherwise; the advisory speed is 130 km/h. Drive faster and you can share liability in a crash. (Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-V)
    • Rescue lane: as soon as traffic slows on a motorway or rural road with at least two lanes per direction, keep a lane free between the leftmost lane and the one beside it — immediately, not once the blue lights arrive. (§ 11 Abs. 2 StVO)
    • 112 reaches ambulance and fire service (Europe-wide), 110 the police — free from any network, credit or not. (Notrufverordnung (NotrufV))

    Reviewed 19 September 2026 · Informational, not legal advice.

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