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A42 motorway now
The A42 runs from Kamp-Lintfort interchange to Dortmund-Bodelschwingh junction, about 56 km long (schematic), through North Rhine-Westphalia, with 28 junctions and interchanges (6 of them interchanges). Reported on the A42 now: 5 closures, 0 jams, 1 warning, 26 roadworks (as of 08:04).
Reported now
5 closures · 0 jams · 1 warning · 26 roadworks · as of 08:04
By direction
- Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort: 0 closures · 0 jams · 11 roadworks
- Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund: 0 closures · 0 jams · 7 roadworks
- no direction given: 5 closures · 0 jams · 8 roadworks
Traffic state at 50 measuring sites (NRW, as of 08:00): 1 standstill, 9 slow, 2 heavy, 38 free-flowing; standstill or slow near Herne-Crange, Bottrop-Süd, Duisburg-Neumühl.
Map
- Junction or interchange
- Closure
- Roadworks
- Service area or lorry park
- Road-weather station
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
Quelle: Deutscher Wetterdienst. Datenquelle: BMVBS und Straßenbauverwaltungen der Länder · licence text Die Daten der Glättemeldeanlagen stellen ungeprüfte Punktmessungen dar und spiegeln nicht die Verhältnisse auf einem Straßenabschnitt wider. Es besteht kein Anspruch auf regelmäßige und vollständige Datenlieferungen.
Closures, jams and roadworks on the A42
Closures
Jams
none
Other warnings
- Warning · Lusebrink - Castrop-Rauxel-Ost · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
Roadworks
- Roadworks · Map · 4 identical reports
- Roadworks · Bottrop-Süd - Essen-Altenessen · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
- Roadworks · Bottrop-Süd - Essen-Nord · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map · 2 identical reports
- Roadworks · Bottrop-Süd - Oberhausen-Zentrum · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Duisburg-Beeck - Duisburg-Nord · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
- Roadworks · Essen-Altenessen - Bottrop-Süd · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Essen-Altenessen - Essen-Nord · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Essen-Nord - Bottrop-Süd · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map · 4 identical reports
- Roadworks · Herne-Crange - Herne · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
- Roadworks · Herne-Crange - Herne-Baukau · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
- Roadworks · Herne - Herne-Crange · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Herne-Horsthausen - Herne-Baukau · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Herne-Horsthausen - Herne-Crange · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map
- Roadworks · Map
- Roadworks · Dortmund → Kamp-Lintfort · Map · 2 identical reports
- Roadworks · Oberhausen Neue Mitte - Essen-Nord · Kamp-Lintfort → Dortmund · Map
- Roadworks · Map · 2 identical reports
Planned full closures, next 7 days
Autobahn GmbH announces no full closure on this motorway for the next 7 days (as of 08:04).
Some stretches are described in German only; the German page shows them.
Route
From Kamp-Lintfort interchange to Dortmund-Bodelschwingh junction · 28 junctions and interchanges
about 56 km along the points of the Location Code List (schematic)
Through North Rhine-Westphalia (state by the nearest municipality of each junction)
Junction strip
The junctions in their order, with what is reported at each.
- 1 Kamp-Lintfort interchange meets A57
- 2 Moers-Nord junction road weather
- 3 Duisburg-Baerl junction road weather
- 4 Duisburg-Beeckerwerth junction
- 5 Duisburg-Beeck junction 1 roadworks · parking
- 6 Duisburg-Nord interchange meets A59 parking
- 7 Duisburg-Neumühl junction
- 8 Oberhausen-West interchange meets A3
- 9 Oberhausen-Buschhausen junction
- 10 Oberhausen-Zentrum junction parking
- 11 Oberhausen Neue Mitte junction 1 roadworks · parking · road weather
- 12 Bottrop-Süd junction 3 roadworks · parking
- 13 Essen-Nord interchange 1 closure · 4 roadworks · parking
- 14 Essen-Altenessen junction 1 roadworks · parking
- 15 Gelsenkirchen-Heßler junction
- 16 Gelsenkirchen-Zentrum junction
- 17 Gelsenkirchen-Schalke junction parking
- 18 Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck junction parking
- 19 Herne-Wanne junction
- 20 Herne-Crange junction 2 roadworks · parking
- 21 Herne interchange meets A43 1 closure · 2 roadworks · road weather
- 22 Herne-Baukau junction 3 roadworks · parking
- 23 Herne-Horsthausen junction parking
- 24 Herne-Börnig junction parking · road weather
- 25 Castrop-Rauxel-Bladenhorst junction parking
- 26 Castrop-Rauxel junction parking
- 27 Castrop-Rauxel-Ost interchange meets A45
- 27 Dortmund-Bodelschwingh junction parking
Places on the A42
Parking and rest
Lorry parks and service areas
- Lorry parking · Holthauser Bruch (Süd) · 75 spaces · 42 lorry spaces · at Herne-Börnig junction
- Lorry parking · Lusebrink (Nord) · 87 spaces · 42 lorry spaces · at Herne-Börnig junction
Car parks
- Park and ride · Bottrop Hbf · at Bottrop-Süd junction
- Park and ride · Bottrop-Süd (Plankenschemm) · at Bottrop-Süd junction
- Park and ride · Gelsenkirchen Zoo Bf · at Gelsenkirchen-Schalke junction
- Park and ride · HER Wanne-Eickel Hbf · at Herne-Crange junction
- Park and ride · Herne Bf · at Herne-Baukau junction
- Park and ride · Castrop-Rauxel Süd Bf · at Castrop-Rauxel junction
- Park and ride · Dortmund Nette/Oestrich · at Dortmund-Bodelschwingh junction
Verkehrsdaten: Autobahn GmbH des Bundes
Park&Ride-Anlagen: VRR AöR via opendata-oepnv.de, CC BY, bearbeitet · licence text
P+R sites from P+R NRW (CC BY-SA), held separately — not cross-checked with the entries above
- Park and ride · OLGA-Park, Werthfeldstr. · occupancy not carried by us · 600 m · Map
- Park and ride · Bottrop Hbf · occupancy not carried by us · 500 m · Map
- Park and ride · Bottrop-Süd (Plankenschemm) · occupancy not carried by us · 50 m · Map
- Park and ride · P & R Standort Bottrop Hbf · occupancy not carried by us · 700 m · Map
- Park and ride · P & R Standort Bottrop-Süd · occupancy not carried by us · 50 m · Map
- Park and ride · Gelsenkirchen Zoo Bf · occupancy not carried by us · 1.1 km · Map
- Park and ride · Heinz-Rühmann-Platz · occupancy not carried by us · 1.1 km · Map
- Park and ride · HER Wanne-Eickel Hbf · occupancy not carried by us · 1.1 km · Map
- Park and ride · Herner Straße · occupancy not carried by us · 1.0 km · Map
- Park and ride · Dammstraße · occupancy not carried by us · 850 m · Map
- Park and ride · Herne Bf · occupancy not carried by us · 800 m · Map
- Park and ride · Karl-Brandt-Weg · occupancy not carried by us · 450 m · Map
- Park and ride · Castrop-Rauxel Süd Bf · occupancy not carried by us · 1.3 km · Map
- Park and ride · Dortmund Nette/Oestrich · occupancy not carried by us · 1.2 km · Map
P+R NRW: NRW.Mobidrom via Mobilithek, Datensatz „Gebündelte Daten Park+Ride NRW“, CC BY-SA, bearbeitet · licence text
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More car parks mapped by OpenStreetMap
- P₁₁₇ · at Duisburg-Beeck junction · 700 m
- P₁₁₈ · at Duisburg-Beeck junction · 550 m
- Parkplatz 105 · at Duisburg-Beeck junction · 800 m
- IKEA · at Duisburg-Nord interchange · 350 m
- P10 · at Oberhausen-Zentrum junction · 650 m
- P11 · at Oberhausen-Zentrum junction · 800 m
- P9 · at Oberhausen-Zentrum junction · 700 m
- P3 · at Oberhausen Neue Mitte junction · 700 m
- P4 · at Oberhausen Neue Mitte junction · 900 m
- Parkhaus Aquapark Zum Aquarium 5 · at Oberhausen Neue Mitte junction · 550 m
- Parkplatz Hundeverein · at Bottrop-Süd junction · 850 m
- A.T.U · at Essen-Nord interchange · 900 m
- A.T.U · at Essen-Altenessen junction · 600 m
- Emscherpark · at Essen-Altenessen junction · 900 m
- Kleingartenverein Altenessen e.V. · at Essen-Altenessen junction · 850 m
- ZOOM P3 · at Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck junction · 750 m
- DB InfraGO AG · at Herne-Crange junction · 950 m
- Parkhaus Neue Höfe Poststraße 22 · at Herne-Baukau junction · 850 m
- TRAVIS Truck Parking · at Herne-Horsthausen junction · 900 m
- Drippe Ulf Gärtnerei · at Castrop-Rauxel-Bladenhorst junction · 900 m
- Zweirad Schmitz GmbH · at Castrop-Rauxel junction · 900 m
OSM-Standortdaten: © OpenStreetMap-Mitwirkende, ODbL 1.0 · licence text
These entries come from our database derived from OpenStreetMap. We send a complete machine-readable copy (CSV) under the ODbL 1.0 free of charge on request – contact details in the imprint.
Charging
This motorway's charging stations are being read – they will be here on your next visit.
Weather along the motorway
Official warnings of the Deutscher Wetterdienst
No official warning along the motorway.
Road-surface forecast
DWD road-surface forecast for the nearest road-weather stations — a model forecast (run 07:00), not a measurement and not an official warning
- Moers Nord · at Moers-Nord junction · 09:00: dry, road surface 11.5 °C
- Baerl · at Duisburg-Baerl junction · 09:00: dry, road surface 11.5 °C
- OB-Neue-Mitte · at Oberhausen Neue Mitte junction · 09:00: dry, road surface 11.4 °C
- Hochlarmark · at Herne interchange · 09:00: dry, road surface 11.1 °C
- Herne · at Herne-Börnig junction · 09:00: dry, road surface 11.1 °C
Each line is for the station's own location, not for the whole road.
Quelle: Deutscher Wetterdienst. Datenquelle: BMVBS und Straßenbauverwaltungen der Länder · licence text Die Daten der Glättemeldeanlagen stellen ungeprüfte Punktmessungen dar und spiegeln nicht die Verhältnisse auf einem Straßenabschnitt wider. Es besteht kein Anspruch auf regelmäßige und vollständige Datenlieferungen.
Fuel prices
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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: Sunday 25 October.
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.