License-free car routes in France

Browse more than 3,518 routes built for license-free cars. Every trip leaves out motorways and expressways, with times worked out at the real speed of a light quadricycle.

45 km/h

realistic speed used for the estimate

0 motorway

expressways left out

3,518+

license-free car trips in France

1,500 €

fine avoided on a banned road

Most popular routes

Marseille → Nice Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
159 km 3h 59min
Marseille → Montpellier Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur → Occitanie
125 km 3h 8min
Montpellier → Toulouse Occitanie
196 km 4h 54min
Nantes → Rennes Pays de la Loire → Bretagne
100 km 2h 30min
Paris → Reims Île-de-France → Grand Est
126 km 3h 9min
Lille → Reims Hauts-de-France → Grand Est
166 km 4h 9min
Lyon → Saint-Étienne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
50 km 1h 15min
Le Havre → Paris Normandie → Île-de-France
178 km 4h 27min
Marseille → Toulon Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
49 km 1h 14min
Nice → Toulon Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
126 km 3h 9min
Montpellier → Toulon Occitanie → Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
174 km 4h 21min
Dijon → Lyon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté → Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
174 km 4h 21min
Grenoble → Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
94 km 2h 21min
Grenoble → Saint-Étienne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
108 km 2h 42min
Angers → Nantes Pays de la Loire
80 km 2h
Angers → Rennes Pays de la Loire → Bretagne
109 km 2h 44min
Lyon → Villeurbanne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4 km 6 min
Saint-Étienne → Villeurbanne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
54 km 1h 21min
Grenoble → Villeurbanne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
92 km 2h 18min
Dijon → Villeurbanne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté → Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
173 km 4h 20min

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Routes by region

Île-de-France (598 routes)

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (526 routes)

Occitanie (478 routes)

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (377 routes)

Hauts-de-France (364 routes)

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (282 routes)

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (232 routes)

Grand Est (207 routes)

Centre-Val de Loire (166 routes)

Normandie (131 routes)

Pays de la Loire (104 routes)

Bretagne (38 routes)

Martinique (5 routes)

Guadeloupe (5 routes)

La Réunion (3 routes)

Corse (1 routes)

Guyane (1 routes)

All towns

Paris Marseille Lyon Toulouse Nice Nantes Montpellier Strasbourg Bordeaux Lille Rennes Reims Saint-Étienne Le Havre Toulon Dijon Grenoble Angers Villeurbanne Saint-Denis (La Réunion) Nîmes Clermont-Ferrand Le Mans Aix-en-Provence Brest Tours Amiens Limoges Annecy Perpignan Boulogne-Billancourt Metz Besançon Orléans Rouen Argenteuil Saint-Denis Montreuil Mulhouse Caen Nancy Roubaix Tourcoing Nanterre Vitry-sur-Seine Avignon Créteil Poitiers Dunkerque Aubervilliers Versailles Asnières-sur-Seine Aulnay-sous-Bois Colombes Saint-Pierre Courbevoie Rueil-Malmaison Pau Le Tampon La Rochelle Béziers Cherbourg-en-Cotentin Fort-de-France Champigny-sur-Marne Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Cannes Calais Ajaccio Antibes Saint-Nazaire Colmar Évry-Courcouronnes La Seyne-sur-Mer Vénissieux Bourges Cergy Valence Quimper Cayenne Montauban Troyes Chambéry Niort Sarcelles Lorient Hyères La Roche-sur-Yon Beauvais Narbonne Meaux Cholet Vannes Fréjus Saint-Quentin Laval Les Abymes Arles Sartrouville Bayonne Grasse Évreux Massy Albi Martigues Brive-la-Gaillarde Bastia Blois Charleville-Mézières Carcassonne Belfort Saint-Brieuc Saint-Priest Saint-Malo Saint-Germain-en-Laye Salon-de-Provence Chalon-sur-Saône Châlons-en-Champagne Sète Châteauroux Istres Caluire-et-Cuire Angoulême Tarbes Alès Bron Thionville Draguignan Melun Arras Castres Bourg-en-Bresse Compiègne Gap Le Lamentin Chartres Montluçon Six-Fours-les-Plages Thonon-les-Bains Saint-Raphaël Roanne Auxerre Mâcon Agen Nevers Pontoise Épinal Dreux Lens Mont-de-Marsan Vienne Orange Périgueux Agde Carpentras Soissons Bergerac Cavaillon Muret Lunel Montbéliard Sens Saintes Kourou Aurillac Alençon Libourne Biarritz Laon Vichy Rochefort Rodez Villeneuve-sur-Lot Dole Abbeville Frontignan Oyonnax Auch Millau Chaumont Manosque Dax Cahors Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Le Puy-en-Velay Lannion Moulins Albertville Saint-Lô Royan Cognac Pontarlier Verdun Digne-les-Bains Lons-le-Saunier Sedan Pamiers Vesoul Pointe-à-Pitre Bar-le-Duc Tulle Saint-Jean-de-Luz Lourdes Guéret Apt Mende Briançon Saint-Gaudens Basse-Terre Oloron-Sainte-Marie Albert Foix Figeac Uzès Privas

Frequently asked questions about license-free car routes

Why are Waze and Google Maps a poor fit for a license-free car route?

Waze and Google Maps plan trips for vehicles allowed on motorways and expressways, which are off-limits to license-free cars. They suggest routes that are illegal for a light quadricycle and show wrong travel times based on 110 or 130 km/h instead of the real 45 km/h. A license-free car route has to leave out these roads and recompute the time at the real speed.

How long does a long trip take in a license-free car?

A license-free car runs at 45 km/h at most. Allow about 1 h for 40 km on a secondary road, clearly more than in a regular car. For 100 km, plan 2 h 30 to 3 h depending on the terrain and town crossings. On long trips you also have to factor in range (tank or battery) and breaks.

Can a license-free car use a motorway or an expressway?

No. License-free cars (light quadricycles) are banned from motorways, expressways and ring roads. Driving on them risks a fine of up to 1,500 € and a dangerous situation. A license-free car route must always go around these roads on the secondary network.

How do you work out a route suited to a license-free car?

You need a route calculation that filters out banned roads (motorways, expressways) and estimates the time at 45 km/h. Browse the 3,518+ trips below between the main French towns, or use the TacTac app for real-time voice guidance on a 100% legal route.

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