Luxembourg by campervan: sleeping and camping

Where you may legally sleep in a campervan in Luxembourg: parking, camping, campsites, stopovers and possible fines. What to know before you go.

Published 18 September 2026Last checked 19 September 2026

Currency
Euro
EUR. Cards everywhere. VAT is 17 percent
Language
Luxembourgish
French and German are administrative languages too
Driving
Right
Motorway 130 km/h, 110 in the rain, 90 outside towns
Power
230V, type C and F
The standard continental round two-pin
Public transport
Free
Second class, nationwide, since 1 March 2020
Emergency
112
Any language. Police 113

Sleeping

The rule is a single provision and it turns on whether your wheels are on a public road. The 2018 nature protection law says that in the green zone, self-propelled vehicles and roulottes used as dwellings may stand on the public roads for as long as they are admitted to circulation on those roads. A road-legal, taxed, insured motorhome parked on a public road is therefore inside the law.

A camper van parked in tree shade on a grassy hilltop above rolling wooded country — Parked up in the hills. The campsite network is where a night like this is legal

Inside the rule

A road-legal motorhome standing on a public road in the green zone
A campsite in the green zone that was lawfully authorised before the 2018 law
A sports, leisure or camping zone specially fitted out for standing caravans
Private land where the use is lawful and the owner agrees

Outside it

A field, a track, a forest clearing or a riverbank in the green zone
Any of the above even with the landowner's permission, if the use is not a permitted one
A vehicle not admitted to circulation, which loses the road permission
Anywhere a communal règlement says otherwise, and you will not find that in a national source

What the law says

Where you may stand off the road. Without prejudice to more restrictive provisions enacted by the communal council, standing a roulotte, caravan or mobilhome is permitted only on campsites in the green zone duly authorised before this law entered into force, and in sports and leisure zones or camping zones where permanent standing is provided for and which are specially fitted out for it.
What counts as a caravan. A roulotte, caravan or mobilhome means any vehicle or part of a vehicle, and any comparable habitable structure, that can serve as shelter, for temporary stay, or for a temporary activity. That is what brings a campervan inside the rule.

What the green zone is, and who else decides

The green zone is everything not principally allocated to urbanisation under the communal plan d'aménagement général in force. In a country of 2,586 km² and 694,000 people that is most of the map.
The communes can be stricter. The law says so in its first line. Luxembourg has 100 of them and their règlements de police are not published centrally.

Where to sleep, and what to check first

Option	What you get	What to check
Public road, green zone	The road permission in the nature protection law. Legal for a road-legal vehicle, free, and the reason a night in Luxembourg need not cost anything.	Local signs and communal rules, and the Code de la route conditions this page cannot quote
Campsite	A dense network for the size of the country, much of it on rivers. Water, waste, electricity, showers.	Whether it is open. Many are seasonal, roughly Easter to October
Classified campsite	Since 2018 the Ministry of the Economy and Tourism runs a voluntary star classification with 184 criteria in four chapters. More stars means more conditions met.	The classification is voluntary, so an unclassified site is not necessarily a worse one
Sports, leisure or camping zone	The other thing the law permits, where the zone is specifically fitted out for standing caravans.	That it is one of those zones and not simply a car park next to a pitch
Private land	Lawful with the owner's agreement where the use of the land permits it.	That the use is a permitted one. Permission from the owner is not by itself enough

Standing off the public road in the green zone is the thing to avoid. The fine is 24 to 1,000 euros under the nature protection law. The amount is not the point: the point is that the law draws its line at the edge of the tarmac, not at whether you put a chair out, so the parked-versus-camping test used in Spain or Italy does not help you here.