Speed limit outside built-up areas

The following speed limits apply on the carriageway outside built-up areas:

• For snorfietsen, the speed limit is 25 km per hour.
• For agricultural and forestry tractors, limited-speed motor vehicles and mobile machinery, with or without a trailer, 40 kilometers per hour.
• For brommobielen 45 kilometers per hour.
• For mopeds and vehicles for disabled persons, equipped with an engine:
  • 1. on the bicycle path or the bicycle/moped path 40 kilometers per hour.
  • 2. on the carriageway 45 kilometers per hour.
• for vehicles for disabled persons, equipped with an engine, on the pavement or footpath 6 kilometers per hour.
• For motorcycles, passenger cars, lorries, buses and camper vans, 80 kilometer per hour.

The following maximum speeds apply on autowegen outside built-up areas:

• For camper vans whose maximum authorised mass exceeds 3500 kg, lorries and buses, other than T100 buses, 80 kilometers per hour.
• For passenger cars, vans, motorcycles, three-wheeled motor vehicles, and T100 buses 100 kilometers per hour.
• for passenger cars, vans, motorcycles, three-wheeled motor vehicles and T100 buses, propelling a trailer with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3500 kg, 90 kilometers per hour.
• for camper vans whose maximum authorised mass exceeds 3500 kg, lorries, and buses, other than T100 buses, propelling a trailer with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3500 kg, 80 kilometers per hour.

The following maximum speeds apply on motorways:

• for camper vans whose maximum authorised mass exceeds 3500 kg, lorries and buses, other than T100 buses, 80 kilometers per hour.
• For passenger cars, vans, motorcycles, three-wheeled motor vehicles and T100 buses, 130 kilometers per hour. A speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour applies to these motor vehicles between 06:00 and 19:00.
• For passenger cars, vans, motorcycles, three-wheeled motor vehicles, and T100 buses, propelling a trailer with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3500 kg, 90 kilometers per hour.
• For camper vans with a maximum authorised mass exceeding 3500 kg, lorries and buses, other than T100 buses, pulling a trailer with a maximum authorised mass not exceeding 3500 kg, 80 kilometers per hour.

You are driving outside the built-up area as soon as you have passed traffic sign H2, end of built-up area.
If you leave a autoweg outside the built-up area, or a motorway and there are no signs indicating the built-up area, or and maximum speed limit, you are still driving outside the built-up area.

As you have read, there are various speed limits outside built-up areas. These speed limits apply unless a lower speed limit is indicated. For example, many motorways have a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour. Lower speeds can be indicated on a motorway by sign A1, but also by electronic signs above the road. Speeds indicated on an electronic sign are maximum speeds.
Motorways sometimes have a lower speed limit of, say, 70 kilometers per hour, especially close to cities.
Even if no lower speed limit is indicated, it is sometimes wise to adopt a lower speed. You must constantly adjust your speed to other traffic, weather conditions and the road surface.
More and more 60-kilometer zones are also being established. A speed limit of 60 kilometers per hour applies in these zones. This speed limit applies until you pass the sign at the end of the 60-kilometer-per-hour zone. In general, you drive on a single-lane road in such a zone. If speed humps have been built, you can usually drive over them at 60 kilometers per hour.
The roads within a 60-kilometer zone are made optically narrower by the construction of bicycle or suggestion lanes.
Various studies have shown that fewer accidents happen in these zones. Also, people drive less fast, even without speed checks.