OpenVan.camp

Your road travel hub

An independent resource for everyone who travels by road — in a motorhome, an ordinary car or on foot. Route roadbooks, visas, fuel prices, weather, events and news from around the world.

What we do

A complete ecosystem of tools for life on the road

Route roadbook

Enter where you start and where you are going — get a guide to the whole route for your passport and vehicle: visas, roads, fuel, weather and places to stay. Europe, Asia and the Americas.

  • Visas and length of stay — for you and for your vehicle
  • Toll roads, vignettes and fuel costs
  • Typical weather for your travel dates
  • License plate restrictions and Green Card
Build a roadbook
Amsterdam → Rome
Europe · vignettes and toll roads
Chicago → Santa Monica
USA · the legendary Route 66
Buenos Aires → Ushuaia
Argentina · to the end of Patagonia

Visas & passports

A full "passport → country" matrix: entry mode, length of stay and how days are counted. Plus temporary vehicle import rules — people and vehicles get their allowed stay from different authorities.

  • Entry rules for a passport of any country
  • Length of stay and how days are counted
  • Temporary vehicle import by country
  • Passport ranking and destination map
Check visas
Visa-free, on arrival, eTA, e-visa
Entry mode for every country pair
How long you can stay
Limits and day-counting rules
Bringing your vehicle
Vehicle stay limit and documents

VanSky weather index

A travel comfort index from 0 to 100 based on forecast temperature, sunshine and wind. Shows where the weather is good right now — by country and city worldwide.

  • Score from 0 (uncomfortable) to 100 (perfect)
  • Countries and cities on one map
  • Forecast refreshed throughout the day
  • The index also shows on the route map
Where it is nice now
Temperature
Neither too hot nor too cold
Sunshine
Cloud cover and rain
Wind
Comfort at your camp spot

Smart news feed

We monitor 126 sources worldwide: RSS feeds, Google News, Bing News, industry publications. Similar articles are automatically grouped into stories — no duplicates.

  • AI clustering of similar news
  • Auto-deduplication
  • 12 categories
  • Filter by country and source language
Read the news
Season opening in Europe
3 sources
New camper from Hymer
7 sources
Meetup in Spain
2 sources

Semantic AI search

Search by meaning, not keywords. Type "where can you overnight in a camper in Europe" — the system will find everything relevant even without exact matches.

  • Search across all stories
  • Context-aware queries
  • Works in all 7 languages
Try search
where to park a camper...
Parking spots in Spain
Campsites in Germany
Free parking France

Events calendar

1 656 events — meetups, exhibitions, festivals and vanlife community gatherings worldwide. Learn about upcoming events before anyone else.

  • Exhibitions, meetups, festivals
  • Filter by country and type
  • Submit your own event
View events
FR
Master Camping-cars, Vans and Caravans of Rouen
Oct 2026
FR
Narbonne Camping-car Days
Oct 2026
BE
Mobicar 2026
Oct 2026

Weekly digest

Every week our editors curate the highlights: top industry news, trends and most-read articles. Published in all 7 languages.

  • Published weekly
  • 7 languages
  • Telegram, WhatsApp, website
Read digests
VanLife Weekly
→ Camping season opening
→ Düsseldorf expo highlights
→ Overnight laws: Portugal
RU EN DE ES FR PT TR

Fuel Prices

Petrol, diesel and LPG prices worldwide — from government sources, fuel station chains and aggregators, with price history. They power the route fuel cost calculator.

  • Petrol and diesel in 160+ countries
  • Sources checked regularly, with a verification date for every country
  • Compare prices between countries
  • Fuel cost calculator for your route

Fuel · region

Fuel prices worldwide →
Country
cheaper
pricier
United States is highlighted as the row between cheaper and pricier
Calculate route cost

Mobile app

Android APK or add the website to your home screen as a PWA — works on any device without installation. News, events, offline currency converter — all at your fingertips on the road.

  • Android APK
  • PWA
  • Offline currency rates
Download
OpenVan.camp App
Android iOS · not planned yet PWA

Interactive Map

Campsites, parking spots, fuel stations and other vanlife points on one map. Plan a route with fuel cost calculation and tips on the best place to refuel between countries.

  • Route with fuel cost calculation and refuel optimization
  • Live prices at individual fuel stations, where available
  • Campsites, water, toilets, waste disposal, EV charging
  • VanSky comfort index and events along the route
  • Toll roads, vignettes and alternative routes to choose from
Open Map
Campsites
Parking

How news collection works

From source to reader — automatically

01

Collection

126 sources worldwide: RSS, Google News, Bing News. Checked for updates every 10 minutes.

02

AI processing

Clustering similar articles, deduplication, relevance scoring, translation into 7 languages.

03

Publishing

Ready stories on the website, Telegram, WhatsApp. Short links for every article.

In 7 languages

The website and all content are available in 7 languages. Switch in the menu or choose a language in the URL — every route is fully localized.

Translations update automatically with new content.

RU Русский
GB English
DE Deutsch
ES Español
FR Français
PT Português
TR Türkçe

More on the site

Reference guides, games and your personal profile

Want to advertise?

Our media kit includes audience stats, geography, ad formats and pricing.

View media kit

For developers

An open API with no keys: news, events, fuel prices, visas, exchange rates, VanSky and license plates. An MCP server for AI assistants and RSS feeds in all 7 languages.

API documentation
GET /api/news
{
  "stories": 32168,
  "languages": 7,
  "sources": 126
}
RSS API MCP JSON
Aleksey Kopaev

About the Creator

Aleksey Kopaev

Founder & Developer

Van traveler and developer. Created OpenVan.camp in 2023 while living full-time on wheels, to solve a real problem — there was no single place to follow vanlife news from around the world. Today it is a road travel portal: 126 news sources, fuel prices in 169 countries, visas, roadbooks and weather — in 7 languages.

Copyright

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