OpenVan.camp Public API

Current retail fuel prices for 175 countries. The price key list is generated from the live API contract. Updated weekly from official government sources (EU Oil Bulletin, Statistics Norway, EIA, ANP, NRCan and others). Cached 6 hours. Fuel data last updated: 31 October 2026.

Price keys: gasoline_regular, gasoline, gasoline_premium, gasoline_super, diesel_regular, diesel, diesel_premium, lpg, cng, e85, kerosene, premium
Unit and currency are per fuel grade: units[grade] and currencies[grade] win over the country-level unit and currency. For example, Colombia prices per gallon, and petrol in Venezuela is in bolívars.

curl https://openvan.camp/api/fuel/prices

{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "DE": {
            "country_code": "DE",
            "country_name": "Germany",
            "region": "europe",
            "currency": "EUR",
            "local_currency": "EUR",
            "unit": "liter",
            "units": {
                "diesel": "liter",
                "diesel_premium": "liter",
                "gasoline": "liter",
                "gasoline_premium": "liter",
                "lpg": "liter",
                "premium": "liter"
            },
            "currencies": {
                "diesel": "EUR",
                "diesel_premium": "EUR",
                "gasoline": "EUR",
                "gasoline_premium": "EUR",
                "lpg": "EUR",
                "premium": "EUR"
            },
            "prices": {
                "gasoline_regular": null,
                "gasoline": 2.1144,
                "gasoline_premium": 2.21,
                "gasoline_super": null,
                "diesel_regular": null,
                "diesel": 2.2683,
                "diesel_premium": 2.4693,
                "lpg": 1.1586,
                "cng": null,
                "e85": null,
                "kerosene": null,
                "premium": 2.21
            },
            "price_changes": {
                "gasoline_regular": null,
                "gasoline": -0.0281,
                "gasoline_premium": -0.03,
                "gasoline_super": null,
                "diesel_regular": null,
                "diesel": 0.0006,
                "diesel_premium": 0.0003,
                "lpg": 0.0636,
                "cng": null,
                "e85": null,
                "kerosene": null,
                "premium": null
            },
            "fetched_at": "2026-10-31T11:35:40+03:00",
            "sources": [
                "EU Weekly Oil Bulletin",
                "clever-tanken.de (Premium Diesel)",
                "Tankerkoenig (tankerkoenig.de)",
                "Fuelo.net",
                "Cargopedia.net",
                "BenzinpreisAktuell.de"
            ],
            "sources_count": 4,
            "is_excluded": false
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "total_countries": 175,
        "updated_at": "2026-10-31 11:35:40",
        "cache_ttl_hours": 6
    }
}

Rates for 150+ currencies relative to EUR (EUR = 1) from several open sources with automatic failover. Refreshed every 6 hours: the refresh time is in meta.updated_at, and a rate older than 25 hours counts as stale.

curl https://openvan.camp/api/currency/rates

{
    "success": true,
    "rates": {
        "EUR": 1,
        "GBP": 0.83368921,
        "GEL": 2.9116,
        "KZT": 506.32837729,
        "RUB": 89.6603,
        "TRY": 55.8153,
        "USD": 1.11619968,
        "…": "…"
    },
    "meta": {
        "count": 152,
        "base": "EUR",
        "updated_at": "2026-10-31T18:05:17+03:00",
        "refreshed_every_hours": 6,
        "max_age_seconds": 90000
    }
}

VanBasket Food Price Index — how expensive food is relative to world average (World = 100). Based on World Bank ICP 2021, adjusted with IMF CPI.

# All countries
curl https://openvan.camp/api/vanbasket/countries

# Compare two countries
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vanbasket/compare?from=DE&to=TR"

# Single country with history
curl https://openvan.camp/api/vanbasket/countries/DE

Visa and border rules: how long you may stay for any passport × destination pair, how the days are counted (per entry or a rolling window), whether a visa run resets the counter — plus temporary vehicle import rules. Every answer carries its confidence, its source and the layer it came from.

# One pair: stay rule, entry mode, shared-counter zone, vehicle rule
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/visa/check?passport=RU&destination=TR"

# All 199 destinations for one passport
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/visa/passport/DE?mode=visa_free"

# Several countries and passports at once: the tightest leg of a route
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/visa/route?t=GE,AM,TR&p=RU,DE"

# Compact payload for colouring a world map
curl https://openvan.camp/api/visa/map/US

# Temporary vehicle import rules (country slug, e.g. georgia)
curl https://openvan.camp/api/visa/vehicle/georgia

# Passport ranking and the change log
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/visa/rank?limit=10"
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/visa/history?subject_key=RU%3ETR"

License plates of the world: format, region codes and a ready plate image. SVG/PNG are drawn by the same engine as on the site — the plate typeface is inside as outlines, nothing to install: just put the plate into an <img src>. Plus validation with letter normalization, random plates and a browser engine to draw plates yourself.

# Ready plate image — put it into <img src> (PNG: plate.png?width=800)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/plates/ru/plate.svg?number=A123BC&region=77"

# Countries, then one country: format, regions, codes, browser engine
curl https://openvan.camp/api/plates
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/plates/ru?locale=en"

# Validate a number and resolve its region; random plate
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/plates/ru/validate?number=A123BC&region=799"
curl https://openvan.camp/api/plates/ru/random

Toll roads by country — per-km rates for a car, a campervan up to 3.5 t and heavier vehicles, vignettes, toll bridges and tunnels, each with a verification date and source — and the cost of a whole route from place names: tolls as a EUR range and fuel at the prices of every country on the way.

# Tolls for a route of 2–10 place names: car | van (up to 3.5 t, default) | heavy
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/tolls/route?waypoints=Munich|Venice&vehicle_class=van"

# Toll reference: all countries, then one country with vignettes, bridges and tunnels
curl https://openvan.camp/api/tolls/countries
curl https://openvan.camp/api/tolls/countries/FR

# Fuel cost for the same kind of route, at the prices of every country on the way
curl -X POST https://openvan.camp/api/route-cost \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"waypoints":["Berlin","Prague"],"cons":10,"fuel":"diesel"}'

The OpenVan.camp roadbook from 2–10 place names — the same plan people build in the roadbook wizard: driving days and overnights, budget for fuel, tolls, vignettes and ferries, and for every country on the way the entry and vehicle rules for the given passports and plates, holidays, safety and power. The answer is a shareable roadbook page; identical requests return the same roadbook.

# Roadbook for 2–10 place names: places and locale are required, everything else goes into "inputs"
curl -X POST https://openvan.camp/api/roadbook/from-places \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"places":["Munich","Venice"],"locale":"en","inputs":{"travelers":["DE"],"plates":"DE","cons":10,"fuel":"diesel"}}'
# → { "code": "wqhk8", "status": "building", "url": "/en/roadbook/wqhk8-munich-venice", ... }

# While status is not "ready", poll it (returns only status and progress)
curl https://openvan.camp/api/roadbook/wqhk8/status
# → { "status": "ready", "error": null, "progress": ... }  then open https://openvan.camp + url

Public holidays, school holidays (often regional, with ISO 3166-2 codes) and official peak traffic days for a period of up to 400 days — to know when roads, campsites and ferries fill up.

# School holidays in Germany in December (kind = public | school | traffic)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/holidays/countries/DE?from=2026-12-01&to=2026-12-31&kind=school"

# Countries and the kinds of data each has
curl https://openvan.camp/api/holidays/countries

The situation in a country now: UK FCDO travel advice level and current GDACS natural disasters with an alert level, plus NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections of the last 48 hours in a bounding box. Not a forecast.

# FCDO advice level + current GDACS disasters
curl https://openvan.camp/api/hazards/countries/TR

# Active fires of the last 48 h, bbox = west,south,east,north (up to 10°×10°)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/hazards/fires?bbox=29,36,33,38"

Ferry and river crossing lines and their ports from OpenStreetMap in a map box, with operator sites checked by hand, online booking links where booking is confirmed, and a timetable digest from open GTFS feeds: next departures, days, rhythm and travel time. Line and port data are ODbL 1.0.

# Lines and ports in a box, bbox = west,south,east,north; zoom sets geometry detail
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/ferries?bbox=4.9,58.8,6.2,59.4&zoom=9"

# One crossing with both ends, then its timetable digest (local operator time)
curl https://openvan.camp/api/ferries/r5958961
curl https://openvan.camp/api/ferries/r5958961/schedule

Plug types (IEC A–N), mains voltage and frequency for every country, with the source of each value, plus the hook-up connector at European campsites (CEE17).

curl https://openvan.camp/api/electricity/countries/GB
curl https://openvan.camp/api/electricity/countries

What you may bring in by car: food bans, cash declaration, alcohol and tobacco limits, duty-free value, fuel in a canister. Optionally from a given country — there are no customs inside the EU. Every rule carries a verbatim quote of the official source and a link.

# Entering Norway from Germany: cash, alcohol, tobacco, food
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/customs/countries/NO?from=DE"

# Jurisdictions and blocs (EU, EAEU)
curl https://openvan.camp/api/customs/countries

The VanSky index rates how suitable the weather is for a motorhome trip, on a scale of 0–100, where 100 means excellent. It is calculated for a country or a city, for today and for the next 7 days. The 'today' value matches the figure shown on the openvan.camp page. For a city, the API returns its position in the country's city ranking, based on the week index (the 7-day average, lowered when the days are uneven); a day-by-day forecast with the components of the index; sub-scores for overnight stays, driving, solar power and the sea; air quality; and advice written as full sentences. To list the cities of a country in that ranking, use /api/vansky/weather/{code}/cities. For the ranking of countries, use /api/vansky/ranking. The formula and weights of the index are at /api/vansky/methodology. Replace {code} with the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. A city is identified by its Latin slug, which is the last segment of its page address. In openvan.camp/ru/vansky/georgia/batumi, the slug is batumi. To find a slug, call /api/vansky/search?q=Batumi. Here q is the city name.

# One country: score, forecast, best and worst cities for the week
curl https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/weather/PT

# Find a city slug: the last part of "url" (…/vansky/portugal/lisbon → lisbon)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/search?q=Lisbon"

# One city, as on its page: today, week, place in the country, score breakdown per day
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/weather/PT/lisbon?include=hourly"

# Rankings: cities of a country for the coming week, countries of a region
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/weather/PT/cities?limit=10"
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/ranking?region=europe&limit=10"

# How the score is calculated (curves, weights, adjustments) — recompute it yourself
curl https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/methodology

Typical weather for any coordinates or any VanSky city on a chosen day of the year. Each value is the median of 35 archive days: the same date ±3 days in each year of 2021–2025. The source is the ERA5 archive, a Copernicus reanalysis of observations. For a date, the response gives the daytime high and the night-time low, and how many of the 35 days had at least 1.5 mm of precipitation (rain or snow). It also gives the most common sky category (clear, cloudy, overcast), the water temperature of the sea or a large lake within ~50 km (no value is returned if there is no water in that range), solar radiation in kWh/m², useful for sizing solar panels, and the VanSky index on a scale of 0–100 (a higher value is more comfortable). For each of the 12 months, it gives the average number of clear, cloudy and overcast days without precipitation, and of days with precipitation, together with the month with the best index. In the request, pass either lat and lng (latitude and longitude) or an ISO country code with a city slug. The date parameter (format MM-DD) is optional. Without it, the response covers all 366 days.

# Any point: what the weather is usually like on 18 September
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/climate?lat=41.64&lng=41.63&date=09-18"

# A VanSky city, all 366 days + 12 months + best month
curl https://openvan.camp/api/vansky/climate/GE/batumi

Paginated list of vanlife events — exhibitions, festivals, meetups, road trips. Filter by status, type, country. Localized names in 7 languages.

# Upcoming events in Germany
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/events?country=DE&status=upcoming"

# Search by name, Russian locale
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/events?search=Adventure+Northside&locale=ru"

# Event details + linked source articles
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/event/adventure-northside-2026?locale=en"
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/event/adventure-northside-2026/articles?locale=en"

Vanlife news stories aggregated from 200+ publishers, translated into 7 languages. Each story includes sources — original publisher articles with direct links, source names, publication dates, and language codes. Semantic news search (q, up to 15 results) and the ready evening digest (ru, en).

# Latest stories in English
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/stories?locale=en"

# Filter by category and country
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/stories?locale=de&category=festival&country=DE"

# Full story with all source articles
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/story/adac-camper-des-jahres-der-wettbewerb-fuer?locale=en"

# Semantic search over the news (1–15 results)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/news/search?q=campervan+rules+Europe&locale=en&limit=5"

# Ready evening digest (ru or en)
curl "https://openvan.camp/api/news/digest?locale=en"

{
  "slug": "adac-camper-des-jahres-der-wettbewerb-fuer",
  "title": "ADAC launches 'Camper of the Year' competition for motorhome drivers",
  "summary": "ADAC is holding the national 'Camper des Jahres 2026' competition for motorhome owners...",
  "image_url": "https://...",
  "category": { "slug": "festival", "name": "Festivals" },
  "countries": [{ "code": "de", "name": "Germany", "flag_emoji": "🇩🇪" }],
  "first_published_at": "2026-01-22T11:00:00+03:00",
  "last_updated_at": "2026-07-04T04:16:47+03:00",
  "articles_count": 5,
  "url": "https://openvan.camp/en/news/festival/adac-camper-des-jahres-der-wettbewerb-fuer",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Nürburgring: Bundesweiter Wettbewerb «Camper des Jahres»",
      "original_url": "https://www.blick-aktuell.de/Berichte/...",
      "source_name": "BLICK aktuell",
      "published_at": "2026-04-30T09:24:20+03:00",
      "language": "de",
      "image_url": "https://..."
    }
  ]
}