Openvan Travel

Plan a road trip by campervan or car between 2-10 places with the OpenVan.camp roadbook: distance, driving time and a day-by-day plan with overnights, budget (fuel, tolls, vignettes, ferries), and for every country on the way the entry rule for the given passports, residence permit and plates, how long you and the vehicle may stay (Schengen 90/180), road rules and city access (low-emission zones and stickers such as Umweltplakette and Crit'Air, Italian ZTL), holidays on the trip dates, safety and power plugs, plus the main warning and a checklist. Returns a link to the full roadbook the user can open, edit and share. Use this first when the user describes a trip from A to B.

Everything to know before driving into one country by campervan or car, in one call: entry rule and how long the person and the vehicle may stay (with passport), travel weather now and this week, fuel prices, tolls and vignettes, public holidays in the next 30 days, safety advice, power plugs, customs limits and food prices. Use it when someone asks what to know about a country, the nuances or a guide for travelling there, or is preparing a trip to it; use the single-topic tools for one narrow question.

Current retail fuel prices for all API-supported countries. Covers gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG, E85, kerosene and grade variants. Pass country_code to get one country in detail; omit it for a summary list. Use it for the price of petrol, diesel, LPG/autogas/propane or CNG in one country; without a country it gives an overview.

Compare current prices for one fuel type across 2-10 countries. Returns sorted table cheapest-first. Use it when someone asks which of two or more named countries has cheaper or more expensive fuel.

Rank countries by the price of a fuel type in a region (or worldwide): the cheapest first, or with order=most_expensive the most expensive first. Useful for route planning. Use it for «where is fuel cheapest» and, with order=most_expensive, «where is fuel the most expensive», in a region or worldwide.

How suitable the weather in a whole country is for travelling and sleeping in a campervan, as a 0-100 score: overall travel score, sleep score, solar panel yield, driving conditions, awning safety, condensation risk, a 7-day forecast, and the 3 best and 3 toughest cities for the coming week. Country-level: for a named city use get_city_travel_weather. Use it when someone asks what the weather is like in a country, where in a country it is warmer, colder or sunnier, which of its cities are best or worst this week, or whether it is too cold or rainy to sleep in a van there now.

How suitable the weather in one city or town is for travelling and sleeping in a campervan, as a 0-100 score for today and for the coming 7 days, with the city's place among the cities of its country this week, comfortable days, the best stretch and the worst day, a 7-day forecast with day and night temperature and rain, today's score breakdown (thermal, sunshine, precipitation, wind), sleep, driving and solar scores and ready-made advice. Use this, not get_country_travel_weather, when the user names a place (Barcelona, Málaga, Alicante). Use it for the weather in one named city, town or place today, tomorrow or this week.

What the weather is usually like in a city or at any point on a given day of the year, from the ERA5 climate archive 2021–2025 (median of 35 archive days: the date ±3 days over five years): day and night temperature, on how many of the 35 days there was precipitation, the usual sky, sea or large-lake water temperature, solar radiation for panels and the VanSky climate index; plus all 12 months and the best month to travel. Climate, not a forecast. Use it for dates beyond the coming week ("weather in Batumi in mid-September", "is the sea warm in Antalya in May") and for "when is the best time to go"; for today and this week use get_city_travel_weather. Omit date to get the month overview.

List the N countries where the weather is best for travelling by campervan, highest 0-100 travel score first: today's score by default, or with period=week the score of the coming 7 days (the ranking used on OpenVan.camp). Use it when no country is named and someone asks where to go for warm or good weather right now — worldwide or in a region (region=europe…); with sort=warmest only when they literally ask where it is warmest or hottest (it ranks by temperature alone, so deserts come first; «warm and pleasant», «warm and dry» → the default score). These are today's conditions and the coming days, not a forecast for a later month: for «in November» say so.

List vanlife events: expos (Caravan Salon), festivals, meetups, forums, road trips. Filter by status, type, country, or free-text search.

Get full details for a single vanlife event by its slug.

Search recent news about campervans, motorhomes and road travel collected by OpenVan.camp from public news sources. Returns for each story only a headline, a short summary of up to 300 characters, date, category, countries and a link to the story page on openvan.camp, which credits the original publishers. Never returns full article text. Filter by words in the headline, category, country and language.

Compare food price index between two countries (world average = 100). Higher number = more expensive food. Use it when someone asks where food is cheaper between two countries.

Food price index for one country (world average = 100): how expensive groceries are there, with its yearly history. Use it when someone asks how expensive food, groceries or living is in a country.

Rank countries by food price index (world average = 100) in a region or worldwide: the cheapest first, or with order=most_expensive the most expensive first. Use it when someone asks where food or groceries are cheapest or most expensive.

Convert an amount between two currencies using live rates (150+ currencies, daily updates). Use it for exchange rates and converting an amount between currencies.

Entry rules for one passport and destination: entry mode, allowed length of stay, how the days are counted (per entry or in a rolling window), whether a visa run resets the counter, and temporary vehicle import. Answers carry a confidence level and source — pass those on instead of stating a rule as certain.

Visa rules for every country of a route in one call, for up to 10 passports at once, plus the tightest leg of the route.

Temporary admission rules for a foreign-plated vehicle in one country: allowed days, per entry or per window, carnet requirement, green card. A country without a rule we can stand behind returns nothing rather than a guess.

Toll reference for one country: payment system, per-km rates by vehicle class (car, campervan up to 3.5 t, over 3.5 t), vignette prices for every duration, concession sections and toll bridges/tunnels, each with verification date and source. Use it for toll roads, motorway fees, whether a vignette is needed and what it costs in one country.

Estimate toll cost for a road trip from 2-10 place names: per-km tolls, vignettes, bridges and tunnels, as a EUR range with a per-country breakdown. Flags partial results when a country on the route has no data. Use it only for the toll cost between named places when no other trip details are asked; for a whole trip use plan_road_trip.

Public holidays, school holidays (often regional, with ISO 3166-2 region codes) and official peak traffic days (France, Bison Futé) in one country for a period of up to 400 days. A country without data returns an error saying so — never present that as "no holidays". Use it for public holidays, days off, school holidays and peak traffic days.

Situation now in one country: UK FCDO travel advice level and current GDACS natural disasters (flood, earthquake, tropical cyclone, wildfire, drought, volcano) with alert level green/orange/red. Not a forecast. Use it when someone asks whether it is safe to go to a country now, about travel warnings or natural disasters.

NASA FIRMS VIIRS satellite fire detections of the last 48 hours in a bounding box up to 10°×10°, strongest first, with fire radiative power in MW. Use it for wildfires right now near a place or in a country: bbox is west,south,east,north in degrees — longitude first (Portugal ≈ -9.6,36.9,-6.1,42.2).

Plug types (IEC A–N), mains voltage and frequency for one country, with the source of the value, plus the campsite hook-up connector in Europe (CEE17). Use it for socket and plug types, adapters, mains voltage and campsite hook-ups.

Ferry and river crossing lines in a bounding box from OpenStreetMap: name, operator, countries, whether cars are carried, crossing time, the operator site checked by hand and a booking link where confirmed, and whether an open timetable exists. bbox is west,south,east,north in degrees — longitude first (Adriatic ≈ 12,39,20,46). Narrow with query (port or operator) or country_code. Use it for which ferries go to an island or across a sea, strait or river, and to get the id for get_ferry_schedule.

One ferry line by id from find_ferries: both ends with country, operator site and booking link, and a timetable digest from open GTFS feeds — next departures today in local time, sailings per day, daytime and night rhythm, weekdays over the next 8 days, crossing time. available: false means no open timetable is matched, not that the ferry does not run. Use it for when the next ferry leaves, how often it runs and how long the crossing takes.

Customs rules when driving into a country, optionally from a given country: food bans, cash declaration, alcohol and tobacco limits, goods value, fuel in a canister. Each rule carries a verbatim official quote and source link. A country without data returns an error saying so — never present that as "nothing is restricted". Use it for what you may bring in by car: alcohol, tobacco, cash, meat and other food, goods limits.

Countries whose license plates are available: international code, number of regions and an example plate.

How a country's license plate looks and reads (standard, size, format), its plate types (standard, diplomatic, police, taxi…) with example numbers, and every region code on its plates, grouped by region — e.g. which region is 77 or 199 on Russian plates. Use it for what a plate region code means (77, 777, AA…) and a country's plate format.

Validate a plate number against the country's format (look-alike letters are normalized) and say which region its code belongs to. Pass type to check against a specific plate type's format. Never identifies the owner or the vehicle's location. Use it to check a specific plate number.

Draw an illustrative image of a country's standard civilian license plate (PNG shown inline, plus SVG/PNG links). The number must match the country's standard format. Official, police, military and diplomatic plates are not drawn. Use it to draw or show a picture of a plate.