Road Trip Planner – Daily Driving, Stops, Fuel & Cost

Plan a road trip day by day

This road trip planner with stops takes the places you want to drive through, gets the road distance and driving time of every leg, and splits the trip into days by the most hours — or kilometres — you want to drive in a day. It shows where each night falls, when each day ends with breaks and sightseeing stops, where you must fill up, and what the whole trip costs in fuel, tolls, hotels and daily spending, in total and per person.

It works as a road trip cost calculator for India (km, km per litre and rupees, with 195 Indian cities built in) and anywhere else in miles and US gallons. Road distances come from Valhalla, an open-source routing engine, on OpenStreetMap data via a free public server — no sign-up, no key, and nothing is sent until you press the button.

How to use the Road Trip Planner

1. Type your places one per line in driving order: a city, an address, or “name, latitude, longitude”.
2. Press Get road distances. Until then the plan uses straight lines times a detour factor, marked as an estimate.
3. Set the most hours (and, if you like, kilometres) to drive in a day, when you set off, your breaks and the time at each stop.
4. Choose whether nights should fall at places on your list when possible, or wherever the daily limit is reached.
5. Enter fuel economy, tank, reserve and your fuel price, plus tolls, the cost of a night and daily spending. Copy the plan or download a CSV.

Road Trip Planner features

How the days, stops and costs are worked out

Each leg’s length and free-flow driving time come from the router; if you enter an average speed, time is distance ÷ speed instead. The planner then drives leg by leg. A day ends when the next leg would break your hours or distance limit; with “at a place on my list”, the night falls at the last place reached, unless the next leg is longer than a whole day — then the day ends wherever the limit falls, and that point is shown as coordinates so you can look for a town nearby. Breaks are added after each full block of driving (15 minutes every 2 hours by default), and the time at each stop on the way is added to the clock but not to the driving hours.

Fuel uses the same definitions as the fuel stop planner: usable range = tank × (100% − reserve) × distance per litre; the first stop comes after the range of the fuel you set off with. Fuel needed = total distance ÷ economy, and its cost = litres × your price, as in the fuel cost calculator. Nights = days − 1.

Example: Delhi → Agra → Jaipur → Udaipur → Ahmedabad → Mumbai is about 1,682 km by road and 37 h 19 min of free-flow driving (computed 24 Oct 2026). At 8 hours a day it takes 6 days; the night after Jaipur falls on the road to Udaipur. At 15 km/L, a 45-litre tank with 15% reserve covers about 574 km, so two fuel stops are needed and the trip uses about 112 litres.

Limits and estimates

• Times assume free-flowing traffic: no jams, roadworks, border queues or ghat-road delays. Use your own average speed for busy routes.
• The free FOSSGIS server accepts car routes up to 1,500 km in a straight line per request. Legs are grouped to stay under it; a single leg longer than that is a clearly marked estimate (straight line × 1.3). Ballou, Rahardja and Sakai (2002) found average road-to-straight-line ratios near 1.2 in the US and 1.3 in India.
• Fuel stops are the latest points by range — fill up earlier where stations are sparse. Tolls are your own estimate; the route only says whether it uses toll roads.
• To find the best order for many stops, use the multi-stop route planner first; for an electric car, the EV road trip planner.