50 unbeatable road trips
around the world
Discover some of the best road trips the world has to offer. We’ve mapped these out according to popular routes and roads, but you may wish to detour and make your own journey.
Methodology
We searched the internet to find some of the most popular and lesser known road trips across the world, taking information from various websites and sources about road trips from across the world.
We collected 7 data points for each roadtrip to find the best of the best and determine a ranking.
Petrol Cost
Petrol price taken from the GlobalPetrolPrices.com
Campervan Cost
Cost of campervan hire taken from Camperscanner.com, the cost was based on a one week hire of a standard campervan with the pick up location at the nearest point to the start of each route, and drop of location at the nearest point to the end of each route.
Food Price
Price of an inexpensive meal in the nearest city, taken from Numbeo’s Cost of Living
Tourism Safety
The safety and security score from the World Economic Forum for each country.
Road Safety
Data taken from Death on Roads which is based on the WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018
National Parks
The quality of national parks and monuments within a 20 mile radius of each route were collected from Roadtrippers. The rating for each park was collected from Google and averaged to give an overall quality rating. Where there were no National Parks within 20 miles of the route, a score of 0 was given.
Points of Interest
The number of points of interest within a 10 mile radius of each route were collected from Roadtrippers. The total number of points of interest was divided by the number of miles for each route to give a fair number.
Because these data sources vary in format, min-max normalisation values were used to standardise the data into a score between 0 and 10:
A score of 10 is equivalent to the best, for example the cheapest price of petrol scores 10 and the highest quality of national parks scores 10.
The overall rankings were then determined by the roadtrips average score.