Driving Exam Routes in Munich: Practise Before Your Praktische Fahrprüfung

Searching for Munich driving exam routes in English almost always means you are taking the German practical exam, the praktische Fahrprüfung, as an international resident. There is no official route list, but the exam starts and finishes at the TÜV SÜD centre and draws on a fixed set of local roads — the ones listed below recur across our practice routes.

Last reviewed 2026-09-10 · by SteerClear editorial · also available: Prüfungsstrecken üben (German)

Where you take your driving exam in Munich

SteerClear has 10 practice routes that start and finish at Munich's exam centre. For each centre, the roads below are the ones that appear on the most routes — the local network every exam from that centre is drawn from.

Route facts come from SteerClear's practice routes, which are built on the real road network around each centre. They are not a copy of any examiner's route — TÜV SÜD do not publish one.

What the Munich exam involves

Munich's practical exams are run by TÜV SÜD from its centre on Eichstätter Straße, west of the centre near Westend and Laim. As everywhere in Germany you book through your driving school: the exam has to be taken in a driving-school car with dual controls, your instructor in the passenger seat and the examiner in the back.

A class B exam lasts about 55 minutes with at least 25 minutes of driving. It must include driving outside built-up areas where that is reachable, so a stretch of the Mittlerer Ring or the A96 is realistic alongside the residential 30 km/h zones and the wide arterials such as Landsberger Straße. The result is given in the car from an electronic protocol.

Taking the exam if you don't speak the language

The theory exam is offered in English, but the practical exam is in German: the examiner's directions are given in German and your instructor is not permitted to translate during the exam. Learn the couple of dozen phrases you will hear — links, rechts, geradeaus, bitte wenden, halten Sie hier an — until they need no thought.

Whether you must sit the exam depends on where your existing licence was issued. EU and EEA licences remain valid; many others must be converted within six months of residence, sometimes with a theory or practical exam. Check with your driving school or the Munich licensing office (Führerscheinstelle) first.

How to practise your Munich exam routes

1. Start at the centre. Every route begins and ends at the exam centre's exit, so learn that junction — which lane, where the sight lines are poor, what the traffic does at your exam time.
2. Drive the recurring roads in both directions. The lists above are your syllabus. A junction that is easy turning one way is often the hard one turning the other.
3. Practise at your exam time of day. A route at 08:00 with commuters and school traffic is a different exam from the same route at 11:00.
4. Rehearse the directions in the exam language. Have your supervising driver give instructions the way the examiner will, so the words stop costing attention.
5. Finish with a full-length scored drive. A mock driving test of exam length shows whether faults cluster late, when concentration dips.

SteerClear builds these practice routes on the roads above and scores each drive live — speed, braking, cornering, lane position and observation — so a repeated hesitation at one junction shows up as a pattern you can fix before the exam.

Munich roads and rules that catch people out

Trams and priority

Munich trams run in the middle of many roads and have priority over turning cars. Do not overtake a tram on the side where passengers board, and take extra care turning left across the tracks.

The Mittlerer Ring

Munich's ring road is fast, multi-lane and busy with lane changes at every junction. Read the overhead lane signs early and merge with a clear mirror-signal-shoulder-check sequence.

Rechts vor links

Unmarked junctions in residential streets give priority to the right. Westend, Laim and Sendling are full of them. Approach every unsigned junction slowly and look right first.

Cyclists

Munich has extensive cycle lanes, many on the pavement side of parked cars. A visible shoulder check before each right turn is expected and its absence is marked.

Frequently asked questions

More on driving exam routes

Our international guide to driving exam routes covers what the practical exam is called in 31 countries and whether routes are published anywhere. All German centres are listed at Germany test centres. Other city guides in English: Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels.