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There '''good times''' and less good times to hitchhike. Naturally [[hitchhiking at night]] should be discouraged to anyone [[first time|new to hitchhiking]]. But there is more to say.
==Days of the week==
'''Sunday''' morning until noon seems the worst time to hitchhike in [[Europe]], and many other parts of the "developed" world influenced by Christianity (the [[US]], [[Oz]], [[Kiwiland]] and [[Canadialand]] come to mind). Cars are full of families, with a grumpy wife on the side and not too many working people on the road. It usually gets better in the afternoon, when people are driving back from their weekend trip alone.
In many Muslim countries people also work on Sundays, and Friday is the day of the mosque, with considerably less traffic in countries like [[Jordan]].
In a lot of [[Europe|europeanEuropean]] countries, most of the trucks are not allowed on the highways on Sundays until 10:00 pm. They too are a hitchhiker-fond crowd. Sometimes. However, they all leaving their places at exactly 10:00 pm. So, if you stuck late on a big service area, you can see them as a ''get-home-insurance''. It's surely not a problem to find a truck to any destination if you start asking around at around 9:30 pm. ==Time of the year==In general, because of the length of the days and the cold [[Winter]] is bad, Autumn is also not that great, especially late Autumn. Spring and Summer are best, especially around the longest day, 21st of June.
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