Speed limit

Speed limit - maximum legal speed of vehicles. Article “Speed limit” in English Wikipedia has 87.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 239 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.6 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Speed limit” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Speed limit”, its content was written by 876 registered users of English Wikipedia (9334^th place) and edited by 2130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 969 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4413 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #683 in December 2004
• Global: #1370 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #13955 in January 2017
• Global: #23470 in January 2017

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		92.381
2	English (en) Speed limit		87.3779
3	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		74.7706
4	Portuguese (pt) Limite de velocidade		73.6879
5	Finnish (fi) Nopeusrajoitus		66.3145
6	Swedish (sv) Hastighetsbegränsning		58.1274
7	Simple English (simple) Speed limit		52.7563
8	Hebrew (he) הגבלת מהירות נסיעה		47.9676
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Fartsgrense		44.4036
10	Dutch (nl) Maximumsnelheid		43.5615

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Speed limit" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speed limit		3 392 776
2	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		1 330 974
3	Japanese (ja) 最高速度		1 262 859
4	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		556 752
5	Russian (ru) Ограничение скорости		374 583
6	Finnish (fi) Nopeusrajoitus		345 926
7	Swedish (sv) Hastighetsbegränsning		325 033
8	Italian (it) Limiti massimi di velocità		320 174
9	Romanian (ro) Limită legală de viteză		315 362
10	Dutch (nl) Maximumsnelheid		152 757

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Speed limit" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Speed limit		4 406
2	Romanian (ro) Limită legală de viteză		2 040
3	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		1 808
4	Korean (ko) 속도 제한		869
5	Russian (ru) Ограничение скорости		762
6	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		564
7	Japanese (ja) 最高速度		545
8	Chinese (zh) 车速限制		522
9	Finnish (fi) Nopeusrajoitus		486
10	Swedish (sv) Hastighetsbegränsning		253

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Speed limit" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Speed limit		876
2	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		414
3	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		175
4	Japanese (ja) 最高速度		90
5	Swedish (sv) Hastighetsbegränsning		87
6	Italian (it) Limiti massimi di velocità		68
7	Russian (ru) Ограничение скорости		68
8	Finnish (fi) Nopeusrajoitus		65
9	Dutch (nl) Maximumsnelheid		63
10	Danish (da) Hastighedsbegrænsning		38

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Speed limit" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		3
2	Romanian (ro) Limită legală de viteză		2
3	Danish (da) Hastighedsbegrænsning		1
4	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		1
5	English (en) Speed limit		1
6	Arabic (ar) الحد الأقصى للسرعة		0
7	Catalan (ca) Límit de velocitat		0
8	Greek (el) Όριο ταχύτητας		0
9	Spanish (es) Límites de velocidad		0
10	Estonian (et) Kiiruspiirang		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Speed limit" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 最高速度		1 662
2	English (en) Speed limit		969
3	German (de) Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit		384
4	Dutch (nl) Maximumsnelheid		221
5	French (fr) Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route		203
6	Chinese (zh) 车速限制		118
7	Hebrew (he) הגבלת מהירות נסיעה		93
8	Russian (ru) Ограничение скорости		86
9	Italian (it) Limiti massimi di velocità		77
10	Portuguese (pt) Limite de velocidade		59

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحد الأقصى للسرعة
ca	Catalan Límit de velocitat
da	Danish Hastighedsbegrænsning
de	German Zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit
el	Greek Όριο ταχύτητας
en	English Speed limit
es	Spanish Límites de velocidad
et	Estonian Kiiruspiirang
fa	Persian محدودیت سرعت
fi	Finnish Nopeusrajoitus
fr	French Vitesse maximale autorisée sur route
gl	Galician Límite de velocidade
he	Hebrew הגבלת מהירות נסיעה
hi	Hindi गति सीमा
hr	Croatian Ograničenje brzine
id	Indonesian Batas kecepatan
it	Italian Limiti massimi di velocità
ja	Japanese 最高速度
kk	Kazakh Жылдамдықты шектеу
ko	Korean 속도 제한
lt	Lithuanian Greičio ribojimas
ms	Malay Had laju
nl	Dutch Maximumsnelheid
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Fartsgrense
no	Norwegian Fartsgrense
pt	Portuguese Limite de velocidade
ro	Romanian Limită legală de viteză
ru	Russian Ограничение скорости
simple	Simple English Speed limit
sl	Slovenian Omejitev hitrosti
sv	Swedish Hastighetsbegränsning
ta	Tamil வேக வரம்பு
tr	Turkish Hız sınırı
uk	Ukrainian Обмеження швидкості руху на дорогах
zh	Chinese 车速限制

Best Rank

English: #13955 01.2017

Global: #23470 01.2017

Best Rank

English: #683 12.2004

Global: #1370 06.2003

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