Driving in Ghent: Lage-emissiezone (LEZ) Gent

Ghent, Belgium · Low emission zone

In force in Ghent right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Brussels

This is the operating time only. We have not been able to read Ghent's own emission thresholds from an official source, so this says nothing about whether your vehicle may enter.

Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.

What applies

Ghent operates a low emission zone — it and Antwerp are the only two cities in Flanders that do. Flemish LEZs are in force seven days a week, around the clock, and a foreign-registered vehicle has to be registered before it may enter. We have NOT been able to read Ghent's own access thresholds from an official source, so this page does not state which Euro standards get in.

Check the City of Ghent's own pages before you drive.

Source: Vlaamse overheid, read 2026-09-02
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Vlaamse overheid (vlaanderen.be)

Daily charge

Flemish LEZs do not charge a compliant vehicle. Each city may allow a non-compliant vehicle in against payment on its own terms, and Ghent's terms could not be read from an official source on 2026-09-02.

When it operates

Seven days a week, 24 hours a day — the standing rule for every low emission zone in Flanders.

Source: Vlaamse overheid, read 2026-09-02
Full citation

Vlaamse overheid (vlaanderen.be)

Area covered

The boundary is published by the Stad Gent. On 2026-09-02 stad.gent could not be reached from our network at all, and lez.stad.gent serves only a client-rendered application shell with no readable text. Not restated from general knowledge.

Petrol standard

Ghent's own access thresholds could not be read from an official source on 2026-09-02. Flanders sets general access rules and each city may vary the paid-access terms, so Antwerp's thresholds must NOT be assumed to apply here. Deliberately left unstated rather than inferred.

Diesel standard

As for petrol: not read from an official source on 2026-09-02, and not inferred from the neighbouring city's rules.

Penalty if you do not comply

Not stated on the Flemish overview page, and the Ghent pages could not be reached on 2026-09-02. Not estimated.

How to comply
  • A foreign-registered vehicle must be registered before entering a Flemish low emission zone, even when it meets the standard.
  • Electric and hydrogen vehicles are always allowed in, whatever their Euro standard. Mopeds and motorbikes fall outside the vehicle categories the rules apply to.
  • Flanders scrapped the tightening that had been planned for 2026 on 28 November 2025, so the access rules in force before that date continue to apply.
  • Ghent's own thresholds, paid-access terms and zone boundary are published by the Stad Gent; read them before you travel, because this page does not state them.
Source: Vlaamse overheid, read 2026-09-02
Full citation

Vlaamse overheid (vlaanderen.be)

See the zone on a map

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-01.

Before you set off

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