São Paulo, Brazil · Number-plate driving ban
Official name Rodízio Municipal — Programa de Restrição ao Trânsito de Veículos Automotores (Decreto nº 58.584 de 20 de dezembro de 2018)
Not in force in São Paulo right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 06:05 · America/Sao Paulo
Starts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 07:00 local time.
Article 1 of Decreto nº 58.584/2018 restricts "de segunda a sexta-feira, exceto feriados", so every Brazilian public holiday is outside the scheme — and we hold no official, dated Brazilian holiday calendar to name those days. The verdict above therefore treats every weekday as a working day, which over-warns on a holiday rather than under-warning on a working day. The CET's suspension register names each holiday as it passes, but it is a record of what happened, not a calendar of what is coming.
Which of these five rules is yours depends on the last digit of your number plate, which we do not know. On any weekday only one pair of digits is barred; the other eight are free all day.
The timetable is the standing rule and not a forecast. Article 8 of the decree lets the Secretário Municipal de Mobilidade e Transportes suspend or alter the rodízio by portaria, for up to 180 days at a time, and the CET's own register shows this happening several times a year — sometimes for both windows, sometimes for the afternoon one alone. We do not read that register on the fly, so a rule shown as in force here may have been stood down for the day.
Trucks are inside the rodízio by article 1, but article 2, paragraph 2 lets them use the Minianel Viário roads themselves. The rules above cannot express that split, so a truck on the ring road is over-warned rather than under-warned.
The exemption classes in article 3 are not encoded here at all. A motorcycle, a licensed taxi, an electric or hybrid vehicle, or a registered disability exemption is outside the scheme at every hour, and this timetable will still show the rule as running.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
São Paulo closes its central ring to one pair of plate digits a day, at rush hour only. Monday takes plates ending 1 and 2, Tuesday 3 and 4, Wednesday 5 and 6, Thursday 7 and 8, Friday 9 and 0, from 07:00 to 10:00 and again from 17:00 to 20:00. Between and after those windows, and at every hour of Saturday, Sunday and a public holiday, the scheme bans nobody.
It applies to the area inside the Minianel Viário — the ring of ten named expressways and avenues the decree lists one by one, from the Marginal Tietê round to the Avenida Salim Farah Maluf — and it applies on the ring roads themselves, not only inside them. Two things make it unusual for a plate ban.
It is keyed to the plate alone: no emission class, no registration date, and it makes no difference where the car is licensed, so a hire car or a foreign plate is in the scheme on exactly the same terms as a São Paulo one.
And it is suspended often — for public holidays, for the eve of a long weekend, for a metro strike, sometimes for a single afternoon — each time by a dated portaria the CET lists in a public register we link below.
Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET), Secretaria Executiva de Mobilidade e Trânsito, Prefeitura de São Paulo — "Rodízio Municipal — Como Funciona"
Nothing is charged and nothing can be paid. Decreto nº 58.584/2018 prohibits circulation; it does not price it, and it creates no permit, day pass or payable exemption. The only ways out are the exemption classes listed in its article 3, several of which have to be registered in advance with the Departamento de Operação do Sistema Viário (DSV) rather than bought on the day.
Monday to Friday, public holidays excluded, from 07:00 to 10:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00, by the last digit of the number plate: Monday bars plates ending 1 and 2, Tuesday 3 and 4, Wednesday 5 and 6, Thursday 7 and 8, Friday 9 and 0.
Article 1 of Decreto nº 58.584/2018 states it as the prohibition of circulation of motor vehicles, trucks included, "de segunda a sexta-feira, exceto feriados, nos períodos compreendidos entre 7h00 (sete horas) e 10h00 (dez horas) e entre 17h00 (dezessete horas) e 20h00 (vinte horas), com base no dígito final da placa do veículo, independentemente de sua localidade de licenciamento".
That last clause is the one visitors need: where the vehicle is registered makes no difference. Outside those two windows the scheme does not run, and it does not run at all at weekends or on a public holiday.
It can also be suspended or altered for up to 180 days at a time by portaria of the Secretário Municipal de Mobilidade e Transportes, under article 8, when traffic is expected to be light or an extraordinary event — a flood, a strike, an accident on the road network — makes it pointless; a suspension may cover both windows or the afternoon one alone.
Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo — Decreto nº 58.584, de 20 de dezembro de 2018, articles 1 and 8, as published by the CET on its own server (a PDF the monitor reads in full, machine-watched since 2026-09-18)
The area enclosed by the Minianel Viário, and the ring itself.
Article 2 of Decreto nº 58.584/2018 does not draw it, it lists it, in both directions: the Marginal do Rio Tietê under all its names between Avenida Salim Farah Maluf and the Marginal do Rio Pinheiros; the Marginal do Rio Pinheiros under all its names from the Marginal do Rio Tietê to Avenida dos Bandeirantes; Avenida dos Bandeirantes in full; Avenida Afonso D'Escragnole Taunay in full; Complexo Viário Maria Maluf in full; Avenida Presidente Tancredo Neves in full; Rua das Juntas Provisórias in full; Viaduto Grande São Paulo in full; Avenida Professor Luís Ignácio de Anhaia Melo between the Viaduto Grande São Paulo and Avenida Salim Farah Maluf; and Avenida Salim Farah Maluf in full.
Paragraph 1 puts the boundary roads inside the scheme — the rule applies to vehicles circulating in the delimited region "inclusive seus limites" — so a car on the Marginal on a barred digit is barred, not merely approaching. Paragraph 2 carves out the one exception to that: trucks may use the Minianel roads themselves, subject to the separate truck regulations.
The CET's own map of the ring measures roughly 18 km east to west and 14 km north to south.
Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo — Decreto nº 58.584, de 20 de dezembro de 2018, article 2 and its paragraphs 1 and 2, as published by the CET on its own server (a PDF, so it carries no watched strings)
The authority's own map: Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET), Secretaria Executiva de Mobilidade e…
There is no emission standard to meet, and that is the scheme's design rather than a gap in our sourcing. Decreto nº 58.584/2018 sorts vehicles by the last digit of the plate and by nothing else — no Euro class, no PROCONVE phase, no registration date, no fuel.
The one place emissions appear at all is article 3, IX, a, which exempts vehicles driven by electric propulsion, by hydrogen or as hybrids outright; a petrol car is in the scheme whatever it emits.
Not applicable, for the same reason as the petrol standard: the decree never mentions fuel. Diesel is relevant here only in that most trucks run on it, and trucks are inside the rodízio by article 1 while being allowed on the Minianel roads themselves by article 2, paragraph 2.
São Paulo does restrict trucks by size and weight, but through a separate scheme — the Zona de Máxima Restrição à Circulação de Caminhões (ZMRC) — which this record does not cover and which is not sourced here.
The decree sets no amount of its own and names no article we could price.
Article 6 of Decreto nº 58.584/2018 puts enforcement with the DSV's traffic agents and says the penalty is the one "previsto na Lei Federal nº 9.503, de 23 de setembro de 1997, que institui o Código de Trânsito Brasileiro" — the statute, with no article number; article 3 of Lei nº 12.490/1997 does the same, and cites the older Código Nacional de Trânsito by name. We do not price a fine from an article-less reference.
CET does publish the federal fine table on its own FAQ — gravíssima R$ 293.47, grave R$ 195.23, média R$ 130.16, leve R$ 88.38 — and it prices the separate truck-sign offence at R$ 130.16, but it nowhere says which of those four classes a rodízio breach falls into, so putting a figure here would mean picking the class ourselves.
One thing the decree does state, and it is worth knowing: only one fine is issued per period per vehicle, however many times the vehicle is caught inside that period.
Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo — Decreto nº 58.584, de 20 de dezembro de 2018, articles 1 to 3 (article 3, IX, d as amended by Decreto nº 58.604 of 16 January 2019), as published by the CET on its own server (a PDF, so it carries no watched strings)
Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET) — "Rodízio Municipal — Como Funciona", the publisher's own current statement of the rule (the endpoint we monitor for the plate table, the hours and the area)
Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo — Decreto nº 58.584, de 20 de dezembro de 2018, the instrument that regulates the scheme, hosted by the CET (a PDF the monitor reads in full, machine-watched since 2026-09-18)
Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo — Decreto nº 58.604, de 16 de janeiro de 2019, which gives article 3, IX, d of the 2018 decree its current wording, hosted by the CET (a PDF the monitor reads in full, machine-watched since 2026-09-18)
Câmara Municipal de São Paulo — Lei nº 12.490, de 3 de outubro de 1997, the authorising statute, hosted by the CET; article 3 refers the penalty to the federal traffic code without naming an article (a PDF, so it carries no watched strings)
Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET) — "Isenção do rodízio municipal para pessoa com deficiência" (the endpoint we monitor for which decree is currently in force: the page names it and its amendment in the publisher's own words)
Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET) — "Perguntas Frequentes", the CET's own FAQ (the endpoint we monitor for the legislation chain, for the exemption register being optional, and for the federal fine table that does not say which class a rodízio breach falls into)
Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego (CET) — "Datas de Suspensão do Rodízio Municipal", the official register of every suspension since 1997, each with the portaria that ordered it (the endpoint we monitor for the scheme still being operated, and for the holiday rule)
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-12.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.