Driving in Annemasse: ZFE

Annemasse, France · Low emission zone

Official name Zone à faibles émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) d'Annemasse Agglo

In force in Annemasse right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:03 · Europe/Paris

The zone is always on; whether it reaches you depends on whether your vehicle can be given a Crit'Air sticker at all, which this timetable does not check. Any class from E to 5 is unaffected at every hour until 1 January 2028.

It applies to parking as well as driving, so leaving a banned vehicle inside the perimeter is not a way round it.

Motorcycles and other L-category vehicles are exempt by local derogation, at every hour, whatever this timetable says is in force.

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

What applies

Annemasse bans only vehicles too old to be given a Crit'Air sticker at all, and it is the French zone that publishes the longest run-up to anything harder: Crit'Air 5 is not restricted until 1 January 2028, Crit'Air 4 until 2029 and Crit'Air 3 until 2030. Those three steps are not a plan the agglomeration might adopt — they are articles of the order that created the zone.

Motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles are exempt outright by local derogation, which is the opposite of Angers, where a two-wheeler from before 30 May 2000 is banned.

Source: Annemasse Agglo, read 2026-09-11
Daily charge

There is no charge and no day pass. The order bans driving and parking for the restricted classes; it never prices entry, and nothing can be bought at the boundary.

When it operates

Permanent. Article 5 of the order is explicit: the traffic restrictions apply every day, twenty-four hours a day. Article 2 adds that the ban covers parking as well as driving, so leaving a banned vehicle inside the perimeter is not a way round it.

Source: Annemasse Agglo, read 2026-09-11
Area covered

Article 4 of the order names seven communes: Ambilly, Annemasse, Cranves-Sales, Gaillard, Juvigny, Vétraz-Monthoux and Ville-la-Grand. Inside them the restrictions apply to the roads within a perimeter traced by the railway, the Foron, the Swiss border, the Arve, the Menoge and the Ruisseau du Moulin.

Slip roads and interchanges linking that perimeter to roads outside it are excluded — in particular the D903 and the route des Bois — and so are diversion routes set up for works or incidents. One warning about the publisher's own summary: Annemasse Agglo's web page lists six communes and leaves Juvigny out.

The order lists seven and includes it, and the order is the instrument — so if you are driving in the part of Juvigny inside that perimeter, treat yourself as in the zone.

Source: Annemasse Agglo, read 2026-09-11
Why there is no map here
Annemasse Agglo publishes the perimeter itself, as shapefile, KML and GPX on data.gouv.fr, and the national ZFE register carries a polygon for it measuring 26.47 km². Neither gate in this project can be honestly run on it. There is no published area figure to measure against (D-038). The membership test (D-043) does not fit either: the order names seven communes but restricts only the roads inside a perimeter drawn along a railway and four watercourses, so the communes are not inside the shape, the shape is inside them — and a commune's centre point could fall on either side of it without that meaning anything. The shape is also the part of this scheme most likely to be drawn wrong, because the order deliberately exempts the slip roads and the D903 that a filled outline would swallow.

The authority's own map: Annemasse Agglo

Petrol standard

Today only unclassified vehicles are banned — those too old to be given any Crit'Air sticker. The order applies that to cars (M1), light commercial vehicles (N1), heavy goods vehicles (N2 and N3) and buses and coaches (M2 and M3). Crit'Air 5 is added on 1 January 2028, Crit'Air 4 on 1 January 2029 and Crit'Air 3 on 1 January 2030, each ban adding to the ones before it.

Source: Annemasse Agglo, read 2026-09-11
Diesel standard

Annemasse does not split the rule by fuel. Access is decided by the Crit'Air class, which already encodes fuel and age together, and today by whether the vehicle has a class at all. The classes and their dates are recorded under the petrol standard.

Penalty if you do not comply

Neither Annemasse Agglo's page nor the order states an amount. Article 10 of the order says that breaching the restrictions, or driving or parking without a Crit'Air certificate, is punished as a third- or fourth-class contravention under article R.411-19-1 of the Code de la route — so the fine exists, it is set nationally, and we have not read the figure from a source that applies here.

Lyon's, Toulouse's and Saint-Étienne's publishers quote 68 € and 135 € from that same national article, and taking their number would be reading this city's fine off another city's page. Not estimated here.

How to comply
  • Check whether the vehicle can be given a Crit'Air sticker at all. If it can — any class from E to 5 — it may drive and park inside the zone today.
  • A Crit'Air sticker must be displayed on the windscreen even by vehicles that hold an exemption or a derogation. It costs 3.70 € including postage, from the national site, which is the only place it can be obtained.
  • Motorcycles, mopeds, tricycles and quadricycles are covered by a local derogation and are not restricted, on the grounds of low measured impact and small footprint.
  • National exemptions apply automatically: emergency and general-interest vehicles, defence ministry vehicles, holders of the carte mobilité inclusion with the disabled-parking mention, and low-emission public transport.
  • Local derogations run three years and are renewable — civil protection and public-interest associations, itinerant traders, local food producers and short-circuit distribution within 30 km, event organisers, specialised VASP vehicles and agricultural or tanker bodywork. Collection vehicles get a permanent one. Applications go to the agglomeration by the national online service or by email.
  • Watch the dates rather than the sticker colour: nothing changes for a Crit'Air 5 until 1 January 2028, and a Crit'Air 3 has until 1 January 2030.
Source: Annemasse Agglo, read 2026-09-11

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-11.

Before you set off

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