Driving in Clermont-Ferrand

France: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.

The short answer for Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand has one driving restriction on our books: the Zone à faibles émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) de Clermont Auvergne Métropole (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. Irrelevant to a car here, and for a van or lorry the test is not the fuel but the sticker. The ban reaches only vehicles in the 'non classés' category — those too old to qualify for any Crit'Air sticker, whether petrol or diesel — and only when they are professional goods vehicles. A petrol car of any age and any Crit'Air class may drive and park inside the zone.
Diesel. Same test as for petrol, and the same answer for a car: none. A diesel car is not in the scheme at any age. A diesel lorry or light commercial van used professionally is banned only if it is 'non classé' — one Crit'Air class, the oldest, with Crit'Air 1 through 5 all unaffected. The Métropole publishes no dated cut-off for what makes a vehicle unclassified, so none is stated here.

Sources last read on 2026-09-17, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-17.

The schemes, one by one

• Zone à faibles émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) de Clermont Auvergne Métropole Low emission zone

  Clermont's low emission zone does not reach a car, and since March 2025 it is one of the largest in France by area — the Métropole extended it from a slice of Clermont-Ferrand to all twenty-one of its communes without changing a single restriction.

  What it bans is narrow and has not moved since 1 July 2023: professional goods vehicles, lorries and light commercial vans alike, that are 'non classés' — too old to be given any Crit'Air sticker at all. Cars, motorcycles and passenger-transport vehicles are outside the scheme entirely, and so is a private individual's unclassified van, provided it is not put to professional use.

  The ban covers parking as well as driving.

Driving to Clermont-Ferrand?

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Before you set off

France also has a national requirement

• Certificat qualité de l'air (vignette Crit'Air)Every vehicle class the nomenclature covers — cars, two-wheelers, tricycles and quadricycles, light commercial vehicles and heavy vehicles including buses and coaches. The class depends on the vehicle type, its engine and its Euro emission standard, and once assigned it is valid for the whole life of the vehicle.

This is owed on the country's roads, not inside this scheme. What France asks, with the source

Other cities in France

• Saint-Étienneabout 107 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Lyonabout 134 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Annemasseabout 246 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Montpellierabout 248 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Toulouseabout 277 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Bordeauxabout 307 km away, 1 verified scheme

And 8 more in France