Driving in Clermont-Ferrand: ZFE

Clermont-Ferrand, France · Low emission zone

Official name Zone à faibles émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) de Clermont Auvergne Métropole

What applies

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.

Source: Clermont Auvergne Métropole, read 2026-09-17
Daily charge

There is no charge and no day pass. This scheme bans rather than prices: an unclassified professional goods vehicle may not drive or park inside at all, and every other vehicle may, so there is nothing to buy on entry. Neither of the Métropole's two pages that describe the zone mentions a fee of any kind.

When it operates

Not stated by the operating authority. Clermont Auvergne Métropole describes the ban without any time qualifier — vehicles 'n’ont plus le droit de rouler et de stationner' — and nowhere on its live site does it publish hours, days or a night or weekend exception.

The national ZFE portal run by the environment ministry does say 'tous les jours 24h sur 24' for Clermont, and that figure is deliberately NOT used here: the same portal entry still describes the perimeter as a ring of boulevards inside Clermont-Ferrand, which the Métropole's own page supersedes as of March 2025, so the entry is not a current statement about this zone.

The hours would come from the arrêté itself, which is not reachable — see the record's notes on the publisher's two closed channels.

Area covered

Since March 2025 the zone covers the whole of Clermont Auvergne Métropole — all twenty-one member communes, which the Métropole describes as reaching from the Châteaugay vineyards to the château de Montrognon and from the puy de Dôme to the banks of the Allier. Before that it was a delimited perimeter within the city of Clermont-Ferrand only.

The extension was approved by the metropolitan council on 27 September 2024 and, in the council's own words, left the traffic restrictions unchanged.

Source: Clermont Auvergne Métropole, read 2026-09-17
Why there is no map here
The national ZFE register does carry a polygon for Clermont, and it is the wrong one — not merely unverifiable, but superseded. Its bounding box reaches 4.57 km from the city anchor, which is the delimited perimeter inside Clermont-Ferrand that applied before March 2025; the Métropole states that since March 2025 the zone is all twenty-one communes, whose own OSM local_authority boundary (relation/2099673) spans 26.81 km by 20.81 km. Serving that polygon would tell a driver the zone ends at a ring of boulevards when in fact it now covers the whole metropolitan area, so it is withheld. No replacement shape is published: the Métropole gives its perimeter in words and in a list of communes, which D-038 does not accept as a measured area, and the founding arrêté that would define it is a 24-page scan with no extractable text.

The authority's own map: Point d'Accès National transport.data.gouv.fr

Petrol standard

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.

Source: Clermont Auvergne Métropole, read 2026-09-17
Diesel standard

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.

Source: Clermont Auvergne Métropole, read 2026-09-17
Penalty if you do not comply
€68.00Source: Service Public, read 2026-09-17
Full citation

Service Public (Direction de l'information légale et administrative, Premier ministre)

How to comply
  • If you are arriving by car or motorcycle, there is nothing to do. The Métropole states that cars and motorcycles are excluded from the scheme and may drive freely, and the council adds that passenger-transport vehicles are not concerned either.
  • If you are driving a lorry or a light commercial van for professional goods transport, check whether it is 'non classé' — the category too old for any Crit'Air sticker. That one class is banned; Crit'Air 1 to 5 are not.
  • If you own an unclassified light commercial van as a private individual, you are excluded too, but only for as long as it is not put to professional use. That condition is the Métropole's own wording, not an inference.
  • Assume the whole metropolitan area, not the city centre. Since March 2025 all twenty-one communes are inside the zone, and any map or portal still showing a ring of boulevards in Clermont-Ferrand is out of date.
  • The ban covers parking as well as driving, so leaving a restricted vehicle inside the perimeter is not a way round it.
  • The Métropole publishes no hours for this zone. Treat it as in force whenever you are there rather than looking for a night or weekend window, and do not rely on a third-party timetable for it.
Source: Clermont Auvergne Métropole, read 2026-09-17

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-17.

Before you set off

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