Marseille, France · Low emission zone
Official name Zone à Faibles Émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) de Marseille
In force in Marseille right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:03 · Europe/Paris
The zone is always on; whether it reaches you depends on the vehicle's Crit'Air class, which this timetable does not check. Crit'Air 3, 2, 1 and 0 are unaffected at every hour — in Lyon and Montpellier a Crit'Air 3 is not.
The A55 flyover and the tunnels stay open to every vehicle at every hour, so a route that only uses them is outside the scheme even during the hours the zone is in force.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Marseille is the French low emission zone where the national timetable stopped.
Everywhere else the 2021 climate law pushed Crit'Air 3 out on 1 January 2025; here the metropolis cancelled that step by order n° 24-177 of 11 June 2024, and the reason it gives is legal rather than political — Aix-Marseille is no longer in regular breach of the air quality limits, so it became a 'territoire de vigilance' and the statutory timetable no longer applies to it.
The order postpones the class 3 ban with no new date. So today only Crit'Air 4, Crit'Air 5 and unclassified vehicles are barred from driving or parking in the 19.5 km² of central Marseille, 24 hours a day. A Crit'Air 3 diesel that is banned in Lyon and Montpellier is allowed here.
There is no daily charge. Marseille's ZFE-m bans rather than prices — the metropolis describes circulation and parking by a restricted vehicle as forbidden, and publishes a fine for it, not a tariff for entering. The only money is the Crit'Air sticker, which this publisher gives as 3,11 € per vehicle excluding postage; that is a one-off for the vehicle and is recorded under how_to_comply.
Permanently: the metropolis states that the zone applies 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, and it covers parking on the public highway as well as driving.
19.5 km² of central Marseille, home to 314,000 people — a small part of a commune that covers about 240 km², so most of Marseille is outside it. The metropolis draws the edge by naming the boulevards that enclose it: avenue du Cap Pinède, boulevards Capitaine Gèze and de Plombières, avenue Alexandre Fleming, boulevards Françoise Duparc, Sakakini, Jean Moulin and Rabatau, and avenue du Prado 2.
Two escapes are named explicitly and they matter for anyone passing through rather than stopping: the A55 flyover and the tunnels stay open to every vehicle. Signs mark the entries and exits.
A petrol car is only caught if it is Crit'Air 5 or unclassified — in practice first registered before 1997, since petrol from 1997 to 2005 is Crit'Air 3 and is not banned here. Crit'Air 4 has no petrol car in it at all: the class covers diesel cars registered up to 31 December 2005.
This is the mildest petrol threshold of any French zone in this corpus, and it is mild because the class 3 step was cancelled, not because Marseille started later.
A diesel car first registered up to 31 December 2005 is banned, because that is Crit'Air 4 or worse.
A diesel car from 1 January 2006 onwards is Crit'Air 3 or better and is allowed — and that is the whole difference between Marseille and the rest of France, because order n° 24-177 of 11 June 2024 deleted the clause that would have barred class 3 from 1 September 2024 and replaced it with a postponement carrying no date.
For heavy goods vehicles the Crit'Air 4 line falls at diesel first registered up to 30 September 2009.
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-11.
This is owed on the country's roads, not inside this scheme. What France asks, with the source