Driving in Strasbourg: ZFE

Strasbourg, France · Low emission zone

Official name Zone à Faibles Émissions mobilité (ZFE-m) de l'Eurométropole de Strasbourg

In force in Strasbourg 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. A Crit'Air 0, 1, 2 or 3 vehicle is unaffected at every hour today.

The dates in the timetable are bans, not hours: Crit'Air 3 from January 2027 and Crit'Air 2 from January 2028. This schedule answers only whether the zone is operating.

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

What applies

Strasbourg's low emission zone covers the whole Eurométropole — every commune, not just the city — and it is on around the clock. Today it bans Crit'Air 4 and worse; Crit'Air 3 is banned from January 2027 and Crit'Air 2 from January 2028, though only four communes have committed to that last step so far.

The Eurométropole runs a teaching year before each ban in which checks happen but no fine is issued, so what is enforced today is the Crit'Air 4 ban, not the ones announced for later.

Source: Eurométropole de Strasbourg, read 2026-09-11
Daily charge

There is no charge and no day pass. A vehicle either carries a permitted Crit'Air class and may enter, or it may not. The cost is the Crit'Air sticker itself, which is a national one-off rather than a Strasbourg charge.

When it operates

In force 24 hours a day, every day.

Source: Eurométropole de Strasbourg, read 2026-09-11
Area covered

The whole of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg. Two motorway stretches are outside it: the A4 north of the A4/A35 interchange at Vendenheim, and the A35 north of the same interchange.

Source: Eurométropole de Strasbourg, read 2026-09-11
Why there is no map here
The national register publishes an openly licensed outline for this zone and we measured it rather than trusting it. Every Eurométropole commune we could test falls inside it and two towns outside the Eurométropole fall outside it, so the shape is the right one. What we could not test is the part the Eurométropole states in words: the A4 and the A35 north of the Vendenheim interchange are outside the zone, and checking whether the outline honours those carve-outs needs road geometry we do not have. Rather than serve a boundary that may tell you a motorway is restricted when it is not, we warn at city level and point you at the register.

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

Petrol standard

Strasbourg states the rule as a Crit'Air class, not as a Euro standard or a registration year: what decides access is the sticker. Crit'Air 4 and worse are banned today. The mapping from fuel and registration date to a Crit'Air class is national and is not restated here from the Eurométropole's pages, which do not give it.

Diesel standard

As for petrol: the rule is expressed as a Crit'Air class, and the class mapping is national rather than Strasbourg's to state.

Penalty if you do not comply

The Eurométropole says a driver who breaches the ban, or who has no Crit'Air sticker on the windscreen, faces a fine 'en accord avec la règlementation en vigueur' without naming an amount. The amount is set nationally. Not estimated here.

How to comply
  • Check your Crit'Air class before you travel: Crit'Air 4, 5 and unclassified vehicles are banned today.
  • A Crit'Air sticker must be displayed on the windscreen. Driving without one is itself an offence here, separately from whether your vehicle would have been allowed in.
  • The ban covers every kind of motorised vehicle, not only cars.
  • Each ban is preceded by a teaching year in which checks are made but no fine is issued. That is why Crit'Air 3, banned from January 2027, is checked but not fined today.
  • Enforcement is by national and municipal police to begin with, moving to automated camera enforcement later.
  • Exemptions exist for certain vehicles; the Eurométropole publishes them on a dedicated page.
Source: Eurométropole de Strasbourg, read 2026-09-11

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-10.

Before you set off

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