Driving in Berlin

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

The short answer for Berlin

Berlin has one driving restriction on our books: the Umweltzone Berlin (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

Sources last read on 2026-09-02, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-01.

The schemes, one by one

• Umweltzone Berlin Low emission zone

  Berlin's Umweltzone covers the inner city inside the inner S-Bahn ring, and you may only drive in it with a green emissions sticker (grüne Plakette) on the windscreen. Foreign-registered vehicles need the sticker too. Driving or even parking inside without one, and without an exemption, is an administrative offence carrying a €100 fine.

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Before you set off

Germany also has a national requirement

• Plakette nach der 35. BImSchV (Umweltplakette)Motor vehicles of categories M and N as defined in Annex II A of Directive 70/156/EEC — that is, passenger vehicles and goods vehicles. Stickers exist for pollutant groups 2, 3 and 4; group 1, the most polluting, gets no sticker.

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

Other cities in Germany

• Ludwigsburgabout 499 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Munichabout 503 km away, 1 verified scheme
• Stuttgartabout 511 km away, 2 verified schemes