Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Piraeus has one driving restriction on our books: the Περιορισμός κυκλοφορίας φορτηγών και ωράριο τροφοδοσίας στις κεντρικές… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-21, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-20.
Piraeus is the other half of the same Attica decision that governs Athens, and it is not a variant of it — it asks a different question about a different measurement on a named list of streets rather than across a municipality. Fourteen central avenues and streets of Piraeus, the waterfront ones among them, carry two rules, both aimed at goods vehicles whose USEFUL LOAD exceeds 1.5 tonnes.
The first is a supply timetable: on those streets such a vehicle may load and unload round the clock except between 07:00 and 10:30. The second is a circulation restriction, which is the stricter of the two and the one a driver is likelier to meet by accident: on those same streets a goods vehicle over 1.5 tonnes useful load is restricted from 07:00 to 11:00 and again from 14:30 to 16:00.
Nothing is charged, nothing is bought, and no exhaust class is mentioned anywhere — this scheme sorts vehicles by what they can carry and by the clock, and a Euro 6 lorry and a twenty-year-old one are the same vehicle to it. A car is never in it at any hour.
The exemptions that run through the whole instrument apply here too, and one of them is about the vehicle rather than the errand: a purely electric vehicle of up to 2.5 tonnes gross is outside the restrictions. The decision is open-ended — it runs from publication until a newer decision is issued — and two supplements in 2025 amended it without replacing it, neither of them touching Piraeus.