Driving in Brescia: Low emission zone

Brescia, Italy · Low emission zone

Official name Misure permanenti per la limitazione del traffico veicolare (Regione Lombardia)

In force in Brescia right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Rome

  • In force Cars and other autoveicoli, except urban, interurban and suburban M3 buses in local public transport service: petrol, methane and LPG up to Euro 1, diesel up to Euro 4. The Euro 5 diesel step for cars (M1) was to start on 1 October 2026 and was postponed to 1 October 2027 by d.G.R. XII/6846 of 28 September 2026, so it is not encoded here
  • In force Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles of class Euro 0, across the whole region
  • In force Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles of class Euro 1/I, in the urban areas of Fascia 1 municipalities — which includes Brescia — from 1 October to 31 March only

The region and the council both exempt public holidays falling inside the week — "escluse quelle festive infrasettimanali" — and we hold no official, dated and reusable list of the public holidays currently in force in Italy. On an Italian public holiday falling Monday to Friday this page will therefore say the restriction is in force when the publishers say it is not. Saturdays and Sundays are handled correctly, because both publishers name the weekdays themselves rather than leaving "feriali" to do that work.

A verdict of "in force" does not settle a driver's case here. Three things decide it together: the hour, the vehicle's fuel and Euro class, and which road you are on. A Euro 4 diesel is banned at 10:00 on a Tuesday on an ordinary Brescia street and not banned at the same minute on the Tangenziale Sud, which the council classes as a regional-interest R1 road outside the scheme.

⚠️ The area is the built-up part of the municipality rather than a centre with a gate, so there is no threshold to cross and nothing to notice. A driver who never approaches the middle of Brescia is inside the scheme for the whole of their stay.

🚨 THE DIESEL LINE WAS TO CHANGE ON 1 OCTOBER 2026 AND IT NO LONGER DOES. This timetable said until 29 September 2026 that Euro 5 diesel cars (M1) would be caught in the same hours from that date. On 28 September 2026, two days before it was to take effect, Regione Lombardia postponed the Euro 5 diesel step to 1 October 2027 by d.G.R. XII/6846, implementing decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, and replaced the 2025 Allegato 1 with one that stops at Euro 4/IV diesel. ✅ The hours are unchanged and the set of vehicles caught is unchanged; what changed is that it does not grow this October.

⚠️ The council's own page, which supplies this record's hours, is the 2024-2025 edition and carries no Euro 5 clause. Its watched strings will keep holding after the step arrives. That is why the diesel fact is watched on the region's page instead, and why a reader comparing the two should not conclude that the council has exempted Brescia from something.

The two-stroke rules are separate timetables and are encoded separately. Euro 0 two-strokes are banned across the whole region at every hour of every day, which no car rule here does; Euro 1/I two-strokes follow the weekday window but only for the winter half of the year.

M3 local-public-transport buses on Euro 0, 1 or 2 diesel are banned across the region Monday to Sunday round the clock, and a separate national rule has banned petrol and diesel M2 and M3 public-transport vehicles up to and including Euro 3 since 1 January 2024. Neither is in this timetable, because neither is a vehicle a visitor drives.

The region may suspend the ban for exceptional meteorological or social events, naming local-public-transport strikes as an example. Such a suspension is announced by the region and cannot be anticipated by this schedule.

Brescia also sits under the region's temporary anti-smog measures, a different scheme on a different trigger: they can be switched on between 1 October and 31 March when the provincial PM10 daily limit is exceeded for long enough, they add classes to the ban, and — unlike this permanent scheme — they can apply on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Nothing on this page tells you whether they are active today.

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

What applies

Brescia does not run its own low-emission zone. The restriction a visitor meets here belongs to Regione Lombardia, it covers the built-up area of the whole municipality, and it is in force every month of the year from Monday to Friday between 07:30 and 19:30.

Brescia is in Fascia 1, the stricter of the region's two bands, so the diesel floor is Euro 5 — a diesel car of Euro 4 or below may not circulate in those hours — and petrol, methane and LPG vehicles are caught at Euro 1 and below. 🚨 THE EURO 5 DIESEL STEP THAT WAS TO ARRIVE ON 1 OCTOBER 2026 HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY A YEAR, AND THIS PAGE CARRIED THE OLD DATE UNTIL 29 SEPTEMBER 2026.

Brescia is one of the four Lombard municipalities over 100 000 inhabitants that the 2025 regional decision named for that step. On 28 September 2026, acting on decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, the region resolved by d.G.R.

XII/6846 «il rinvio delle limitazioni alla circolazione per i veicoli diesel Euro 5 al 1° ottobre 2027», and its Allegato 1 — which replaces the 2025 one outright — now stops at Euro 4/IV diesel and contains no Euro 5 clause and no 100 000-inhabitant clause at all. ✅ So a Euro 5 diesel car may circulate here through the 2026-2027 winter.

Nothing is for sale — no charge, no visitor day ticket, no permit — and the only ways through are the region's closed lists of exempt vehicles and exempt journeys, or MoVe-In, a year-long black-box scheme that trades the clock for a kilometre allowance.

What makes this page worth reading before you arrive is Brescia's own carve-out, which the council publishes in detail: the Tangenziale Sud is a regional-interest R1 road and therefore outside the ban altogether, and the council names the exact approach roads that let a banned vehicle reach four park-and-ride metro car parks without breaking it. ⚠️ Read the diesel section here rather than the council's own page: the council's text is still the 2024-2025 edition and says nothing about the Euro 5 step.

Source: Comune di Brescia, read 2026-09-22
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Comune di Brescia — "Limitazioni al Traffico Veicolare 2024-2025", filed under Amministrazione / Documenti e dati / Documenti (tecnico) di supporto and subtitled "Misure strutturali permanenti e temporanee circa la circolazione veicolare". The council's own statement of the scheme, including the municipality's carve-out streets

Daily charge

There is nothing to pay and nothing to buy. The scheme bans the listed emission classes from circulating during the hours and then publishes two closed lists — vehicles excluded by what they are, journeys derogated by what they are for — with no entry fee, no visitor ticket and no registration a banned driver could complete on arrival.

Brescia's own page adds no charge of its own and refers every question of scope back to the regional measures. MoVe-In, the one alternative, is not a payment for entry either: it substitutes an annual kilometre allowance, measured by a black box fitted to the vehicle, for the time-based ban, and it runs for a year from activation rather than for a visit.

When it operates

07:30 to 19:30, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays that fall within the week, from 1 January to 31 December — and Brescia's council states the same window in its own words: "Dal 1° gennaio al 31 dicembre di ogni anno (quindi tutto l'anno), nelle giornate dal lunedì al venerdì, escluse quelle festive infrasettimanali, dalle 07,30 alle 19,30 sono interdetti alla circolazione".

There is no seasonal variation: this is not a winter anti-smog order and it does not lift in spring. Three other timetables belong to the same scheme and are not this window. Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles of Euro 0 are banned across the whole region seven days a week, round the clock, all year.

Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles of Euro 1/I are banned Monday to Friday 07:30–19:30 in the urban areas of Fascia 1 municipalities — Brescia is one — but only from 1 October to 31 March. Urban, suburban and interurban M3 buses in local public transport service running on Euro 0, 1 or 2 diesel are banned across the region Monday to Sunday, twenty-four hours a day, all year.

Source: Comune di Brescia, read 2026-09-22
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Comune di Brescia — "Limitazioni al Traffico Veicolare 2024-2025", the opening statement of the permanent measures, read with Regione Lombardia's paragraphs A1, A2 and A3 on its own standing page for the scheme

Area covered

The urban area of the comune di Brescia.

The region attaches the limits to the centro abitato as each municipality has perimetered and signposted it, and states the fallback where a municipality has not: "In assenza della perimetrazione del centro abitato e della apposizione della prevista segnaletica da parte del Comune le limitazioni si applicano all'intero territorio comunale." Three road categories are carved out region-wide — motorways, roads classified of regional interest R1, and the connecting stretches, motorway junctions and park-and-ride car parks at peripheral public-transport stations inside the restricted area — and Brescia is the clearest case in this corpus of a municipality spelling that carve-out out on the ground.

Its own page names the R1 road: "Strade di interesse regionale R1 (Tangenziale Sud)".

It then names the connecting stretches — "Tangenziale Ovest, via Oberdan, tratto tra Tangenziale Montelungo e Tangenziale Ovest, Tangenziale Montelungo" — and four specific approaches to park-and-ride: the Ortomercato forecourt for vehicles coming off the Tangenziale Sud via via Orzinuovi; the via Chiappa metro car parks for vehicles coming off the Tangenziale Sud via via Serenissima; the car parks east of the via Borgosatollo fairground and the Poliambulanza metro car parks for vehicles coming off the Tangenziale Sud via via Dario Morelli; and "Ai parcheggi della stazione metropolitana Prealpino per i veicoli provenienti dalla Valtrompia o comunque da nord rispetto alla città capoluogo." The region's own road schedule agrees at a different level of detail, listing the SP BS11 "Tangenziale sud di Brescia" by kilometre — from 0+120 in Roncadelle, from 3+900 to 14+800 in the comune di Brescia, and from 14+800 to 17+600 in Rezzato.

Source: Comune di Brescia, read 2026-09-22
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Comune di Brescia — "Limitazioni al Traffico Veicolare 2024-2025", section "Ambito di applicazione", read with Regione Lombardia's statement of territorial scope and with the region's own annex identifying the connecting road stretches

Why there is no map here
The boundary exists in two published forms and neither yields geometry we can take. At regional level there is "Mappa ambito di applicazione — Comuni di fascia 1 e fascia 2", a shaded drawing of Lombardy showing which municipalities are in which band; the authoritative form of that same fact is the 570-name list this record already cites and watches, so the drawing adds nothing better. At municipal level the operative perimeter is Brescia's centro abitato as perimetered and signposted under the Highway Code, and the region is explicit that the limits attach to that. The council does not publish it as data: its page describes the scheme and names the carve-out roads in prose, with no map, no shapefile and no download. So the line a polygon would have to draw is one the publisher marks on the ground with signs rather than on a map, and deriving it from the street list would be asserting the answer rather than citing it. ⚠️ This is not Genoa's case (D-251), where a perimeter is published as a street sequence and only the vector export is missing. Here nothing below the municipal boundary is published at all — the region's own fallback sentence says as much, by providing that the whole municipal territory applies wherever the signs are absent.

The authority's own map: Regione Lombardia — Direzione Generale Ambiente e Clima

Petrol standard

Euro 1 and below, across petrol, methane and LPG alike, in both of the region's bands. The permanent measures set no further petrol step: there is no Euro 2, Euro 3 or Euro 4 petrol line anywhere in them, and the phase-in that was to start on 1 October 2026, and that the region postponed to 1 October 2027 on 28 September 2026, was written for diesel only.

Nothing about a petrol, methane or LPG vehicle changed either way. A petrol vehicle fitted with a natural-gas or LPG system, from the factory or retrofitted and including bi-fuel installations that keep the petrol tank, is excluded from the ban outright provided the vehicle is of class Euro 2/II or better.

Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles are governed by their own rule rather than by fuel, and it is harsher than any car line here: Euro 0 two-strokes are banned across the entire region, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.

Source: Regione Lombardia, read 2026-09-29
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Regione Lombardia — "Misure permanenti per migliorare la qualità dell'aria", paragraph A1 (the vehicle classes) and the list "Sono esclusi dal fermo della circolazione"

Diesel standard

Euro 4 and below. The region bans diesel of Euro 0, Euro 1/I, Euro 2/II and Euro 3/III in both Fascia 1 and Fascia 2 municipalities, and then bans Euro 4/IV diesel as well in Fascia 1 and in the Fascia 2 municipalities over 30 000 inhabitants, which the region now names as four — Varese, Lecco, Vigevano and Abbiategrasso (⚠️ this list read five until 28 September 2026, when S. Giuliano Milanese was dropped from it).

Brescia is Fascia 1 — the region's band list names it in the ELENCO COMUNI FASCIA 1, and the legend describes Fascia 1 as the Milan, Bergamo and Brescia agglomerations plus the Pavia, Lodi, Cremona and Mantua provincial capitals and their belt municipalities — so the diesel floor here is Euro 5. 🚨 THE EURO 6 STEP WAS TWO DAYS AWAY AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 1 OCTOBER 2027.

Until 28 September 2026 the governing act was d.G.R. n. 4843 del 28/07/2025, which confined a Euro 5/V diesel step to "Comuni aventi popolazione superiore ai 100.000 abitanti (Milano, Brescia, Monza e Bergamo)" and phased it by vehicle category, starting with M1 cars on 1 October 2026.

On 28 September 2026 the region adopted d.G.R. XII/6846, which resolves «il rinvio delle limitazioni alla circolazione per i veicoli diesel Euro 5 al 1° ottobre 2027» in implementation of decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, and whose Allegato 1 «modifica e sostituisce l'Allegato 1 della d.G.R n.

4843 del 28/07/2025». ✅ Read on 2026-09-29, that replacement Allegato 1 lists the banned classes in full and stops at Euro 4/IV diesel: there is no Euro 5 row in it, and its scope section names Fascia 1, Fascia 2 and the 30 000-inhabitant threshold but no 100 000-inhabitant threshold anywhere.

The region's own page states the consequence in terms: «non entrano in vigore dal 1° ottobre 2026 le limitazioni per i veicoli Euro 5 diesel previste dalla delibera n. 4843 del 28 luglio 2025, mentre restano confermate le limitazioni per le altre categorie fino a Euro 4 diesel». ⚠️ The later phases of the 2025 scheme fell with the first.

That decision also set M2, N1 and N2 for 1 October 2027 and N3 and M3 for 1 October 2028; since its Allegato 1 has been replaced outright rather than amended date by date, this record states no future date for them. 🚨 Brescia's own page does not carry that step.

Read on 2026-09-22 it states the permanent classes as Euro 0 and 1 petrol/gas and Euro 0 to 4 diesel and stops there, with no Euro 5 clause and no reference to 1 October 2026 — it is the 2024-2025 edition and has not been reissued.

A diesel of any class fitted with an abatement system effective against both particulates and nitrogen oxides is excluded, but the bar is high and was deliberately raised: the system must hold real-driving emissions at or below the values set for Euro 6 D / Euro VI diesel, and since 1 October 2024 a particulate-only filter no longer counts for any vehicle.

Source: Regione Lombardia, read 2026-09-29
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Regione Lombardia — "Misure permanenti per migliorare la qualità dell'aria", paragraph A1 and the closing calendar for the Euro 5/V diesel phase-in

Penalty if you do not comply
€75.00 The regional law sets a band rather than a figure: from €75.00 to €450.00. The amount recorded here is the bottom of that band, because that is the only number in it a driver is certain to owe.Source: Consiglio regionale della Lombardia, read 2026-09-22
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Consiglio regionale della Lombardia — Banca dati delle leggi regionali, Legge Regionale 11 dicembre 2006, N. 24 "Norme per la prevenzione e la riduzione delle emissioni in atmosfera a tutela della salute e dell'ambiente", Title IV, Chapter I, Art. 27 (Sanzioni), comma 11

How to comply
  • Start with your fuel and Euro class, because that is the whole of your case. Petrol, methane and LPG: banned at Euro 1 and below. Diesel: banned at Euro 4 and below. Brescia is a Fascia 1 municipality, so the stricter of the region's two diesel lines applies. ✅ A Euro 5 diesel car was to be caught from 1 October 2026; the region postponed that step to 1 October 2027 by d.G.R. XII/6846 of 28 September 2026, so it does not apply this winter.
  • Then check the clock: 07:30–19:30, Monday to Friday, every month of the year. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays falling inside the week are outside it, and so is every evening and night. A banned vehicle that arrives after 19:30 and leaves before 07:30 never meets the rule.
  • 🚨 If you are passing rather than stopping, the Tangenziale Sud is the answer. Brescia's council names it as a road of regional interest R1, and the ban does not apply on R1 roads at all — nor on motorways, nor on the junctions and connecting stretches between them.
  • 🚨 If you want to leave the car and take the metro, the council has published the routes that make that legal in a banned vehicle. From the Tangenziale Sud: via via Orzinuovi to the Ortomercato forecourt; via via Serenissima to the via Chiappa metro car parks; via via Dario Morelli to the car parks east of the via Borgosatollo fairground and to the Poliambulanza metro car parks. From the north or from the Valtrompia: to the Prealpino metro car parks. The Tangenziale Ovest, via Oberdan, the stretch between the Tangenziale Montelungo and the Tangenziale Ovest, and the Tangenziale Montelungo are also outside the ban.
  • Electric, hybrid and multimodal vehicles are excluded outright, along with light electric city vehicles, micro electric vehicles and ultralight electric vehicles. A petrol vehicle with a natural-gas or LPG system — factory-fitted or retrofitted, bi-fuel included — is excluded if it is Euro 2/II or better.
  • A retrofit filter on a diesel is not automatically enough. The abatement system has to be effective against nitrogen oxides as well as particulates, holding real-driving emissions at or below the Euro 6 D / Euro VI diesel values, and since 1 October 2024 a particulate-only device no longer qualifies for any vehicle class.
  • Historic and collector vehicles are excluded under article 60 comma 4 of the Highway Code, as are vehicles over twenty years old meeting article 215 of DPR 495/1992 and carrying a FIVA identity document from a FIVA-affiliated collectors' association.
  • Car pooling is a derogation with a stated threshold and no paperwork: "veicoli con a bordo almeno tre persone (car pooling)". Three people aboard and that journey is not caught.
  • Other derogated journeys, each needing its own evidence: public-service or public-utility vehicles on emergency maintenance, identifiable by badge or employer's certificate; vehicles carrying someone undergoing indispensable and non-deferrable treatment for serious illness, with the medical certificate; and driving-school vehicles on lessons and tests for the C, CE, D, DE, C1, C1E, D1, D1E and BE licences.
  • Vehicles displaying the disabled badge and used for that person's journeys are derogated, as are mayor-authorised disabled-assistance vehicles. Diplomatic (CD) and consular (CC) plates are derogated. So is a vehicle travelling to a booked roadworthiness test, for that journey only.
  • MoVe-In is the only way to keep a banned vehicle moving inside the hours, and it is a year-long service rather than a visitor pass: a black box goes on the vehicle, the time-based ban stops applying, and an annual kilometre allowance replaces it — for a car, 800 km at Euro 0, 1 600 km at Euro 1/I, 3 200 km at Euro 2/II diesel, 5 600 km at Euro 3/III diesel and 6 400 km at Euro 4/IV diesel. ⚠️ Motorway kilometres count against the MoVe-In allowance even though motorways are outside the time-based ban, and hitting the threshold stops the vehicle for the rest of the service year at every hour.
  • Do not ask the council for a personal exception: the region states that "I Comuni non possono concedere deroghe speciali e personali al di fuori di quelle previste dai provvedimenti regionali."
  • ⚠️ Brescia's own page is the 2024-2025 edition and does not mention the Euro 5 diesel step — and since 28 September 2026 that silence no longer disagrees with the region, which postponed the step to 1 October 2027. 🚫 Do not read that as the council page having been right all along: it was the 2024-2025 edition before the postponement and it is the 2024-2025 edition after it, and it would have read exactly the same way if the step had taken effect. Where the two publishers differ, still take the region's — it is the one that makes this rule.
Source: Regione Lombardia, read 2026-09-29
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Regione Lombardia — "Misure permanenti per migliorare la qualità dell'aria": the exclusions list, the derogations list, the "Ambito di applicazione" carve-out, the "Controlli e sanzioni" paragraph and the MoVe-In summary, read with the region's MoVe-In service page for the kilometre thresholds and with the Comune di Brescia's own carve-out

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2026-11-05.

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