Genoa, Italy · Limited traffic zone
Official name Zona a Traffico Limitato telecontrollata "Molo"
In force in Genoa right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Rome
Nothing here is conditional on the clock. The zone is valid on every day of the year through the whole 24 hours, so this timetable answers "in force" whenever it is asked. What decides a driver's case at Molo is the plate, not the hour.
Public holidays make no difference to the ban, and the operator says so about the hardware as well as the rule: the electronic gates listed for the city are active every day 0–24, public holidays included. Holidays do narrow some permit classes, whose windows are written "giorni feriali" — working days — which makes those days stricter for a permit holder, not looser for anyone else.
⚠️ The midday pedestrian switch a driver may have read about in Genoa is not here. Via Cairoli, where the ZTL lapses between 11:30 and 19:00 in favour of a stricter pedestrian area, is in the Centro Storico ZTL's Sector 4 and has nothing to do with Molo.
Molo is one of nine Genoese ZTLs and a permit is issued for one ZTL or sector at a time. Boccadasse, Bolzaneto, Nervi (Gazzolo), Nervi (Oberdan), Rivarolo, Vernazzola, Caracciolo and the Centro Storico are separate zones with their own boundaries and, in three cases, their own extra permit categories that do not exist here.
Genoa runs a second scheme over different ground and on its own terms: the restriction on the most polluting vehicles, whose outer area is the whole comune di Genova. The ZTL rulebook expressly excludes those areas from its own scope and states that the measure acts autonomously and alongside it. Being clear of this zone says nothing about that one, and this record does not hold it.
One thing we looked for and did not find, stated rather than guessed: the Disciplinare never mentions taxis or hire cars with driver among the ZTL's own categories — the word does not occur in its 54 pages. So we do not tell a driver that arriving by taxi is exempt from this ZTL; we do not know that from the publisher, and the gap is the publisher's, not a lapse in the search.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Molo is the seaward edge of Genoa's old town — Via del Molo and the lanes around Piazza San Marco, between the Porta del Molo and Piazza Cavour — and it is closed to unauthorised vehicles every day of the year through the whole 24 hours. There is no hour at which it opens. One camera watches it, in Via del Molo, and the operator states that every Genoese gate is live all days 0–24 including public holidays.
The camera reads plates remotely with nobody on the spot, so an unauthorised entry is not stopped at the gate: it is recorded, and dealt with afterwards by post. Two limits keep a vehicle out whatever its paperwork says, and Molo is one of only two Genoese zones where the operator publishes both: access is for vehicles of not more than 3.5 tonnes laden and not more than 2.10 metres wide.
For a visitor there is one opening and it costs the visitor nothing — a hotel, guesthouse or B&B inside the zone holds an annual authorisation for its guests' cars and reports your plate to the operator within 48 hours of your entry. You buy nothing and display nothing; you hand the property your registration number before you drive in.
Electric vehicles are the other free way in, on a free annual windscreen pass good for every ZTL in the city, and bicycles need nothing anywhere. ⚠️ Molo is not the Centro Storico ZTL. They touch along Piazza Cavour, they are governed by the same rulebook, and a permit is issued for one zone or sector at a time — the old-town permit is not a Molo permit.
And Genoa's emissions scheme under Ordinanza Sindacale 256/2025 covers the whole comune on separate terms that this record does not hold.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Molo", the zone page of the company the Comune di Genova names as the responsible office for ZTL access, read together with chapter 3.2 of the Disciplinare it links and with the operator's own gate and boundary pages, all cited separately below
There is no day ticket for a visitor here, and unlike two of its neighbours Molo does not even have a zone-specific daily permit on the books. Boccadasse has one — BOC_01, €11.00 a day — and Nervi has one — NER_01, €11.00 a day — and each is written for a named local purpose.
Molo has neither: its access section says in one line that entry is governed by chapter 2 of the Disciplinare and adds nothing, so the only prices that reach this zone are the general category tariffs, and every daily one among them belongs to a trade rather than to a traveller — emergency call-out, contracted services, cleaning firms, prepared-food delivery, commercial agents, flour and bread deliveries, catering, doctors, temporary care.
The route that does cover a visitor is bought by the accommodation and is annual, not daily: €27.00 for a property with 1 to 10 rooms, €54.00 for 11 to 20 and €100.00 above 20 rooms, covering all of that property's accesses every day 00:00–24:00 and valid for the ZTL or sector it belongs to. The guest pays nothing and buys nothing.
Electric vehicles are free everywhere in the city, on a windscreen pass that is itself free.
All day, every day, all year. The operator and the rulebook say it in the same words — the ZTL "Molo" is valid on every day of the year and through the whole 24 hours — and nothing anywhere takes it off for a weekday, a weekend, a holiday or a season. The gate agrees: Genova Parcheggi states that the electronic gates listed for the city are active every day 0–24, public holidays included.
So the hour you arrive decides nothing at Molo; whether your plate is on the authorised list decides everything. Hours do appear in the scheme, but they belong to permit classes and are narrower than the zone rather than wider — wholesale customers 08:00–19:00 on working days, commercial agents 08:00–20:00 on working days, contracted services 06:00–20:00 on working days, garage customers 08:00–19:00 on working days.
Guests of accommodation and electric vehicles are the classes written 00:00–24:00. ⚠️ Molo has no midday switch of its own. The 11:30–19:00 pedestrian changeover that a driver may have read about in Genoa belongs to Via Cairoli, which is in the Centro Storico ZTL's Sector 4 and is not here.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Molo", the validity sentence, read with "I Varchi elettronici", the operator's gate page, for the statement that the gates run 0–24 on every day including holidays
One perimeter on the waterfront side of the old town, published street by street rather than as a shape. The rulebook's own delimitation reads: Via del Molo and the adjacent Piazza San Marco, Piazzetta Porta del Molo, Mura del Molo, Mura della Malapaga, and an ideal line joining Mura della Malapaga to Piazza Cavour — with Piazza Cavour itself excluded, outside the zone.
The operator's boundary page carries the same perimeter and says one more thing the rulebook does not: that ideal line runs through the end sections of Vico chiuso Gelsa and Vico Lavatoi, and both of those are inside the area. That detail matters at the only corner where the boundary is a line rather than a street name.
One electronically controlled gate serves the zone, in Via del Molo. ⚠️ Molo is a separate zone from the Centro Storico ZTL, not a part of it, and a permit is issued for one ZTL or sector at a time — the two meet at Piazza Cavour, which is excluded from Molo and is a boundary street of Centro Storico's Sector 2.
Genoa's other seven ZTLs — Boccadasse, Bolzaneto, Nervi (Gazzolo), Nervi (Oberdan), Rivarolo, Vernazzola and Caracciolo — are separate ground again, and this record does not hold them.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Confini", the operator's street-by-street perimeter for every Genoese ZTL, read with §3.2.1 of the Disciplinare, which gives the same perimeter without the two vico names
The authority's own map: Comune di Genova — Direzione Mobilità e Trasporti, open-data catalogue…
No Euro class lets a petrol car into Molo and none keeps it out: entry here turns on authorisation, not on the exhaust. The rulebook never sets an emission floor for entering any Genoese ZTL, for any fuel. What fuel does decide is the electric case.
A fully electric vehicle has free access to every ZTL in Genoa on all days 00:00–24:00 for as long as the errand strictly needs — cars, motorcycles and mopeds alike, and goods vehicles on the same terms — and is issued a single free annual windscreen pass valid across the whole city.
The pass is obligatory even though the access is free, and where a tariff is scaled by how many vehicles a household declares, electric ones are not counted in.
Emission class does reach the price of a goods-vehicle permit, where methane, LPG, hybrid or electric pays €15.00 a year, Euro 3 or better €27.00, Euro 2 or Euro 1 €60.00 and pre-Euro €300.00 — but that is the cost of a trader's permit, not a threshold for getting in. ⚠️ Genoa's actual emissions restriction is a different scheme with its own order, and the ZTL rulebook expressly puts it outside its own scope and says it operates autonomously alongside.
This record does not hold it.
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Panoramica", the general principles of ZTL access that run across every Genoese zone: the electric-vehicle regime and the free annual pass valid city-wide
A diesel car stands exactly where a petrol one does: the Euro class changes nothing about whether it may enter Molo, and authorisation decides. Diesel does not appear in the ZTL access rules at all.
What does bar a vehicle here, whatever it burns, is size, and Molo is one of the two Genoese zones where the operator publishes both figures on the zone page itself: access is for vehicles whose laden mass does not exceed 3.5 tonnes and whose width does not exceed 2.10 metres.
The tonnage is the rulebook's own general ceiling — chapter 2 states that every type of permit in the document is issuable only to vehicles whose laden mass does not exceed 3.5 tonnes — and it therefore applies across the city.
The 2.10 metre width is not in the rulebook: measured on 2026-09-22, the string does not occur in its 54 pages, and it is published by the operator for this zone and for the Centro Storico only. That is a count, not an impression — all eight of the operator's zone pages were checked for the sentence on 2026-09-22 and six returned nothing: Boccadasse, Nervi, Vernazzola, Bolzaneto, Rivarolo and Caracciolo.
Do not read the width across to any of them. ⚠️ The restriction that is about diesel in Genoa is the separate scheme under Ordinanza Sindacale 256/2025, which the ZTL rulebook excludes from its scope; do not read this field as saying an old diesel is free to drive in Genoa.
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — Determinazione Dirigenziale n. 2023-395.0.0.-3 of 06/07/2023 approving "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato", chapter 2 general conditions, letter g) on the 3.5 tonne ceiling, and §1.1 on the scope of the rulebook
Genoa does not state a figure for the offence a visitor would actually commit, and we will not supply one. Driving into a ZTL without authorisation is an offence under the Codice della Strada, not under the city's rulebook, and the operator says only that an unauthorised entry "sarà segnalato per l'applicazione delle sanzioni previste" — reported for the application of the penalties provided for.
The 54-page Disciplinare uses the word "sanzione" exactly once, in that sentence, and prices nothing.
What is worth knowing instead is how the offence is detected here, because it changes what a driver should expect: the single camera in Via del Molo reads plates remotely with no officer present, so nobody stops you and nothing happens at the barrier — the operator states in as many words that the violation will be established later and without immediate challenge.
A driver can pass the gate, spend a pleasant afternoon and hear about it by post weeks later.
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — Determinazione Dirigenziale n. 2023-395.0.0.-3 of 06/07/2023, "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato", §3.2.3 pointing Molo's access at chapter 2 in full, with categories AUT_09b and AUT_09c on guests of accommodation and their validity "per la Z.T.L. o Settore di riferimento"
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "ZTL Molo", the zone page. The operative statement for this zone: that it is valid every day of the year through the whole 24 hours, that access is for vehicles of not more than 3.5 tonnes laden and not more than 2.10 metres wide, the remote camera enforcement with no immediate challenge, and the list of free, contrassegno and paid categories. Genova Parcheggi is the company the Comune di Genova names as the responsible office for ZTL access on its own service record
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Confini", the operator's own street-by-street delimitation of every Genoese ZTL. For Molo it gives the perimeter and adds the detail the rulebook omits: the ideal line between Mura della Malapaga and Piazza Cavour runs through the end sections of Vico chiuso Gelsa and Vico Lavatoi, both inside the area
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "I Varchi elettronici", the operator's gate page: Molo is watched by one camera, in Via del Molo, and every gate listed for the city is active on all days 0–24, public holidays included
Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. — "Panoramica", the general principles that run across every Genoese ZTL: the list of the zones, the electric-vehicle regime with its free annual pass, free access for cycles, the 48-hour regularisation for an unregistered vehicle of an authorised category, and the 3.5 tonne ceiling on every permit type
Comune di Genova — service record "Richiedere permesso di accesso ad Area ZTL". The city's own page: it names all nine Zone a Traffico Limitato including Molo, and names Genova Parcheggi S.p.A. as the responsible office and as a public company the Comune created. The freshest statement the authority itself makes about this scheme
Comune di Genova, Direzione Smart Mobility — Determinazione Dirigenziale n. 2023-395.0.0.-3, adopted and executive from 06/07/2023, approving the document "Disciplina dell'accesso alle Zone a Traffico Limitato". The governing instrument, 54 pages. §3.2 is Molo's own chapter: the perimeter, the 24-hour validity, and an access rule of one sentence — entry is governed by chapter 2 of the Disciplinare, with nothing added. Chapter 2 carries the 3.5 tonne ceiling on every permit type and the accommodation categories
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-21.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.