Milan, Italy · Low emission zone
In force in Milan right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:03 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 19:30 local time.
Milan's own words are that public holidays are excluded (festivi). We have found no official, dated and reusable list of the public holidays currently in force in Italy, so we cannot apply that exclusion. On an Italian public holiday this page will say Area B is in force when the city says it is not. The error only ever runs that way — we would rather send you round the zone than into a fine.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Area B is Milan's low-emission zone. There is nothing to pay: vehicles that meet the emission rules enter free, and vehicles that do not are banned outright. It is active Monday to Friday, 07:30–19:30, excluding public holidays.
Besides the most polluting vehicles, it also bans goods vehicles over 12 metres long, vehicles carrying dangerous goods, and vehicles without blind-spot warning systems.
Area B has no charge. The Comune di Milano page read on 2026-09-02 states that admitted vehicles pay nothing; non-compliant vehicles are banned rather than charged. Milan's paid scheme is the separate Area C.
Monday to Friday, 07:30–19:30. Public holidays excluded.
The Comune di Milano page read on 2026-09-02 says only that Area B is delimited by the blue gates and points to an interactive map; it does not describe the boundary in words. Not restated from general knowledge.
Petrol cars up to and including Euro 3 are banned: Euro 0, 1 and 2 were already banned, and Euro 3 has been banned since 1 October 2025. Euro 4 petrol is banned from 1 October 2028.
Diesel cars up to and including Euro 5 are banned, whatever particulate filter they carry. Light Euro 6 diesel A-B-C is banned from 1 October 2028, and Euro 6 diesel D_TEMP and D from 1 October 2030.
The Comune di Milano Area B pages read on 2026-09-02 do not state the fine for entering with a banned vehicle. Not estimated.
This page cannot re-check itself. Comune di Milano refuses our checker (last tried 2026-10-01), so every figure above stands exactly as a person last read it. Nothing will run on 2026-12-01: on that date we stop treating this page as current and take it out of our index, rather than leave it looking fresh.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.