Riccione, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Limitazioni alla circolazione e regolamentazione impianti a biomassa legnosa nel territorio del Comune di Riccione — periodo dal 1° ottobre 2026 al 31 marzo 2027 (Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026)
Partly in force in Riccione right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30 local time.
🔑 Unlike the Rimini and Modena orders, this one carries no automatic extension of the end time. Its preamble recites article 17 of the PAIR Technical Implementation Rules, which adds local additional measures once twenty-five daily PM10 exceedances are recorded in a calendar year, and its operative part never enacts them. 18:30 therefore holds for the season, subject only to the emergency measures below.
The emergency measures are not in this timetable and cannot be. Arpae issues the bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; when it calls for the measures in the province of Rimini the ban runs 08:00–19:00 from the following day until the next control day inclusive, on any day of the week, and reaches diesel Euro 5. Check the bulletin for the day you travel.
Strike days are not in this timetable for the same reason: the order lifts the weekday ban on any day of a local public transport strike, and those are called at short notice.
Saturday carries no rule because the order never names Saturday. That is not the same as an express exemption, and it holds only while the emergency measures are off.
⚠️ This timetable is a clock and a vehicle list. It says nothing about where you are: the SS16 boundary, viale Felice Pullè and the three groups of excluded access routes are not encoded here, and a vehicle on the banned list is outside the ban on those roads and inland of the SS16 at every hour in this table.
The order's other measures are outside this timetable because they are not about driving: the heating-season start date of 1 November 2026, the indoor temperature limits of 19°C and 17°C, the biomass and open-burning rules, the pellet certification duty and the shop-door obligation all run on their own periods.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Riccione closes its seafront to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, the ban catches petrol cars up to and including Euro 2, LPG/petrol and methane/petrol up to and including Euro 2, diesel cars up to and including Euro 4, and mopeds and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2.
The zone is the urban area on the sea side of the SS16 — "Zona urbana a mare della Strada Statale 16" — so one trunk road and the Adriatic are the whole boundary, and the SS16 itself is excluded along with a long list of named routes to the main car parks and the hospital. 🚨 That sentence is word for word the one Rimini's order uses next door, and it is the only thing the two coastal orders have in common once you read past it.
Sundays are stricter than weekdays: every Sunday of the season is an ecological Sunday except 1 November 2026 and 28 March 2027, and on those twenty-four Sundays the diesel line moves one class further and catches Euro 5 as well. Nothing is on sale. There is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation; a banned car does not become admissible by paying.
The weekday ban is also lifted on six named days and on any day when local public transport is on strike. ⚠️ One of those six is not a national holiday: the order lists Wednesday 11 November 2026 among its "giorni festivi" and gives no reason for it.
The regional emergency measures can be switched on for the whole province of Rimini on any day of the week, and then the ban runs 08:00 to 19:00 and reaches diesel Euro 5. 🔑 Unlike Rimini, Riccione sets no automatic extra hour: its preamble recites the PAIR rule that adds one after twenty-five PM10 exceedances, and its operative part never enacts it, so 18:30 means 18:30 here for the whole season.
Electric and hybrid vehicles, electric mopeds and motorcycles, cars carrying at least three people, and guests driving to and from hotel-type accommodation inside the zone are outside the ban. The ban is on circulation, so it is driving, not parking, that is caught.
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, Settore 5 Governo sostenibile del Territorio, Servizio Ambiente, published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of every municipality bound by the PAIR 2030
Nothing is charged and nothing is on sale. The order bans the listed classes from circulating and then lists the vehicles, roads and journeys that are excluded; there is no day ticket, no registration fee and no payable derogation a visitor could buy.
The one route by which a banned vehicle can be authorised is Move-In, the regional telematics scheme, and this order draws its limit more tightly than most: point 10 admits Move-In vehicles "solo relativamente alle limitazioni strutturali di cui al punto 1" — only in respect of the weekday ban — on the terms of Annexes A, B and C to regional decision DGR n. 1493 of 22/09/2025 and under Riccione's own standing order n.
87 of 29/09/2025. 🔑 That wording puts the exclusion in the operative article rather than leaving it to the preamble: a Move-In black box does nothing on any of the twenty-four ecological Sundays and nothing while the emergency measures are running, and a reader does not have to work that out from a recital.
Move-In is in any case a scheme for vehicles registered in the participating regions rather than something a foreign visitor can buy on arrival. Neither the order nor the regional decision states a price in the documents read here, so none is given.
Seasonal, and the season had just opened when this was read. The ban runs from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Monday to Friday the window is 08:30 to 18:30 — "dal lunedì al venerdì, nella fascia oraria 8.30 – 18.30". 🚨 Sundays are not an exception list of dates but a rule with two holes in it: point 2 bans the same traffic on every "domenica (domeniche ecologiche)" of the season in the same hours, and then suspends itself on two of them, 1 November 2026 and 28 March 2027.
The season holds twenty-six Sundays, so twenty-four are ecological Sundays. ⚠️ Those are not the two Sundays Rimini excepts. Rimini lets through 4 October and 1 November; Riccione lets through 1 November and 28 March.
The towns adjoin, their orders use the identical sentence to define their zones, and they still disagree about which Sundays a visitor may drive an old car on — so the only safe way to read a coastal Sunday is against the order of the comune you are actually in. 🔑 December is kept here, as it is at Rimini: article 12 paragraph 2 of the PAIR 2030 Technical Implementation Rules, recited in this order's own preamble, would allow the Sundays between 1 December and 6 January to be suspended, and this order suspends none of them.
Saturday carries no ordinary ban — the order never names Saturday.
The weekday ban of point 1 is lifted on any day when local public transport is on strike and on six named days, which the order writes with their weekdays: Wednesday 11 November 2026, Tuesday 8 December 2026, Friday 25 December 2026, Friday 1 January 2027, Wednesday 6 January 2027 and Monday 29 March 2027. 🚨 Five of those six are national public holidays and one is not.
11 November is listed among the "giorni festivi" with no explanation in the act, and this record does not supply one: the order's reason for it is not stated, and a date is not evidence of what it commemorates. ⚠️ The corpus does hold one other order that suspends 11 November 2026 — Conselice, in the province of Ravenna, which writes the date and then marks it "(patrono)".
That is a reason to notice the coincidence and not a reason to import the explanation: Conselice is some eighty kilometres away in another province, its order says why and this one does not, and the project has already had to delete a saint's name it inferred from a date rather than read from an act. 🔑 There is no automatic extension of the clock here, and the absence is deliberate enough to be worth stating.
The preamble recites article 17 of the PAIR Technical Implementation Rules — the local additional measures a comune applies "nel caso in cui si verifichino 25 superamenti" of the daily PM10 limit — and the operative part never enacts it. Rimini's order, read the same day, does enact it and widens to 19:30; Modena's enacts it and widens to 08:00–19:00. Riccione recites and declines.
Separately from all of this, the region's emergency measures can be triggered on any day of the week: they run 08:00 to 19:00, reach diesel Euro 5, start the day after a control day and last until the next control day inclusive. Arpae issues that bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and it is triggered for the whole province of Rimini, not only this comune.
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, ORDINA points 1, 2 and 8, with the preamble's citation of articles 12 and 17 of the PAIR 2030 Norme Tecniche di Attuazione
🚨 The zone is defined by the identical sentence Rimini uses, and the two orders are otherwise unalike: point 9 states that the area where points 1, 2 and 8.1 apply "è individuata nella planimetria costituente l'allegato 1 ed è costituita da: Zona urbana a mare della Strada Statale 16." One trunk road and the Adriatic are the whole boundary — everything in the built-up area between the SS16 and the sea is in, everything inland of the SS16 is out, and the SS16 itself is excluded from the ban. ⚠️ Where Rimini names four stretches of its boundary roads, Riccione names one: "viale Felice Pullè dal confine con Rimini".
The two orders therefore name DIFFERENT roads for the boundary they share — Rimini excludes Viale Principe di Piemonte from the Riccione boundary, Riccione excludes viale Felice Pullè from the Rimini boundary — and neither act says whether those are two names for one carriageway, so this record does not say it either.
Inside the strip the order excludes three groups of named routes so that a banned vehicle can still reach the main car parks and the hospital.
The first: viale Aosta, viale Portofino, viale Castrocaro, viale Vittorio Emanuele II from viale Castrocaro to viale Einaudi, viale Luigi Einaudi, viale Bondeno, viale Torriana, viale Rimini from viale Torriana to viale dei Mille, viale dei Mille, viale delle Magnolie, viale XIX Ottobre, viale San Martino from viale XIX Ottobre to viale Limentani, viale Limentani from viale San Martino to viale da Verrazzano, and viale da Verrazzano from viale Limentani to the SS16.
The second: viale Frosinone, viale Formia, viale Cervi between viale Frosinone and viale Formia, viale Ruffini between viale Cervi and piazza Unità, and viale Lazio between viale Formia and the entrance to the library car park.
The third: viale Emilia from the SS16 to viale Cervino, viale Cervino, viale Carpi as far as viale Budrio, viale Monterosa, and viale Forlimpopoli as far as viale Borgonovo. 🚨 Read the limits as written — most of these are excluded only between two named cross-streets, and leaving the named stretch puts a banned vehicle back inside the ban.
The perimeter cannot be reproduced here as geometry, which is recorded under boundary_coverage, but as at Rimini the words do not need it: the boundary is a named trunk road and a coastline.
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, ORDINA point 9, with Allegato 1 (planimetria dell'area del centro abitato) for the extent of the strip
The authority's own map: Comune di Riccione
Petrol cars of Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 are banned — "veicoli alimentati a benzina EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, non conformi alla direttiva 98/69/A CE e successive o alla direttiva 99/96/A CE e successive" — so a petrol car needs to be Euro 3 or better. Bi-fuel vehicles running on LPG/petrol or methane/petrol are treated identically and banned up to and including Euro 2.
Mopeds are banned up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2013/60/EC or later, and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2003/77/EC or later.
None of these four lines moves anywhere in the scheme: petrol, bi-fuel, mopeds and motorcycles are caught at Euro 2 on weekdays, on the twenty-four ecological Sundays and while the emergency measures are running alike.
It is only the diesel line that moves. 🔑 Electric mopeds and motorcycles are named as exempt in their own right at point 10 — "ciclomotori e motocicli elettrici" — which the Rimini order does not do, so a rider on an electric two-wheeler is outside this ban on the face of the act rather than by inference from the Euro classes.
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, ORDINA points 1 and 2 for the banned lists, point 8.1 for the emergency list and point 10 for the exempt vehicles
Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 from Monday to Friday — "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3, EURO 4 non conformi alla direttiva 2005/55/CE B2 e successive o alla direttiva 99/96 fase III oppure Riga B2 o C e successive" — so a diesel needs to be Euro 5 or better on a weekday. 🚨 On each of the twenty-four ecological Sundays the line moves one class further and Euro 5 is banned as well: "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3, EURO 4 ed Euro 5 non conformi al regolamento 715/2007*692/2008 (Euro 6 A o Euro 6 B)".
The same Euro 5 extension applies whenever the region's emergency measures are running, on any day of the week. A Euro 5 diesel is therefore legal here on a Tuesday and illegal on the Sunday after it, and only a Euro 6 diesel is clear of every list. 🔑 The national Euro 5 deadline does not reach this comune, and the order's own preamble shows why while never saying so.
It recites the whole chain at length — Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025 requiring a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026 "in via prioritaria per i Comuni aventi popolazione maggiore di 100.000 abitanti", L.R. n.
9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 enacting it regionally, and DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026 substituting compensating measures so that Emilia-Romagna municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants need not apply it.
Every one of those three steps is addressed to municipalities over 100,000. ⚠️ Riccione states its own population only as a threshold: "la popolazione residente nel Comune di Riccione è superiore ai 30.000 abitanti", over thirty thousand, with no figure.
That is the test the order actually has to pass — article 12 of the PAIR applies to comuni over 30,000 — and it is a different test from the one the Euro 5 chain turns on. So the Euro 5 recital in this preamble is boilerplate carried across from a larger comune's template and does not bear on the ban Riccione imposes.
A Euro 5 diesel driver is restricted here on Sundays and on emergency days because this order says so at points 2 and 8.1, not because of anything in the national law.
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026: point 1 for the weekday list, point 2 for the ecological-Sunday list, point 8.1 for the emergency list, and the preamble for the Legge 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 → DGR 1505/2026 recital and for the population threshold
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, the RENDE NOTO CHE article, with the DISPONE article for the enforcing bodies
Comune di Riccione — Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026: point 1 for the season, clock, banned classes and suspended days, point 2 for the ecological Sundays, point 8 for the emergency measures, point 9 for the zone and the excluded routes, points 10 and 11 for the exemptions, and the RENDE NOTO CHE article for the sanctions and the duty to display
Comune di Riccione — "Limitazioni alla circolazione e regolamentazione impianti a biomassa legnosa nel territorio del Comune di Riccione – periodo dal 1° ottobre 2026 al 31 marzo 2027", Atto Sindacale n. 86 del 28/09/2026, Pratica n. 95/2026, published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of every municipality bound by the PAIR 2030. This is the operative instrument: fifteen pages fixing the season, the two clocks, the banned classes, the twenty-four ecological Sundays, the six suspended days, the zone, the excluded routes, the exemptions, the emergency measures and the sanctions. ⚠️ The act is headed "IL SINDACO" and titled an atto sindacale, and the signature block is not the mayor's: it reads "Il Assessore a scuola, servizi educativi, p / Villa Sandra", an assessore signing for the mayor, with the job title itself cut off mid-word by the template's field width. Both facts are taken from the document as served and neither is completed by inference
Comune di Riccione — Allegato 1 to Atto Sindacale n. 86/2026, "planimetria area centro abitato Riccione", the plan of the restricted area, published by Arpae. Cited as the drawing the order's point 9 adopts, and recorded as unusable for geometry: it carries a complete legend, a street-name text layer and a graphic scale bar in metres, but no grid, no coordinates and no stated projection
Comune di Riccione — Allegato 2 to Atto Sindacale n. 86/2026, the list of vehicle categories registered for specific transport and special uses that point 10 exempts. Cited because the order makes this annex the operative definition of that exemption rather than referring the reader to articles 54 and 203 of the Highway Code alone — two pages, no drawing
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Riccione (RN)", the page in the regional agency's 2026-2027 ordinance index where the Comune di Riccione's order and its two annexes are published and named. Cited as the publishing door: it names the act by its number, which is how this record identifies it
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanze 2026-2027", the index of implementing ordinances for municipalities over 30,000 inhabitants for the 2026/2027 season. Cited for where this record sits in the regional harvest and for a measurement about the index itself: it carried eleven entries when the previous cycle recorded it as exhausted, and thirteen when counted again on 2026-10-01, the two newest being Rimini and Riccione (RN)
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Liberiamo l'aria", the regional portal for the antismog measures (www.liberiamolaria.it redirects here). Cited for the regional framework this order implements: the measures run from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027 across the lowland municipalities of Emilia-Romagna and the Bologna agglomeration, and each municipality over 30,000 inhabitants issues its own implementing ordinance
This rule ends on 2027-03-31, by the dates in the order itself. We do not re-check it after that — the page comes out of our index, and only a new order from the authority can put a rule for this road back on it.