Rimini, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Limitazioni alla circolazione stradale dinamica privata nell'area urbana del Comune di Rimini — misure antismog 2026/2027 in applicazione del PAIR 2030 (Ordinanza del Sindaco, Protocollo N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026)
Partly in force in Rimini right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30 local time.
🚨 The end time in both rules is 18:30 only while point 2 is dormant. Point 1.a defers to point 2 in its own words, and point 2 switches on automatically — with no further act and no announcement named in the order — once a monitoring station in the municipality has recorded twenty-five daily PM10 exceedances during calendar year 2026, at which point both windows above become 08:30 to 19:30. That cannot be put in a timetable because it depends on a running count this project does not hold: the order gives 2025's figure, sixteen exceedances at the viale Flaminia traffic station against a ceiling of thirty-five, and says nothing about 2026. Treat 19:30 as the end time to plan around if you are driving in a cold spell late in the season.
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 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 in its circulation article. 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, the four excluded boundary stretches and the two dozen 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 standing ban on idling a parked engine all run on their own periods.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Rimini closes part of the city 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, methane/petrol and LPG/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 not drawn as a perimeter and does not need to be, because the order defines it with one line and the coast: "Zona urbana a mare della Strada Statale 16" — the urban area on the sea side of the SS16 trunk road.
If you are between the SS16 and the Adriatic, inside the built-up area, you are in it; if you are on the inland side, you are not.
That makes this one of the two easiest zones in the Emilia-Romagna antismog family to place yourself in without a map. 🚨 The other is Riccione, immediately to the south, whose order uses the identical sentence — and the two are not otherwise alike, so the shared boundary formula is a coast-specific drafting pattern rather than anything that can be read across to the rest of the family.
The SS16 itself is excluded, and so are four named stretches of the boundary roads and some two dozen named access routes to the park-and-ride sites and to the hospital, so a banned car can still reach a car park and leave again.
Sundays are stricter than weekdays: every Sunday of the season is an ecological Sunday except two — 4 October and 1 November 2026 — 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. ⚠️ Two switches can make the clock later than the one above. If a monitoring station in the municipality records twenty-five daily PM10 exceedances during calendar year 2026, an extra hour is added automatically and the window becomes 08:30 to 19:30.
Separately, when Arpae's bulletin triggers the regional emergency measures for the province of Rimini, the ban runs 08:00 to 19:00 on any day of the week and reaches diesel Euro 5. 🔑 The order is unusually frank about the air it is regulating: it records that in 2025 the traffic monitoring station in viale Flaminia exceeded the PM10 daily limit sixteen times against a legal ceiling of thirty-five, and that NO2 stayed inside its annual limit.
Electric and hybrid vehicles, 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 — the order says "circolazione stradale dinamica privata" — so it is driving, not parking, that is caught.
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza del Sindaco, Protocollo N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, signed by Sindaco Jamil Sadegholvaad and 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: point 1.e excludes from the ban vehicles that have joined it, which fits a black box and allows a monitored annual mileage allowance instead of a flat prohibition, on the terms of Annexes A, B and C to regional decision DGR n. 1493 of 22/09/2025. Rimini runs Move-In under a separate standing mayoral order, prot. n.
0339372/2025 of 29/09/2025, effective from 01/10/2025 to 30/09/2028, and the preamble to this order states the limit of that exemption in the same breath as the grant: Move-In does not permit circulation "durante le domeniche ecologiche" or while the emergency measures are running, so the black box does nothing on any of the twenty-four ecological Sundays and nothing on an emergency day.
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 dalle ore 08.30 alle ore 18.30". 🚨 Sundays are not an exception list of dates but a rule with two holes in it: point 1.b bans the same traffic "tutte le domeniche (Domeniche Ecologiche) dal 1 ottobre 2026 al 31 Marzo 2027 a eccezione di domenica 04 ottobre 2026 e domenica 01 novembre 2026", in the hours set by point 1.a.
The season holds twenty-six Sundays; two are named as excepted, so twenty-four are ecological Sundays. 🔑 Which two are excepted is worth a visitor's attention, because neither is the obvious one: the first Sunday of the season is let through, and so is All Saints' Day, while every Sunday in December and the first Sunday of January are kept.
The PAIR 2030 would have allowed Rimini to drop those five — the order's own preamble cites article 12 paragraph 2 of its Technical Implementation Rules, "4 domeniche al mese, con possibilità di sospensione dal 1° dicembre al 6 gennaio e nei giorni di festività" — and Rimini does not use that power for December at all.
Saturday carries no ordinary ban: the order never names Saturday in its circulation article. ⚠️ The weekday and Sunday clock is not fixed for the season.
Point 1.a carries its own escape — "tranne nel caso di applicazione delle disposizioni di cui al punto 2 in cui la fascia oraria è estesa fino alle 19.30" — and point 2 switches itself on automatically if a monitoring station anywhere in the municipality records twenty-five daily PM10 exceedances during calendar year 2026, adding one hour at the end and making the window 08:30 to 19:30 for weekdays and ecological Sundays alike.
Whether that has happened is not knowable from this document: the order records sixteen exceedances at the viale Flaminia traffic station during 2025, which is well short of twenty-five, but 2026 is the year that counts and the order was signed in September. 🚨 This is the same PAIR article 17 mechanism the Modena order carries, and the two municipalities do not implement it the same way: Modena widens to 08:00–19:00, Rimini to 08:30–19:30.
The whole of point 1 is lifted on four named days — 8 and 25 December 2026, 1 and 6 January 2027 — and on any day when local public transport is on strike. 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 the city.
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, points 1.a, 1.b, 1.d, 2 and 3, with the preamble's citation of article 12 paragraph 2 of the PAIR 2030 Norme Tecniche di Attuazione for the December power the order declines to use, and the "Verificato" article for the 2025 exceedance count
🔑 The zone is the urban area of Rimini on the sea side of the SS16, and the order says exactly that and nothing more: "L'Area Urbana del Comune di Rimini in cui si applicano le limitazioni della circolazione, di cui al presente atto, è individuata nella Planimetria allegata al presente atto ed è delimitata come segue: Zona urbana a mare della Strada Statale 16." One trunk road and the Adriatic are the whole boundary.
The SS16 runs the length of the municipality roughly parallel to the coast, so the restricted area is the coastal strip — the historic centre, the Marina Centro seafront, the station quarter and the beach districts from Torre Pedrera in the north to Miramare in the south — and everything inland of the SS16, including the hills, is outside it. ⚠️ The strip is long: the plan shows it running the full width of the municipality, from the Bellaria-Igea Marina boundary to the Riccione boundary, which is around fifteen kilometres of coast.
The SS16 itself is excluded from the ban, and so are four stretches of the roads that close the zone at its ends: Viale Principe di Piemonte from the Riccione boundary to the roundabout with Via Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, Via Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, Via San Salvador from the Bellaria-Igea Marina boundary to the junction with Via Tolemaide, and Via Tolemaide.
Inside the strip, the order excludes some two dozen named access and exit routes so that a banned vehicle can still reach a park-and-ride or a hospital: Viale Losanna, Viale Parigi, Via Ambrosoli, Via Giordani, Via Melucci, Via Marradi, Viale Settembrini, Via Flaminia from the SS16 to the roundabout with Viale Settembrini, Via Giuliani with Via Fada and Via Lagomaggio for the return, Via Ugo Bassi, Via Roma, Largo Martiri d'Ungheria, Via Dei Mille, Viale Matteotti, Via XIII Settembre, Via Popilia and Via Emilia; and then named in-and-out routes for the car parks at Piazzale Caduti di Cefalonia, Via Euterpe at the Centro Ausa, Viale Valturio, Italo Flori, the Parco Don Tonino Bello, Piazzale Cesare Zavattini, Via Flaminia Conca by the courthouse, the hospital, the Palacongressi, the ex lavatoio at Torre Pedrera and Viale Marconi at Miramare — each written as a specific sequence of roads from the SS16 and back, not as a general permission to drive to the car park by any route. 🚨 Reading the route as written matters: "l'accesso e l'uscita dal parcheggio Italo Flori fino alla SS.16 (percorso di accesso/uscita: SS.16 – Via Marecchiese – Viale Valturio – Via Circonvallazione Occidentale – Via Fracassi)" exempts that chain of streets and not a shorter way to the same car park.
The perimeter cannot be reproduced here as geometry, which is recorded under boundary_coverage, but unlike the vector plans attached to the Piacenza and Modena orders this one does not need to be: the boundary is a named trunk road and a coastline, and a driver can tell which side of it they are on. ⚠️ One thing the two coastal orders do NOT agree on is the road they share.
Rimini excludes "Viale Principe di Piemonte dal confine con Riccione"; Riccione, on the other side of the same boundary, excludes "viale Felice Pullè dal confine con Rimini". Whether those are two names for one carriageway is not stated by either act and is not asserted here — what a driver crossing between the two towns can rely on is that each order has excluded its own side.
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, point 1.c, with the annexed Planimetria (Allegato N.3) for the extent of the strip
The authority's own map: Comune di Rimini — U.O. SIT, Toponomastica
Petrol cars of Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 are banned — "Veicoli alimentati a benzina Euro 0, Euro 1 ed 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 methane/petrol or LPG/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.
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, points 1.a and 1.b for the weekday and ecological-Sunday lists and point 3.a for the emergency list
Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 from Monday to Friday — "veicoli diesel Euro 0, Euro 1, Euro 2, Euro 3 ed 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. 🚨 And there is a second trap here that has nothing to do with the order itself.
National law had already set a deadline for Euro 5 diesel: the preamble cites Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025, converting Decreto-Legge n. 73 of 21 May 2025, which requires air-quality plans to carry a structural limitation on Euro 5 diesel "a decorrere dal 1° ottobre 2026, in via prioritaria per i Comuni aventi popolazione maggiore di 100.000 abitanti".
Rimini is well inside that band — the same order records a resident population of 150,272 at 31/12/2025 — and Emilia-Romagna legislated the limitation into force itself, at L.R. n.
9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 paragraph 1, for 1 October to 31 March each year, cars and N1/N2/N3 commercial vehicles, "dalle ore 8.30 alle ore 18.30, dal lunedì al venerdì", which is the exact weekday window this scheme uses. 🔑 It is not in force, and the reason is in the same preamble. Article 15 paragraph 7 of that regional law lets the Giunta substitute compensating measures, and DGR n.
1505 of 07/09/2026 did so "al fine di prescindere dall'attuazione della limitazione strutturale dei veicoli diesel euro 5" in Emilia-Romagna municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants, in exchange for three things: the heating season starting on 1 November, a biomass-heater ban during emergency measures, and widening the emergency circulation window to 08:00–19:00.
So a Euro 5 diesel driver who reads the national headline and concludes they are banned in Rimini on weekdays from 1 October 2026 has it backwards — and the 08:00–19:00 emergency window they will meet instead is part of the price the region paid for that.
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026: point 1.a for the weekday list, point 1.b for the ecological-Sunday list, point 3.a for the emergency list, and the preamble for the Legge 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 art. 15 → DGR 1505/2026 chain and for the resident population
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, the RENDE NOTO CHE article for the sanctions and the DISPONE article for the enforcing bodies, with article 12 paragraph 7 of the PAIR 2030 Norme Tecniche di Attuazione as quoted in the same order's preamble for the minimum number of checks
Comune di Rimini — Ordinanza Prot. N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026: point 1.a for the season, clock and banned classes, 1.b for the ecological Sundays, 1.c for the zone and the excluded roads, 1.d for the suspended days, 1.e and 1.f for the exemptions, point 2 for the automatic extra hour, point 3 for the emergency measures, and the RENDE NOTO CHE article for the sanctions and the duty to display
Comune di Rimini — "Ordinanza per il contenimento dell'inquinamento atmosferico in applicazione del PAIR2030", Protocollo N. 0349809/2026 del 23/09/2026, signed by Sindaco Jamil Sadegholvaad and 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 that fix the season, the three clocks, the banned classes, the twenty-four ecological Sundays, the zone, the excluded roads, the exemptions, the automatic extra hour, the emergency measures and the sanctions, with the plan of the zone as its own page 15
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Rimini", the page in the regional agency's 2026-2027 ordinance index where the Comune di Rimini's order is published and named. Cited as the publishing door: it names the act by its protocol number, which is how this record identifies it, and it is the page that will change first if the Comune reissues or withdraws the order
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: on 2026-09-28 it carried three entries, on 2026-09-30 eleven, and on 2026-10-01 thirteen — the two newest being Rimini and Riccione (RN), neither of which existed on it when the previous cycle recorded this register as exhausted
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.