Jūrmala, Latvia · Congestion charge
Official name Īpaša režīma zona transportlīdzekļu iebraukšanai Jūrmalas valstspilsētas administratīvajā teritorijā
In force in Jūrmala right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 12:04 · Europe/Riga
This encoding says the charge is in force, not that you are inside the zone. We do not hold the boundary: the regulations delegate the extent to Jūrmala's territorial plan, and the plan publishes it as a 1:35 000 drawing rather than as data, so the warning is at city level.
The charge has no hours, so nothing here can tell you to wait. Arriving at 03.00 costs the same as arriving at 15.00, and the only thing the clock changes is that the fee for the day of entry may still be paid up to 23.59 the next day.
The regulations name no public holiday rule anywhere, so none is encoded. The city's own words for the period are 'all year round'.
A free permanent permit takes a vehicle outside this schedule entirely, and for residents, Jūrmala property owners and companies registered in Jūrmala the system creates it automatically without an application. A visitor cannot qualify on arrival.
Paying is not the same as being allowed in for the whole stay. A day permit covers one calendar day; a driver staying overnight needs a second day covered, or one of the longer permits.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Jūrmala charges you to drive into the town, and it is the town rather than a historic core: the special regime zone is fixed in Jūrmala's own territorial plan and takes in the whole seaside city, which stretches along the Gulf of Rīga from Priedaine at the Rīga end to Ķemeri at the far one — about 30 km of it, measured from the town's own administrative relation rather than from the drawing.
The rule is one sentence long. A vehicle may enter the zone if a permit has been obtained for the day of entry, and in the ordinary case a permit is issued only after the municipal fee has been paid.
A day permit costs 5 euro and runs from 00.00 to 23.59 on the day it covers, with no limit on how many times you drive in and out; the fee for that day may still be paid up to 23.59 the following day, through the city's e-service or a partner's system, which is the one piece of slack in the scheme.
Longer permits run 20 euro for seven days, 60 for thirty, 100 for ninety, 180 for a hundred and eighty and 270 for three hundred and sixty-five, and the longer ones may be moved to a different vehicle a stated number of times without paying again. What the fee is not is seasonal.
The city states plainly that the fee for entering the special regime zone is payable all year round, and it applies to cars, lorries, buses, motorcycles, quadricycles and tricycles alike. Who pays is decided by where you belong rather than by what you drive.
Anyone with a declared address in Jūrmala, anyone owning registered property there, and any company whose registered address is in Jūrmala gets a free permanent permit created automatically for their vehicles, with no application to file — the information system matches the vehicle register against the population and land registers and writes the permit itself. Electric cars are exempt outright.
So are vehicles adapted for a disabled driver, emergency and special-service vehicles, diplomatic vehicles, state police, border guard, armed forces and prosecution vehicles, scheduled public transport, licensed Jūrmala taxis and the contracted waste collector's lorries.
For everyone else — which means most visitors — the zone is a toll you pay before you arrive or on the app at the barrier, and the enforcement is automatic: the municipal police run it with video control devices, and driving in without a permit is an administrative offence carrying a 50 euro fine.
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — the city administration's own service page 'Caurlaides', which states the all-year fee, the classes of vehicle it applies to, the five tariffs and the automatic free permit for residents, property owners and locally registered companies
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Caurlaides'. The city prints the day rate as a heading of its own, 'Dienas caurlaide - 5 EUR', above the table of longer permits, and the same five figures appear in paragraph 12 of the binding regulations in the version given by the council's amending regulations No. 29 of 25 September 2025
There is no free hour and no closed season. The city states that the fee for entering the special regime zone in Jūrmala is payable all year round, and the regulations put the obligation on the act of entry rather than on a time of day: a vehicle may enter if a permit has been obtained for the day of entry.
The day permit is the unit the timetable is built from, and it is a calendar day — valid for entry into the zone on the day in question from 00.00 until 23.59, with no restriction on the number of entries within it. So a driver arriving at four in the morning needs the same permit as one arriving at four in the afternoon, and there is no night, weekend or off-season window in which the barrier lifts for free.
One deadline does move, and it moves in the driver's favour rather than the town's: the fee for the day of entry may be paid until 23.59 on the following day, through the city's e-service system or through the electronic payment system or a registered branch of a partner with which the city administration has a valid collection agreement.
That is a grace period for paying, not a grace period for entering — the entry itself is recorded by the video control devices when it happens. Longer permits run for consecutive days from the date they start: seven, thirty, ninety, one hundred and eighty or three hundred and sixty-five days in a row, each beginning at 00.00 on the day of payment or on the stated start date.
The regulations name no public holiday, no weekend and no seasonal suspension anywhere, and this record does not invent one.
Jūrmalas dome — binding regulations No. 13 of 29 June 2023, consolidated on likumi.lv, published by the official publisher VSIA 'Latvijas Vēstnesis'. Paragraph 4 puts the requirement on the day of entry; paragraph 23.1 defines the day permit as valid from 00.00 to 23.59 on the day and sets the next-day payment deadline. The city's own service page carries the all-year statement
The zone is the town, not a quarter of it. The regulations do not describe the boundary at all — paragraph 3 says the special regime zone for vehicle entry in Jūrmala is fixed in Jūrmala's territorial plan — and the plan is what the city links from its permits page as 'the map'. That sheet is the graphical part of the Jūrmala territorial plan, approved by the city council's binding regulations No.
42 of 11 October 2012, drawn at 1:35 000 in the Latvian LKS-92 coordinate system, and its legend has exactly two entries: the boundary of a city district, and the special regime zone for vehicle entry.
What the sheet shows is a strip city along the Gulf of Rīga with the named districts inside the zone: Priedaine, Vārnukrogs, Lielupe, Bulduri, Dzintari, Majori, Dubulti, Jaundubulti, Pumpuri, Melluži, Asari, Vaivari, Kauguri, Kaugurciems, Sloka, Ķemeri, Jaunķemeri and Kūdra among them, with Slokas ezers and Aklais ezers inland and the Lielupe running the length of it.
In practice that is why the scheme has entry control points on the roads coming in rather than a ring around a centre: Priedaine sits at the Rīga end of the sheet and Ķemeri at the far one, with everything between them inside the line.
The shape was measured independently and agrees — the administrative relation for Jūrmala in OpenStreetMap is about 30 km east to west and 9 km north to south, which is the geometry of a coastal ribbon rather than of a compact cordon. We do not hold the polygon.
The sheet is a plan drawing, and although it is georeferenced on the page it is published as a picture of a boundary rather than as a boundary; the city's open GIS was asked separately and does not carry the zone.
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — the zone map linked from 'Caurlaides' as 'skat. karti', which is the sheet 'Īpašā režīma zona transportlīdzekļu iebraukšanai' from the graphical part of the Jūrmala territorial plan approved by binding regulations No. 42 of 11 October 2012; and paragraph 3 of binding regulations No. 13 of 29 June 2023, which delegates the extent to that plan
The authority's own map: Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — Pilsētplānošanas pārvalde
Nobody asks what your engine is, with one exception that runs the other way. The regulations set no Euro standard, no fuel rule, no emission class, no sticker and no age limit — a new petrol car and a twenty-year-old one pay the same 5 euro for the day.
The single propulsion-based rule in the scheme is an exemption rather than a threshold: paragraph 19.2 lets electric cars into the zone without a fee and without a permit. That is not an emission standard and is not recorded as one, because it sets no floor a petrol car could be measured against; it is a class of vehicle the town has taken out of the charge. Not estimated.
Nor is there a diesel test, for the same reason: this is a municipal entry fee, not an emission scheme. A modern diesel and an old one are charged identically, and the only propulsion the regulations single out is the electric car, which is exempt from the fee altogether under paragraph 19.2.
Weight and body type change nothing either — the city states the fee applies to cars, to heavy goods vehicles and to buses alike. Not estimated.
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Sods par iebraukšanu bez caurlaides', the city's own page on the penalty, which states the amount in euro directly rather than in the fine units the regulations use. It also states who enforces it: the Jūrmala municipal police, using video technical control devices
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Caurlaides' for the tariffs, the all-year rule, the vehicle classes and the automatic free permit; 'Sods par iebraukšanu bez caurlaides' for the enforcement, the 50 euro fine and who it is addressed to; and binding regulations No. 13 of 29 June 2023 on likumi.lv for the next-day payment deadline, the re-registration allowances, the exemptions and the no-refund rule
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Caurlaides', the city administration's service page for entry permits. It states the all-year fee, the vehicle classes it covers, all five tariffs, the re-registration allowances and the automatic free permit for residents, Jūrmala property owners and locally registered companies, and it is where the driver buys the permit
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Sods par iebraukšanu bez caurlaides'. This is the page that puts the fine in euro rather than in fine units, names the Jūrmala municipal police as the enforcer and the video technical control devices as the means, and explains that in the ordinary case the penalty is addressed to the vehicle's holder
Jūrmalas dome, binding regulations No. 13 of 29 June 2023 'Par transportlīdzekļu iebraukšanu īpaša režīma zonā Jūrmalas valstspilsētas administratīvajā teritorijā', consolidated text on likumi.lv, the legal-acts site of the official publisher VSIA 'Latvijas Vēstnesis'. This is the instrument itself: the tariffs in paragraph 12 as amended by regulations No. 29 of 25 September 2025, the delegation of the boundary to the territorial plan in paragraph 3, the day-permit hours and next-day payment deadline in paragraph 23.1, the electric-car exemption in paragraph 19.2 and the penalty in paragraph 50. 'Spēkā esošs' is watched deliberately: it is the publisher's structured validity field, and it moves — the 2017 regulations this act replaced show 'Zaudējis spēku' with a repeal date, so if this act is ever repealed the record withdraws itself
Saeima — Administratīvās atbildības likums, section 16, on likumi.lv. Cited for one number the binding regulations deliberately do not print: they set the fine at ten fine units, and this is the national act that says one fine unit is five euro. The record carries the city's own 50 euro figure rather than this arithmetic, but the two agree, and holding the national source means a change in the unit would be visible here rather than silently wrong
Jūrmalas valstspilsētas pašvaldība — 'Īpašā režīma zona transportlīdzekļu iebraukšanai', the zone sheet from the graphical part of the Jūrmala territorial plan approved by binding regulations No. 42 of 11 October 2012, linked from 'Caurlaides' as the map. Held as the authority's own boundary document: it is a 1:35 000 drawing in LKS-92 with a two-entry legend, which is why boundary_coverage is published_unusable rather than held
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-15.