Mexico: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Mexico City has one driving restriction on our books: the Programa Hoy No Circula (number-plate driving ban). What is a number-plate driving ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-08, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-07.
Mexico City does not charge you to drive in; on your day it does not let you drive at all. The programme covers the whole of the city and applies whatever the origin of the plate, foreign plates included.
Which days you lose depends on the holograma from Mexico's vehicle emissions test — 00, 0 and EXENTO cars, electric cars and category I and II hybrids are exempt, and a car with no Mexican verification at all is in the strictest group. A free Pase Turístico Metropolitano lifts the limits for a foreign or out-of-state car for 14 days once every half-year, or seven days twice.