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Monaco has 1 driving restriction that we have checked against an official source, in 1 city. It is a limited traffic zone.
This page lists no country-wide requirement for Monaco. Anything owed before you reach a city is not covered here, so check the national road authority before you leave.
The sources for this country were read on 2026-09-16, from the authorities' own pages. The check is repeated on a schedule, and a rule we can no longer confirm comes down instead of staying up.
Monaco has one driving restriction on our books: the Arrêté municipal n° 2007-256 du 27 février 2007 fixant les dispositions… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-16, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-26.
Monaco-Ville — the old town on the Rocher, where the Palace, the cathedral and the Mairie are — is closed to traffic by where your vehicle is registered, not by what it emits or what you are willing to pay.
Article 9 of arrêté municipal n° 2007-256 puts it in one sentence: save for a special derogation issued by the mairie, access to Monaco-Ville is forbidden to all vehicles except those registered in the Principality or in the Alpes-Maritimes.
So the question at the ramp is a number-plate question with a geographic answer: a Monegasque plate is in, a French 06 plate is in, and a plate from anywhere else — Paris, Milan, Munich, or the next French department along — is out unless its driver holds a derogation. Nothing in the text reads an engine.
The one place the arrêté looks at a powertrain at all is a night rule for two-wheelers, and it works the other way round: motorcycles, tricycles and motor quadricycles may not circulate in Monaco-Ville between 22:00 and 07:00, and electric ones are exempt from that ban along with police and public-security machines.
Deliveries have their own door and their own clock — unless the sûreté publique grants a special derogation, they are permitted only between 07:00 and 10:00.
Beyond the perimeter rule, article 9 then regulates the Rocher street by street: driving is banned along the whole of the Rue Basse and the Rue Comte Félix Gastaldi, banned on the stretch of the Rue de l'Église between the place Saint-Nicolas and the Rue Comte Félix Gastaldi, banned on the stretch of the Rue Emile de Loth between the place de la Mairie and the place du Palais, and banned — for driving and parking alike — in every secondary alley.
The rest of the named streets are one-way, with no stopping on either side of the Rue Colonel Bellando de Castro and no parking at all on the place de la Mairie.
Monaco publishes the way in as a service rather than as a toll: the government's own procedure page tells a driver with new-format French plates who needs to reach the Rocher — the page's own examples are a parent of a pupil living in France, a shopkeeper, a state official, an employee whose work is on the Rocher — to obtain a macaron d'accès permanent from the Direction de la Sûreté Publique.
The macaron exists because of a detail of French plate design rather than of Monegasque law: the new French format no longer shows the department, so an Alpes-Maritimes vehicle can no longer prove its exemption by its plate, and the macaron is how it does so instead.
It is issued to people whose vehicle is registered in the Alpes-Maritimes and also to residents of the Alpes-Maritimes who chose to register elsewhere, it lasts one year, and it must be applied for again each year if still needed. This is the whole of what the rule asks: where the plate is from, whether the hour is a delivery hour or a motorcycle night, and which street inside the quarter you are on.