3 schemes in 3 cities. Every figure comes from an official source and is re-checked.
Norway has 3 driving restrictions that we have checked against an official source, in 3 cities. All are studded tyre charges.
This page lists no country-wide requirement for Norway. 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 between 2026-09-24 and 2026-09-25, from the authorities' own pages. Each check is repeated on a schedule, and a rule we can no longer confirm comes down instead of staying up.
All 3 published charges are 35.00 NOK a day.
| Scheme | City | Kind | Daily charge | Fine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piggdekkavgift, Bergen kommune | Bergen | Studded tyre charge | 35.00 NOK | 750.00 NOK |
| Piggdekkgebyr, Oslo kommune | Oslo | Studded tyre charge | 35.00 NOK | 750.00 NOK |
| Piggdekkgebyr, Trondheim kommune | Trondheim | Studded tyre charge | 35.00 NOK | 750.00 NOK |
Bergen charges for what your car is shod with, not for what is under its bonnet, and it charges it across the whole municipality.
If you drive on studded tyres in or through Bergen between 1 November 2026 and 4 April 2027, you owe the piggdekkavgift for each day you use the car — the City's own opening sentence ties the charge to 'de dagene du bruker bilen', the days you use the car, so a visitor who parks for three days and drives on the fourth pays for one.
Nothing about the vehicle itself changes the answer: there is no Euro class, no fuel rule, no age limit and no exemption for an electric car anywhere on the City's page, and weight only sets the tariff. A day costs 35 kroner up to 3,500 kg and 70 above it, a month 450 and 900, the season 1,400 and 2,800, and driving without a valid one risks a tilleggsgebyr of 750 kroner.
Three things separate Bergen from Oslo and a driver who assumes the schemes are identical will get two of them wrong. ⚠️ Bergen does not refund: the City says twice on one page that paid piggdekkavgift is not refunded, where Oslo cancels a season oblat and refunds the remainder — so buying the season here is a decision you cannot unwind. ⚠️ And Bergen's month is 31 days from the purchase date rather than a calendar month, which means the day you buy it is the day it starts, not the first of the month.
What does travel is the permit itself: Bergen states that it runs the same scheme as Oslo and Trondheim and that a valid permit from either of those cities is valid here too, so a driver who has already paid in one of the three owes nothing further in this one.
The exemptions are a closed list of six classes — a car carrying a disabled parking permit, a vehicle on ploughing, salting or gritting duty, police and diplomatic vehicles, emergency vehicles, motorcycles, mopeds and moped cars, and trailers and tractors. A foreign registration is not among them.
One last thing the City says that a winter visitor should hear: outside the season you may use studded tyres without paying anything, if driving conditions require them.
Charge 35.00 NOK · Penalty 750.00 NOK
Oslo charges you for your tyres rather than for your engine, and it is the first scheme in this corpus that does. If you drive a car on studded tyres in or through Oslo between 1 November 2026 and 4 April 2027, you must hold a piggdekkoblat — an electronic permit bought by the day, the calendar month or the season.
Nothing about the car itself changes the answer: the City sets no Euro class, no fuel rule and no age limit, so an electric car on studs pays exactly what an old diesel on studs pays, and the same diesel on unstudded winter tyres pays nothing at all on the same road at the same hour. There are no hours and no free days of the week.
What there is instead is a rule that rewards leaving the car alone: you need a valid oblat only on the days you actually drive it, so a visitor who parks for three days and drives on the fourth buys one day. A day costs 35 kroner for a vehicle up to 3,500 kg and 70 above it, a calendar month 450 and 900, and the whole season 1,400 and 2,800; a season oblat can be cancelled and the remaining period is refunded.
Driving without one is not a fine in the ordinary sense but a tilleggsgebyr of 750 kroner, and the City states it at that figure for every vehicle, light or heavy. Two things matter more to a driver passing through than to one who lives there.
The charge covers the whole municipality and it covers state roads as well as municipal ones, so there is no through-route that avoids it — Oslo says in terms that you need a valid oblat even if you are only driving through.
And the exemptions are a short, closed list that a foreign visitor is unlikely to be on: days you do not use the car, a vehicle holding a valid oblat from Bergen or Trondheim, a vehicle with a disabled parking permit, a motorcycle, trailer or tractor, and emergency or police vehicles.
A foreign registration is not among them, and the City's own complaint page is built for drivers without Norwegian ID — one route through ID-porten for those with a personnummer, and a separate form for those without.
Charge 35.00 NOK · Penalty 750.00 NOK
Trondheim is the third of the three Norwegian cities that charge for studded tyres, and it is the one that explains the scheme rather than only stating this year's dates.
If you drive on studded tyres in or through Trondheim kommune during the season you must pay the fee before you set off, and you pay it for the days you actually drive on studs — not for every day you are in town. 🚨 THE CITY CHANGED ITS VOCABULARY ON THIS PAGE, AND THIS RECORD CHANGED WITH IT.
Until 2026-09-24 the page called the thing you buy an «oblat» — the Norwegian word for a windscreen sticker; on 2026-09-25 the closing sweep reported eight of nineteen watched sentences gone, and the re-reading found the same page saying «gebyr», fee, in every one of them.
Every fact this record carries survived the rewrite unchanged: the same season, the same 4 April end, the same six tariffs, the same 30-day month, the same whole-municipality extent, the same transit rule, the same reciprocity with Oslo and Bergen. 🔑 What the page now states outright is that «Gebyret er elektronisk og knyttes til registreringsnummeret på bilen din» — the fee is electronic and tied to the car's registration number. 🚫 This record does not say Trondheim abolished a sticker: the page said «Du trenger ikke å legge kvittering i frontruta på bilen» before the rewrite too, so what is measured is a change of word, not a change of scheme, and that is all that is claimed.
Nothing about the car itself changes the answer: there is no Euro class, no fuel rule, no age limit and no exemption for an electric car, and weight only sets the tariff. A day is 35 kroner up to 3,500 kg and 70 above it, a month 450 and 900, the season 1,400 and 2,800, and driving on studs without paying risks a tilleggsgebyr of 750 kroner.
The permit is electronic, tied to the number plate, and needs nothing in the windscreen.
Two things here are worth a foreign driver's attention more than a local's. 🔑 Trondheim is the only one of the three that publishes the season as a rule rather than as a pair of dates: it runs from 1 November until the first Monday after Easter, which is why the end date moves each year — and for 2026/2027 the City prints the concrete last day of sale and enforcement as Sunday 4 April. ⚠️ And the SMS channel that makes the scheme easy here is closed to most visitors: buying a day permit by text requires a Norwegian mobile subscription, which leaves the SmartPark and EasyPark apps, the web, and four roadside machines placed on the approach roads — at Circle K Klett and Sandmoen coming from the south, at Stav Hotel and just past Bunnpris Hundhamaren coming from the north.
What travels is the permit itself: Trondheim states that a paid gebyr is valid in Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen, so one payment covers all three. The exemptions are a closed list of seven classes and a foreign registration is not among them. Nothing is refunded once paid.
Charge 35.00 NOK · Penalty 750.00 NOK