Bergen, Norway · Studded tyre charge
Not in force in Bergen right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Oslo
This encoding answers whether the charge is in force, not whether you owe it. What decides that is your tyres: the whole scheme applies only to a vehicle driven on studded tyres, and the same car on unstudded winter tyres owes nothing on the same road in the same hour. Nothing in a timetable can read a tyre.
The charge is per driving day, not per day of the season. Bergen states that you pay for the days you use the car, so a vehicle standing parked through an in-force day owes nothing for it.
There are no hours to wait out. The City publishes none, so arriving at 03:00 costs the same as arriving at 15:00, and the units are 24 hours from purchase, a month of 31 days from purchase, and the season.
The season dates are this season's, published by Bergen as 1.11.26 to 4.4.27. Bergen prints the pair of dates and no standing formula; the record carries 4 April 2027 as its own expiry so that these months cannot be rolled forward into an unpublished season.
No public holiday rule is encoded because the City names none. Norwegian public holidays fall inside the season and Bergen says nothing about them, so this record says nothing about them either.
⚠️ Paid piggdekkavgift is not refunded. Bergen states this twice on one page, and it is the sharpest difference from Oslo, which cancels a season oblat and refunds the remaining period. A season bought here cannot be unwound.
A valid permit from Oslo or Trondheim takes a vehicle outside this schedule entirely, in Bergen's own words: it runs the same scheme as those two cities and honours their permits.
Bergen states the extent as the whole municipality and says nothing at all about state roads, where Oslo states that its charge covers them. This record does not carry Oslo's sentence across; what Bergen says is 'innenfor hele Bergen kommune' and that is what is recorded.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
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.
Bergen kommune — Bymiljøetaten's own service page 'Piggdekk', which states the season, the per-driving-day trigger, all six tariffs across the two weight classes, the whole-municipality extent, the transit rule, the reciprocity with Oslo and Trondheim, the six exempt classes, the no-refund rule and the out-of-season position. Page last updated 16 September 2026 by Bymiljøetaten
Bergen kommune — 'Piggdekk', the section 'Hva koster piggdekkavgiften?', which prints the season, month and day rates with both weight classes on one line each, and states that a day is 24 hours from the moment of purchase. The 31-day month and the 1-, 2- or 3-day units come from the section 'Betale i app' on the same page. The watched strings carry each figure together with the unit and the weight class it buys, so a tariff change cannot pass as an unchanged bare number
There is no hour at which this charge lifts and no free weekday. Bergen publishes a season and a per-day trigger and nothing else: the piggdekksesongen runs from 1 November 2026 to 4 April 2027, and inside it you owe the charge for the days you use the car — 'I piggdekksesongen må du betale avgift for å kjøre med piggdekk i Bergen kommune de dagene du bruker bilen'.
So a car standing still owes nothing for the day it stands still, and a car driven once at four in the morning in January owes the same 24-hour avgift as one driven at four in the afternoon.
The day unit is stated as 24 hours from the moment of purchase rather than as a calendar day, which means buying it at 22:00 covers the following evening as well; the month unit is 31 days from the purchase date, and the season unit runs from the purchase date to the end of the season.
Sales open before the charge does, and the two dates are different: season permits go on sale on 1 October, while day and month permits can only be bought from 1 November.
Outside the season there is nothing to pay, and Bergen goes further than a silence here — the City states that if driving conditions require it you may use studded tyres outside the studded-tyre period without paying the charge. ⚠️ The season's end date is this season's.
Bergen prints '1.11.26 til 4.4.27' as a pair of dates and publishes no standing formula for it, so this record carries 4 April 2027 as its own expiry rather than rolling these months into a season the City has not published.
Trondheim, running the same scheme, does publish the formula — its season ends on the first Monday after Easter — which is the measured reason to expect this end date to move rather than to assume it is fixed, but Bergen does not say so and this record does not put the words in its mouth.
Bergen kommune — 'Piggdekk'. The season is the page's opening paragraph; the per-driving-day trigger is in the same sentence; the 24-hour and 31-day units and the 1 October / 1 November sale dates are in the price and app sections; the out-of-season position is in the FAQ 'Må man betale piggdekkavgift om man bruker piggdekk utenfor sesongen?'
The zone is the municipality, and Bergen says so in one sentence: the piggdekkavgift applies within the whole of Bergen kommune. The sentence immediately after it is the one that matters to a route rather than to a resident — you must pay even if you are only driving through the municipality — so there is no through-route that avoids it.
The extent was measured independently and agrees with the words: the Bergen administrative relation in OpenStreetMap, read 2026-09-25 via Overpass, is relation/404159 at admin_level 7 (place=municipality), 40.03 km north to south and 29.99 km east to west, with its furthest corner 26.52 km from this record's anchor.
That is a large and awkward shape for a driving charge — Bergen is a municipality of fjord-separated peninsulas rather than a disc — and the containment check returns Fana, a level-9 area, around the anchor point itself. ⚠️ Two limits belong here and neither is guesswork.
Bergen publishes no map of the charged area: the section that answers the question, 'Hvem må betale piggdekkavgift og hvor gjelder det?', carries the extent sentence, the transit sentence, the reciprocity sentence and the exemption list, and no image, no iframe and no map element. The only places the page names are two shops that sell day cards.
And unlike Oslo, Bergen does not say whether the charge covers state roads: Oslo states 'Det omfatter både statlige og kommunale veier' and Bergen's page has no equivalent, so this record states the municipal extent the City states and leaves the road-ownership question unanswered rather than importing a neighbouring city's sentence to fill it.
That relation is what this page now draws, taken on 2026-09-25 under the ODbL: the outline is the municipality's and not the City's, and it is the City's sentence rather than anybody's cartography that makes it the right shape.
Bergen kommune — 'Piggdekk', the section 'Hvem må betale piggdekkavgift og hvor gjelder det?', which states the extent as the whole municipality and states that the charge is owed by a driver only passing through
The authority's own words: Bergen kommune — Bymiljøetaten
Nobody asks what the engine is. The scheme sets no Euro class, no fuel rule, no emission class, no sticker and no age limit anywhere on the City's page — the only property of the vehicle that decides the charge is whether its tyres are studded, and the only other property that changes anything is weight, which sets the tariff at 3,500 kg rather than deciding whether you pay.
A new petrol car on studs pays the 35 kroner a twenty-year-old one pays. Not estimated.
Nor is there a diesel test, and this is the field where that is worth stating plainly: a studded-tyre charge is not an emission scheme even though its stated purpose is air quality.
Bergen names the pollutant itself — the charge is a miljøtiltak to reduce svevestøv, the airborne dust that studs tear off the road surface — so the scheme does not distinguish diesel from petrol, and it does not exempt an electric car either: the City's exemption list runs to six classes and no propulsion appears in any of them. Not estimated.
Bergen kommune — Bymiljøetaten, 'Klage på parkeringsgebyr, kontrollsanksjon og piggdekkgebyr'. The studded-tyre charge page itself does not print the penalty; this page does, in a list that separates it from the parking sanctions it is often confused with — kontrollsanksjon at 330, 660 or 990 kroner and parkeringsgebyr at 900. ⚠️ The same page carries a warning that matters more to a driver than the amount: for a piggdekk tilleggsgebyr the payment deadline on the notice stands even if you have lodged a complaint, whereas a kontrollsanksjon is held until the complaint is answered. The complaint deadline is three weeks from receipt
Bergen kommune — 'Piggdekk' in full for the season, the tariffs, the units, the purchase channels, the two day-card outlets, the electronic permit, the reciprocity, the six exemptions, the no-refund rule and the out-of-season position; and 'Klage på parkeringsgebyr, kontrollsanksjon og piggdekkgebyr' for the 750-kroner tilleggsgebyr, the three-week complaint deadline and the rule that the payment deadline stands through a complaint
Bergen kommune — Bymiljøetaten, 'Piggdekk'. This is the issuing authority's own service page and it carries nearly every fact in this record: the season, the per-driving-day trigger, all six tariffs across the two weight classes, the 24-hour and 31-day units, the whole-municipality extent, the transit rule, the reciprocity with Oslo and Trondheim, the six exempt classes, the electronic permit, the two day-card outlets, the no-refund rule and the out-of-season position. It is also where the driver is sent to pay. ⚠️ The instrument behind it is not cited, and that is a measured refusal rather than an omission: the page links 'Forskrift om innføring av gebyr for bruk av piggdekk og tilleggsgebyr, Bergen kommune, Hordaland' on lovdata.no, and lovdata.no's robots.txt ends 'User-agent: * / Disallow: /' — an entire publisher excluding us in writing, which this project obeys rather than measures around. So the charge is sourced to the municipality that levies it, at the address where it tells drivers what to pay, and the legal text stays unread and is not paraphrased
Bergen kommune — Bymiljøetaten, 'Klage på parkeringsgebyr, kontrollsanksjon og piggdekkgebyr'. A second page from the same authority, and it is needed because the studded-tyre page does not print the penalty. It states the tilleggsgebyr for studded tyres at 750 kroner and names what triggers it, separates it from the parking sanctions it sits beside in the same list, gives the three-week complaint deadline, and states that the payment deadline on a studded-tyre notice stands even while a complaint is being handled
This rule ends on 2027-04-04, 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.