Norway: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Oslo has one driving restriction on our books: the Piggdekkgebyr, Oslo kommune (studded tyre charge). The published charge is 35.00 NOK per day. What is a studded tyre charge?
Sources last read on 2026-09-24, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-23.
35.00 NOK per day.
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.