Oslo, Norway · Studded tyre charge
Not in force in Oslo 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. Oslo states that you need a valid oblat only when you are going to drive 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 only units are 24 hours, a calendar month and the whole season.
The season dates are this season's, published by Oslo as 1 November 2026 to 4 April 2027. The end date moves year to year and is not a standing rule about winter; the record carries 4 April 2027 as its own expiry so that these months cannot be rolled forward into an unpublished season.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 Oslo says nothing about them, so this record says nothing about them either.
An oblat from Bergen or Trondheim takes a vehicle outside this schedule entirely. That is the publisher's own words and it is the clearest sign this scheme is a class rather than a one-off, but this record covers Oslo only and does not state what those two cities charge.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
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.
Oslo kommune — Bymiljøetaten's own service page 'Piggdekkgebyr', which states the season, the two weight classes with all six tariffs, the 750-kroner tilleggsgebyr, the five exemptions, the whole-municipality extent including state roads, and the rule that the oblat is needed only on days the car is driven
Oslo kommune — 'Piggdekkgebyr'. The City prints two tables, 'Priser for kjøretøy opptil 3500 kg' and 'Priser for kjøretøy over 3500 kg', each with a 24-hour, a calendar-month and a whole-season rate. The watched strings pair each figure with the label above it rather than watching a bare number, so a tariff change is visible in the string that names what it buys
There is no hour of the day at which this charge lifts, and there is no free weekday. What there is instead is a season and a per-day trigger, and both come from the City's own sentence: from 1 November 2026 to 4 April 2027 you must hold a piggdekkoblat to drive on studded tyres in or through Oslo.
Inside that season the unit is the day the car moves, not the clock — 'du trenger kun å ha gyldig piggdekkoblat når du skal kjøre bilen', you need a valid oblat only when you are going to drive the car — so a car standing still all week owes nothing for that week, and a car driven once at three in the morning in February owes the same 24-hour oblat as one driven at three in the afternoon.
The day oblat is described as 24 hours rather than as a calendar day, and the City does not print a start-time rule for it anywhere on the page; the two longer units are named by the calendar instead, 'én kalendermåned' and 'hele sesongen'.
Outside the season there is nothing to buy and nothing to pay: on 24 September 2026, when this record was written, the charge was not in force, and it does not begin until 1 November. ⚠️ The season's end moves from year to year — this one is stated as 4 April 2027 — so the dates here belong to the published season and not to some standing rule about winter, and this record carries 4 April 2027 as its own expiry rather than rolling the months forward into a season nobody has published yet.
One thing the page does not say, and this record will not fill in: whether the studded-tyre requirement itself follows the national rule on when studs may be used at all. Oslo prints its charge season and stops there.
Oslo kommune — 'Piggdekkgebyr'. The season is the page's opening sentence; the per-day trigger is the first line under 'Når trenger du piggdekkoblat?'; the day, month and season units are the row labels of the two price tables
The zone is the municipality, and Oslo says so in one sentence: the studded-tyre charge applies within Oslo municipality's boundaries, and it covers state roads as well as municipal ones.
That second half is what makes it a scheme a route planner has to know about rather than a city-centre matter — there is no trunk road through Oslo that sits outside it, and the City states separately that a valid oblat is needed even if you are only driving through.
The extent was measured independently and agrees with the words: the Oslo administrative relation in OpenStreetMap, read 2026-09-24 via Overpass, is relation/2775550 at admin_level 7 (place=municipality), 36.23 km north to south and 25.85 km east to west, with the same bounding box as relation/406091, the county of the same name at level 4 — in Oslo those two are the same territory.
That is a large area for a driving restriction, and most of its northern half is Marka, the forest belt, which the containment check returns as a level-9 area around the anchor point. ⚠️ What the page does not deliver is its own map.
The text tells the reader 'Se kart nederst på siden' — see the map at the bottom of the page — and the section that answers where the charge applies, 'Hvor gjelder piggdekkgebyret?', carries two sentences of prose and nothing else: no image, no iframe and no map element anywhere in the markup, measured on the raw HTML on 2026-09-24.
So the drawing this page shows is not the City's: it is that same municipal relation, taken on 2026-09-25 under the ODbL, and it is the City's sentence rather than anybody's cartography that makes it the right shape.
Oslo kommune — 'Piggdekkgebyr', the section 'Hvor gjelder piggdekkgebyret?', which states the extent as the municipal boundary and states that it covers both state and municipal roads; and the same page's transit sentence, which is what makes the extent matter to a through route
The authority's own words: Oslo 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 purpose is air quality.
The pollutant Oslo is charging for is road dust thrown up by studs rather than anything from the exhaust, so the scheme does not distinguish diesel from petrol, and it does not exempt an electric car either — the City's exemption list is five entries long and no propulsion appears in it. Not estimated.
Oslo kommune — 'Piggdekkgebyr', the section 'Tilleggsgebyr piggdekk og klage'. The City states the amount as a single figure for every vehicle, light or heavy, which is the one place in the scheme where the 3,500 kg split does not apply, and it names the charge as what you owe if you have used studded tyres without paying the piggdekkgebyr
Oslo kommune — 'Piggdekkgebyr' in full: the season and per-day rule, the two tariff tables, the five exemptions, the three purchase channels with the SMS and Vipps exclusions, the statement that the oblat is electronic and needs no visible proof, the 750-kroner tilleggsgebyr, the two appeal routes split by whether the driver holds a Norwegian personnummer, and the season-oblat refund and transfer rules
Oslo kommune — Bymiljøetaten, 'Piggdekkgebyr'. This is the issuing authority's own service page and it carries every fact in this record: the season, the per-driving-day trigger, both weight classes with all six tariffs, the five exemptions including the Bergen and Trondheim reciprocity, the whole-municipality extent covering state roads, the electronic oblat, the three purchase channels, the 750-kroner tilleggsgebyr and the two appeal routes. It is also where the driver buys the permit. ⚠️ The instrument behind it is not cited, and that is a measured refusal rather than an omission: the studded-tyre charge rests on a national forskrift under the vegtrafikklov, Norwegian regulations are published 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. Oslo does not republish it either: 19 forskrift pages appear in the City's own 5,074-URL inventory and none of them is this one. 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
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.