Norway: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Trondheim has one driving restriction on our books: the Piggdekkgebyr, Trondheim kommune (studded tyre charge). The published charge is 35.00 NOK per day. What is a studded tyre charge?
Sources last read on 2026-09-25, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-23.
35.00 NOK per day.
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.