Driving in Palma: Low emission zone

Palma, Spain · Low emission zone

Official name Zona de Bajas Emisiones Centre Ciutat — ZBE Fase I, Centro de Palma

In force in Palma right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:02 · Europe/Madrid

The zone is always on; whether it reaches you depends on the vehicle, which this timetable does not check. A Spanish-plated car with a B, C, ECO or 0 label is unaffected at every hour until 1 January 2027.

For a car registered outside Spain the question is not the hour and not the DGT label but the Euro class plus a registration filed five calendar days ahead. This timetable says nothing about whether that registration exists.

It applies to parking as well as driving, so leaving a non-admitted vehicle inside the perimeter is not a way round it.

The ACIRE, ORA and ZAR schemes inside the same streets keep their own hours, and none of them is encoded here.

Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.

What applies

Palma's low emission zone covers the old town inside the ring of Avingudas and the seafront, and Annex 1 of the ordinance gives its time of application in one word: continuous. Today a car carrying any DGT environmental label — B, C, ECO or 0 — drives and parks there freely and registers nothing. Only a vehicle with no label at all is kept out, and it needs a municipal authorisation to go in.

The label test tightens twice on dates already written into the ordinance: from 1 January 2027 a B label is no longer enough, and from 1 January 2030 only ECO and 0 are. The part that decides a foreign visitor's trip is not the label at all, because a car registered outside Spain has no DGT label to read.

Palma settled that in its own decree of 13 March 2026: a foreign-plated vehicle is now judged on the Euro class on its registration document, and any owner who meets it may register for access — but the registration has to be filed five calendar days before the date you plan to drive in, and one of the required documents is the ticket proving the car came over to the island. What you get back is a 30-day permit.

The fine for getting it wrong is 200 euros, set by the city itself, and it rises by 30 % for a repeat within the year.

Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat

Daily charge

There is no charge of any kind, and no day pass to buy. A vehicle either carries a DGT environmental label admitted for the current period, or holds a municipal authorisation from the register, or stays out. The nearest thing to a day pass is the foreign-plate registration, and it is free: it buys 30 calendar days of access rather than one day, and it is granted on the vehicle's Euro class, not on payment.

When it operates

Continuous. Annex 1 of the ordinance states the zone's time of application as "Continuo" — every hour of every day, with no weekday, night or holiday exemption. The restriction covers parking as well as driving, so leaving a non-admitted vehicle inside the perimeter is not a way round it.

Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma (Ordenanza municipal reguladora de las zonas de bajas emisiones, BOIB núm. 167 of 21 December 2024)

Area covered

The inside of the old town, bounded by the axis of the Avingudas — which follow the line of the former city walls — and by the seafront.

The ordinance names the outer limits: Avinguda Gabriel Roca, the mouth of the Riera, Passeig Mallorca, Avinguda Portugal, Avinguda d'Alemanya, Avinguda Comte de Sallent, Avinguda Gran i General Consell, Plaça d'Espanya, Avinguda Alexandre Rosselló, Avinguda Gabriel Alomar, Avinguda Adolfo Suárez and back to Avinguda Gabriel Roca.

The ordinance calls this Phase I and names it Centre Ciutat; no second phase is delimited in it. The ACIRE, ORA and ZAR schemes that already existed inside this area keep running under their own rules, so an authorisation to enter the ZBE is not an authorisation to enter an ACIRE.

Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat

Why there is no map here
The search is finished, and the answer is a licence rather than a format. The city's own spatial data infrastructure was read end to end on 2026-09-12: the IDE Palma catalogue at geoportal.palma.cat/geonetwork holds 74 records, listed in full by paging its own API, and none of them is a low emission zone; its GeoServer advertises 87 feature types across the two workspaces it serves, space and urbanismo, and none of them is either. OpenStreetMap holds no low_emission_zone object within 15 km of the city centre, and the Ajuntament publishes nothing at all on datos.gob.es. The one machine-readable perimeter that does exist is a Google My Maps layer titled "Mapa Àmbit ZBE" embedded on the city's own ZBE page, one closed ring of 99 points — and we do not take it, because no reuse licence is quotable for it: the city's aviso legal is a data-protection notice, and the only constraint its catalogue states is "Sin limitaciones al acceso público", which is a statement about access and not a licence to reuse. So the geometry exists, we can see it, and we have nothing to publish it under.

The authority's own map: Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat

Petrol standard

Two different tests, and which one you get depends on where the car is registered. A Spanish-plated petrol car is judged only on its DGT environmental label: until 31 December 2026 labels B, C, ECO and 0 all enter freely, from 1 January 2027 only C, ECO and 0, and from 1 January 2030 only ECO and 0.

A petrol car registered outside Spain has no DGT label, so Palma reads the Euro class off its registration document instead: until 31 December 2026 cars and light vans of Euro 3, 4, 5 or 6 qualify; from 1 January 2027 Euro 4, 5 or 6; and from 1 January 2030 no petrol car qualifies at all, because that period admits only battery, hybrid, fuel-cell and gas vehicles.

Qualifying is not the same as being allowed in: a foreign-plated vehicle that meets the standard still has to be entered in the municipal register before it drives in.

Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat

Diesel standard

The DGT label test does not distinguish fuel: a Spanish-plated diesel with a B label is treated exactly like a petrol car with a B label, and faces the same 2027 and 2030 steps. The Euro test applied to foreign plates does distinguish fuel, and it is stricter for diesel at every stage. Until 31 December 2026 a foreign-plated diesel car or light van qualifies at Euro 4, 5 or 6 — one class tighter than petrol.

From 1 January 2027 only Euro 6 diesel qualifies, while petrol still qualifies from Euro 4. From 1 January 2030 no diesel qualifies at all. As with petrol, meeting the standard only makes a foreign-plated vehicle eligible to register; it does not by itself permit entry.

Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat

Penalty if you do not comply
€200.00Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma (Ordenanza municipal reguladora de las zonas de bajas emisiones, art. 17.2, BOIB núm. 167 of 21 December 2024)

How to comply
  • If the car is registered in Spain, check the DGT label first. B, C, ECO and 0 all enter and park freely today, and nothing has to be registered or displayed.
  • You do not need the physical sticker. Palma reads number plates and asks the DGT what label the vehicle holds, so the adhesive does not have to be visible — but you still need to know which label you have.
  • If the car has no DGT label, it may not drive in the zone at all without a municipal authorisation from the register.
  • If the car is registered outside Spain, the label question does not apply: it has no DGT label, so Palma looks at the Euro class on the registration document instead.
  • A foreign-plated vehicle must be entered in the Registro de autorizaciones five calendar days before the date you intend to drive in. This is not a same-day formality and there is no on-arrival option.
  • The documents asked for include the passport or NIE and driving licence, the vehicle's technical sheet showing the Euro class, the registration document, proof that the vehicle is yours (the rental or leasing contract if it is not), and the ticket proving the vehicle's own passage to the island.
  • What comes back is a 30-day permit running from the access date you asked for, and the city states that this one covers both driving and parking anywhere in the ZBE.
  • A foreign-plated vehicle belonging to a resident registered at an address inside the zone, or to a business or property owner there, goes down a different route with a six-month maximum — and the city states that that permit is for driving only, not for parking. A second one requires proof that re-registration onto Spanish plates has been started.
  • Entering the ZBE is not entering an ACIRE. The restricted-access areas inside the old town keep their own permits, and the ZBE authorisation does not open them.
  • The zone applies continuously, so there is no hour at which a non-admitted vehicle may enter, and parking a vehicle inside it is an offence in its own right.
Source: Ajuntament de Palma, read 2026-09-12
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Ajuntament de Palma — Àrea de Mobilitat (Vehículos extranjeros)

Sources

Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-31.

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