The Departamento General de Tráfico (DGT) has provided an online service to let you know what Eco-sticker you should have on your vehicle windscreen.
More importantly, knowing the eco-rating of your car will allow you to know whether you can access town centres that have vehicle restrictions in place, such as the city of Granada. In other words, we’re talking about Zonas de Bajas Emisiones.
All you have to do is follow this DGT link and type in your vehicle registration (matrícula) and it will tell you which sticker you should have. It’s important that you don’t put any spaces; just the letters & numbers as they appear on the number plate
As far as obtaining the said windscreen sticker, you can purchase one at your local post office for a fee of five euros.
There are several other ways of obtaining the sticker such as any car-repair garage that belongs to the vehicle-workshop network, Confederación Española de talleres (CETRAA). Bear in mind that the cost could vary depending on how or where you obtain one.
(News: Spain)
@ Jan. I don’t know. Does Belgium etc have a similar system? This article may be helpful.
Foreign cars
“Environmental labels are only valid for driving in Spain, but other EU countries also have other equivalent environmental labelling systems, which can be consulted on the DGT website. Foreign cars cannot apply for a Spanish sticker, but national authorities should know which one corresponds to a particular vehicle.
Foreign cars cannot apply for a Spanish sticker and towns may ask these to register individually, as has happened in Barcelona.”
https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/how-to-get-low-emission-zone-sticker-20230104144031-nt.html
What about not Spanish registered cars in general (i.e. Belgian, german, Dutch, etc. registered ones) when traveling in Spain, is there a general rule? Should we all get a sticker? Even for short stays?
This is a mess imo. I understand municipalities over 50,000 residents must bring this into FORCE
this year, but each municipality has different restrictions? In my case I have a “B” gasoline car, which comes with many restrictions. When my mother was in a care home last year in Motril, so I could have some respite for two weeks, there was a medical emergency which meant I had to travel to Motril in
my old car to accompany her to hospital. I don’t know if I can do this after this year, without a fine.
Hopefully it’s ok to drive on the ring roads for example round Madrid and Granada… Would imagine there’s going to be a lot of fines when you think of the hundreds of UK cars disembarking off the ferry’s
Re stickers for UK cars, my current understanding is that they cannot (will not?) issue them. However, there is a reciprocal arrangement with the French Crit’Air sticker, which you can get for a UK registered vehicle. Chapter and verse on the equivalence table: https://sede.dgt.gob.es/es/vehiculos/distintivo-ambiental/equivalencia-distintivo-ambiental-ue.shtml
Hi… We are driving to Spain arriving in Santander for a holiday in Almunecar in a few weeks time in our UK reg car.
I’m not sure how these restrictions .apply to us, We will of course be driving round Madrid and Granada on our way but also hope to go to Malaga city and Granada city for the day trips , Can anybody help ?