Low Emission Zones Germany

What German cities are you required to have an environmental badge? What type of an environmental badge is needed in order to enter the particular city? Please read below.

Types of environmental badges Cities with a low emission zone in Germany Map of green zones in Germany

Types of environmental
badges

You can learn more information about types of environmental badges in the section Types of Environmental Badges.

Cities with a low emission zone
in Germany

The obligation to mark your vehicle with an environmental badge was established in the following German cities (the list also states a date from which the obligation came into force in the particular city).

Date	City
1 January 2008	Berlin, Hanover, Cologne
12 January 2008	Dortmund
1 March 2008	Ilsfeld, Leonberg, Ludwigsburg, Mannheim, Reutlingen, Stuttgart, Tübingen
1 January 2008	Pleidelsheim
1 October 2008	Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Gelsenkirchen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Munich, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen
1 January 2009	Bremen, Heilbronn, Herrenberg, Karlsruhe, Mühlacker, Pforzheim, Ulm
15 February 2009	Düsseldorf, Wuppertal
1 July 2009	Augsburg
1 November 2009	Neu-Ulm
1 January 2010	Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Münster, Pfinztal
4 January 2010	Osnabrück
15 February 2010	Neuss
1 January 2011	Krefeld
1 March 2011	Leipzig
1 July 2011	Markgrönningen, Dinslaken
1 January 2011	Magdeburg, Halle (Saale)
1 January 2012	Ruhr area: Bochum, Bottrop, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Gladbeck, Herne, Herten, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen
1 October 2012	Erfurt
1 January 2013	Ludwigsburg district (Asperg, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Freiberg am Neckar, Ingersheim, Kornwestheim, Ludwigsburg, Markgröningen, Möglingen, Pleidelsheim, Tamm), Langenfeld, Mönchengladbach, Remscheid
1 February 2013	Wiesbaden, Mainz
2 April 2013	Wendlingen
1 July 2013	Schramberg
2 December 2013	Leonberg/Hemmingen and surrounding area (Leonberg, Hemmingen, Ditzingen, Gerlingen, Korntal-Münchingen, Schwieberdingen)
1 January 2015	Offenbach, Siegen
1 November 2015	Darmstadt
1 February 2016	Aachen
1 April 2016	Marburg
1 June 2016	Eschweiler
1 October 2017	Overath
15 January 2018	Regensburg
31 January 2018	Limburg an der Lahn

Generally, most cities require a green badge. On our website you can find detailed information about two most visited German cities, Berlin and Munich.

Berlin Green Zone

Berlin introduced an obligation to acquire an environmental badge for your vehicle on 1st January 2008. From this date only vehicles marked with a green, yellow or red badge are allowed to enter the environmental zone established in Berlin. A year later, on 1st January 2009, only vehicles marked with a green or yellow badge could enter the city and from 1st January 2010 all vehicles must acquire a green badge prior to entering this environmental zone. The exception applies only to German vehicles which were allowed to enter with a yellow badge until 31st December 2014.

Munich Green Zone

Munich, similarly to Berlin, first introduced the obligation to mark a vehicle with a green, yellow or red badge prior to entering the environmental zone which was established on 1st October 2008. Two years later, on 1st October 2010, all vehicles passing through this city had to be marked with only a green or yellow badge and from 10th January 2012, only vehicles with a green badge are allowed to enter.

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