Milan Area C and Area B map, hours, fines and parking outside

Area C is the limited-traffic zone in the centre. You enter it with a daily ticket. Electronic gates read the plate.

Area B covers much of the city. An allowed car pays nothing there. A car that pollutes too much does not enter during the active hours, even though there is no ticket to buy. You can be allowed in one zone and refused in the other: check the plate for each zone.

Both zones have the same hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 19:30, public holidays excluded.

Saturday, Sunday and public holidays are outside those hours. That is only Area C and Area B: a pedestrian street or another restriction can stay closed.

The tariff in force since 30 October 2023 is €7.50 for the day, for every vehicle on that line of the scale. With this ticket the same car enters and leaves as often as it needs that day. Paying €7.50 does not authorise a car the plate check says is banned.

After you buy it, you activate the ticket by linking its code to the plate. Online activation is open to everyone and does not need a MyAreaC account. Registration is required for the higher ticket “within 7 days”, and for some exemptions.

A car parked in a garage inside Area C pays €4.50. A payment made after midnight on the day after entry, and before midnight on the seventh day, costs €22.50. The €22.50 settles the access charge paid late. It does not replace the highway-code fine.

Linking the ticket code to the plate online does not need an account. The €22.50 ticket does need a MyAreaC registration.

Area B bans, during the active hours, the most polluting vehicles, goods vehicles longer than 12 metres, and vehicles carrying dangerous goods. The blind-spot device applies only to lorries, vans and buses in categories M2, N2, M3 and N3. A private car does not need that device to enter. Allowed vehicles pay nothing.

The ban calendar runs to 2030. A car allowed this year may not be allowed later. Enter the plate on the Comune site before you set off.

Exemptions exist for residents, non-residents and businesses. You request them on the permits page. They do not apply by themselves when you arrive.

The Comune pages do not state a Milan-only amount. The highway code sets the ranges.

Entering a limited-traffic zone without being allowed leads to €83 to €332 (article 7, paragraph 14). Not paying the ticket in a charged zone falls in the same range, and the day's charge is added (paragraph 14-bis).

Driving in Area B in a vehicle below the required emission class leads to €168 to €678. If the same breach happens again within two years, the licence can be suspended for 15 to 30 days (paragraph 13-bis). The fine notice states the amount applied.