Is it possible to enter with a car label B in Madrid ZBE?

The Madrid 360 traffic restriction measures affect vehicles with a different scope depending on the environmental label of the General Directorate of Traffic with which they are categorized. Access and mobility restrictions are less severe for ECO and Zero Emissions cars. But, can you enter the Madrid Low Emissions Zone with a label B car?

Of course, cars with environmental label B (petrol vehicles registered between January 2021 and December 2005, and diesel vehicles registered between 2006 and 2013) are the ones that will experience the most restrictions in the future.

While those that do not carry a label will have access to the Low Emission Zones (ZBE) prohibited from 2023, cars with a B label will be added to this prohibition from 2025.

This means that in the next four years thousands of cars will not be authorized to access these low-pollution zones, areas that, before 2023, Spanish municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants must adopt. It is estimated that some 150 cities will have their own ZBE next year.

In the case of cities that do already have these specific low-emission zones active, as is the case of Madrid and Barcelona, ​​cars with a B label currently have some access and mobility restrictions.

Is it possible to enter with a car label B in Madrid ZBE?

In Madrid ZBE, passenger cars with DGT label B will not be able to access unless:

• Park in a public parking lot.
• The owner is registered in the Central District and the vehicle is domiciled in the city of Madrid.
• Be a company or freelancer and carry out your activity in a local or office located in the Central District, or be someone invited by one of them.
• It is intended for the transport of people holding a parking card for people with reduced mobility.
• Have a private parking space or be the assignee or lessee of a municipal parking space for residents located in the Central District.
• Be it a VTC with a previously contracted service with origin or destination in the Central District, or a taxi. In both cases, the vehicle must be assigned to this purpose prior to the entry into force of the Sustainable Mobility Ordinance.
• Have an authorization from the qualified group of holders of commercial and industrial vehicles of the SER.
• Access a vehicle repair shop located in the Central District.
• Be a necessary vehicle for carrying out occupations and acts on public roads, authorized by the Madrid City Council.
• Be used by the lawyers of the Duty Duty Service for the exclusive exercise of said service.
• Be used to drop off or pick up infant, primary, and secondary school students whose needs so require.
• Be of workers of establishments in the interior of the Central District with night hours (between 00:00 and 06:00 hours).

If scenario 2 is activated, cars with label B will not be able to park in the spaces and hours of the SER, with certain exceptions. In scenario 4 they will not be able to circulate inside the M-30 nor on the M-30 itself and if the alert scenario were activated they would not be able to circulate either.

On the contrary, in the case of a motorcycle or a moped with label B, it can be accessed without restriction from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Outside these hours, you must have an access authorization, park in a car park, invite a resident or establishment, have a parking space…

You can check on this website of the Madrid City Council if your car can access according to the license plate or consult the rest of the entry and mobility restrictions for the other environmental labels of the DGT.