All low-emission zones in Germany
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Filter by state or search for a place: the list shows each zone with its status, the date of the green stage and the source.
Zones in this selection
35
35 active and 0 lifted
| Active in Germany | 35 |
| Lifted | 23 |
| List as of | 26 August 2026 |
The German Environment Agency keeps a list of all low-emission zones in Germany, last changed on 26 August 2026. It shows 35 active zones and 23 lifted ones. Every active zone is now at stage three: only vehicles with a green sticker or an exemption may enter. Most zones are in North Rhine-Westphalia, including the joint Ruhr zone, which spans 13 cities from Duisburg to Dortmund. Next come Hesse with Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Wiesbaden, Marburg and Limburg, Bavaria with Munich, Augsburg and Regensburg, and Baden-Württemberg, where after many liftings only Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg with its neighbouring towns, and Pforzheim remain. Single zones exist in Berlin, Bremen, Leipzig, Halle, Magdeburg and Osnabrück. Hamburg, Dresden, Nuremberg, Kiel and the Saarland, among others, have no zone. Every zone in the list carries at least one source from an authority that we checked on 29 October 2026; where cities and the Agency give different dates, the city page says so.
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Active zones by state
| State | Zones | Names |
|---|---|---|
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 17 | Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Dinslaken, Düsseldorf, Eschweiler, Hagen, Krefeld, Langenfeld, Mönchengladbach, Münster, Neuss, Overath, Remscheid, Ruhr area, Siegen, Wuppertal |
| Hesse | 6 | Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Limburg an der Lahn, Marburg, Offenbach, Wiesbaden |
| Baden-Württemberg | 3 | Ludwigsburg and surroundings, Pforzheim, Stuttgart |
| Bavaria | 3 | Augsburg, Munich, Regensburg |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 2 | Halle (Saale), Magdeburg |
| Berlin | 1 | Berlin |
| Bremen | 1 | Bremen |
| Lower Saxony | 1 | Osnabrück |
| Saxony | 1 | Leipzig |
Where the states describe their zones
For North Rhine-Westphalia the Environment Ministry keeps the list, for Hesse the Environment Ministry in Wiesbaden, for Baden-Württemberg the Transport Ministry and for Bavaria the Environment Ministry. State pages are not always as up to date as city pages; we matched every zone against at least one of these sources.
Driving through several zones
Long journeys often cross several zones. The route check tests up to five places at once. What an offence costs is on the fines page; which zones no longer exist is on the lifted zones page.