Home Cities and driving bans
The following overview lists 37 cities that are threatening to introduce diesel restriction zones (blue zones) in 2018 due to NOx high levels.
Also listed are 29 cities whose NOx levels are not yet certain for 2017. Should the notified annual mean values exceed 40 µg NOx/m³, diesel restriction zones could be introduced.
In 25 listed cities, the NOx levels appear to be below the specified limits. No current driving bans are likely to be imposed.
| Probable driving bans | Possible driving bans | Probably no driving bans |
| Annual mean value 2016/2017 | Annual mean value 2016/* | Annual mean value 2016/2017 |
| . | . | . |
| München (80, 78) | Düren (60) | Dresden (45, 40) |
| Stuttgart (82, 73) | Backnang (56) | Koblenz (43, 40) |
| Köln (63, 62) | Marbach am Neckar (55) | Leipzig (42, 40) |
| Reutlingen (66, 60) | Esslingen am Neckar (54) | Bremen (41, 39) |
| Hamburg (62, 58) | Offenbach am Main (51) | Fulda (41, 39) |
| Düsseldorf (58, 56) | Bochum (50) | Kassel (43, 39) |
| Kiel (65, 56) | Paderborn (50) | Norderstedt (44, 39) |
| Heilbronn (57, 55) | Bielefeld (49) | Würzburg (42, 38) |
| Darmstadt (55, 52) | Bonn (49) | Marburg (47, 36) |
| Ludwigsburg (53, 51) | Herrenberg (49) | Potsdam (43, 34) |
| Dortmund (51, 50) | Mühlacker (49) | Eschweiler (42/*) |
| Wiesbaden (53, 50) | Ravensburg (49) | Gladbeck (42/*) |
| Berlin (52, 49) | Siegen (48) | Heidelberg (42/*) |
| Freiburg i.Br. (41, 49) | Hürth (47) | Remscheid (42/*) |
| Oberhausen (48, 49) | Leinfelden (47) | Walzbachtal (42/*) |
| Oldenburg (Oldb) (50, 49) | Echterdingen Pleidelsh. (47) | Freiberg am Neckar (41/*) |
| Wuppertal (49, 49) | Herne (45) | Halle (Westf.) (41/*) |
| Hagen (51, 48) | Mülheim an der Ruhr (45) | Ilsfeld (41/*) |
| Mainz (53, 48) | Neuss (45) | Krefeld (41/*) |
| Tübingen (48, 48) | Witten (45) | Langenfeld (Rhld.) (41) |
| Frankfurt am Main (52, 47) | Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (44) | Markgröningen (41) |
| Solingen (2017 neu: 47) | Hildesheim (44) | Mettmann (41/*) |
| Aachen (49, 46) | Kuchen (44) | Mögglingen (41/*) |
| Gelsenkirchen (48, 46) | Mönchengladbach (44) | Overath (41/*) |
| Leverkusen (45, 46) | Schwerte (44) | Rüsselsheim am Main (41/*) |
| Limburg a.d. Lahn (60, 45) | Bensheim (43) | |
| Mannheim (46, 45) | Dinslaken (43) | |
| Augsburg (46, 44) | Hameln (43) | |
| Hannover (55, 44) | Schwäbisch Gmünd (43) | |
| Ludwigshafen/Rh. (46, 44) | ||
| Osnabrück (48, 44) | ||
| Halle (Saale) (46, 43) | ||
| Leonberg (47, 43) | ||
| Nürnberg (46, 43) | ||
| Gießen (44, 42) | ||
| Essen (51, 41) | ||
| Regensburg (42, 41) | ||
* Measurements from 2017 not yet known
The Blue Badge for Diesel Restriction Zones
In Germany, the Blue Badge might be introduced in 2020. It is required to access diesel restriction zones.
In 2020, cities and communities will introduce driving restrictions for various EURO classes of diesel vehicles. Therefore, the Blue Badge becomes a need in order to distinguish older diesel vehicles and EURO classes as well as petrol vehicles without particle filter from vehicles with a lower emission of pollutants.
Vehicles which should get a Blue Badge
General information about diesel restriction zones and implementation.
Already set diesel restriction zones (Blue Zones): Hamburg and Stuttgart
Possible cities and municipalities for diesel restriction zones