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Driving in Latvia

The licence plates you will see on the road in Latvia, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

LATVIA5090

Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
90 km/h

80 km/h on gravel roads.

Before you drive

Environmental zones
Riga charges a fee for driving into its Old Town.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

LV

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code LV. Plates carry it on the blue EU band, which counts as the country sign: no separate oval sticker is needed in the European Economic Area, and the plate is also valid in other countries of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry no regional code, so the letters and numbers do not tell where a car is from.

Plates you will see

  • AB-1234

    Standard · Since 1993

Special plates

Plate formats and history of Latvia

Sources