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Driving in Malta

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

MALTA5080

Speed limits

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

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
80 km/h
M

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code M. 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

  • ABC 123

    Standard · Since 1995

Plate formats and history of Malta

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