Statute text read on 4 August 2026

What an Italian traffic fine actually costs, and what it does to your licence

The Codice della Strada does not set a tariff. It sets a corridor from a minimum to a maximum, and the figure you pay is the minimum. Here is the corridor, the payable figure, the points and the deadlines, with the article beside every number.

Calculate a speeding fine Open the fine catalogue

Every figure with its article
No personal data asked for
No advertising

The figures

Three numbers

These are the three that decide what an Italian driver does in the days after the notice arrives.

How it works

How to read an Italian fine

Read the corridor, not one figureThe article states a minimum and a maximum. It is the MINIMUM you pay: art. 202 calls it «una somma pari al minimo fissato dalle singole norme» — a sum equal to the minimum the individual provision sets.
Find the date on the noticeThe clock starts at roadside service if the notice was handed to you, and at postal service if it came in the post. They are two different dates.
Check whether the licence is touchedPoints, suspension, or both. Where an accessory sanction applies, the five-day reduction is not available at all.

Finding your row

Got a fine? Start with what is written on the notice itself.

The three things that decide everything — the article charged, the date the clock starts from, and the accessory sanctions — are already on the paper in your hand.

The article chargedIt sets the corridor, the points and the accessories.
The date the clock startsRoadside or postal service: two different dates.
The accessory sanctionsSuspension or confiscation rules out the five-day reduction.

How to read the notice

Fine catalogue

The catalogue, by category

Ten categories, each with a table built straight off the articles. Where the statute sets no ceiling for a row, the column stays empty: we do not invent a maximum.

Categories with no rows yet:ZTL Tyres Electric scooters

Italian traffic fine catalogue

Tools

The tools

Two calculators. The first starts from the speed written on your notice rather than from the excess, because the art. 345 reduction applies before the band is chosen.

What we found

What the Codice della Strada does NOT say

Four things readers take for granted that are not in the text, or are not where they look for them. Each with its article, and with the exact place the rule actually lives.

Newly qualified

There is no article about doubling points for newly qualified drivers

The rule exists, but it lives in the CLOSING NOTE of the table annexed to art. 126-bis — outside the article and outside art. 117. Anyone looking where it is natural to look finds nothing — including us: an earlier pass of this same research concluded the rule was absent, after checking both articles and the extracted table in full. That was wrong, and the retraction is on the record.

cite: Table annexed to art. 126-bis, closing note
Texts searched: Art. 126-bis, art. 117, the points table (99 extracted lines), a search across the whole consolidated text

Points

Points are subtracted from a balance, not accumulated

This is the inverse of the accrual model most cross-border readers bring with them. And the highest reachable figure is written nowhere: it is the sum of two provided values, and we show it as derived.

cite: Art. 126-bis
Texts searched: Art. 126-bis and its annexed table, consolidated text

Criminal threshold

Above the threshold there is no reduced payment at all

Not because a provision forbids it, but because above the threshold the act is no longer an administrative offence: it is a crime punished by ammenda and arresto. No reduced payment, no further reduction, no ordinary window. That art. 202 cannot reach that band is, however, our inference from its wording, not an express exclusion.

cite: Artt. 186 and 202
Texts searched: Artt. 186, 186-bis, 187 and 202, consolidated text

2027

No 2027 figure exists yet

Every amount on this site is bounded by a decree due by the end of 2026, effective the following year, indexed to an ISTAT variation that will only be ascertained once the two-year period closes. The index does not exist, the decree does not exist, and we do not even know the sign of the variation: the last comparable period was negative.

cite: Art. 195 co. 3 CdS; L. 197/2022 art. 1 co. 497 as amended
Texts searched: Art. 195 CdS, L. 197/2022, D.L. 31 December 2025 no. 200

In brief

Points come off — they do not build up

An Italian licence starts at a full allocation and goes down. Readers arriving from Germany or France expect the opposite and get the arithmetic backwards.

Italian licence points

Initial allocation20 / 20

Frequently asked

The minimum. Art. 202 CdS describes the reduced payment as «una somma pari al minimo fissato dalle singole norme» — a sum equal to the minimum the individual provision sets. It is not a discount off the maximum; it is the floor of the charged article's own corridor.

No, and it is the exception rather than the rule. It is ruled out wherever the offence carries confiscation of the vehicle (art. 210 co. 3) or suspension of the licence — and a large share of the catalogue carries one of those two.

No: in Italy they come off. The licence starts at a full allocation and goes down, with a cap on how much a single occasion can cost — and that cap is disapplied entirely where suspension or revocation is ordered for the violation.

Yes, and it is written down. Art. 142 co. 6 CdS defers measuring devices to the implementing regulation, and D.P.R. 16 December 1992, no. 495, art. 345 co. 2 provides that «al valore rilevato sia applicata una riduzione pari al 5%, con un minimo di 5 km/h» — instrumental tolerance already included. The reduction applies before the band is chosen.

No. Past the threshold the offence is no longer administrative but a crime punished by fine and detention: there is no reduced payment, no further reduction and no sixty-day window. That art. 202 cannot reach a criminal band is, however, our INFERENCE from its wording, not an exclusion stated in any single provision.

Method note: these questions do not come from a measured question corpus. Italian question-mining returned no usable rows, so the set is grounded in the statute and in observed search results — stated rather than implied.

Next step

Start from the number on your notice

The calculator shows the art. 345 reduction step by step, then the band, then the payable figure and the deadlines.

Open the calculator