ZTL Map

Bologna ZTL Map 2026: Hours, Hotels and the 24 Hour Zones

By Josep Mampel Marques, updated

The Bologna historic centre ZTL is active every day from 07:00 to 20:00, Italian time, weekends included; outside those hours cars may enter. Inside it there are smaller zones that apply 24 hours a day, including the university area. Search your hotel or tap the map below to see whether a point is inside the ZTL and whether it is active now.

What the map shows

Both boundaries come from OpenStreetMap, where they are maintained with the Comune di Bologna as the stated author (last edited in January 2026). The Comune's own open data boundary is from 2021 and has a geometry error in the main polygon, so we use OpenStreetMap. The Comune publishes the positions of its ZTL cameras, but the map does not show them yet. Zona T and the small zones Pratello-San Francesco and Moline-Capo di Lucca are mapped in OpenStreetMap as streets, not areas, so they are not on our map.

Bologna ZTL hours

ZoneHours in the checker (Italian time)Confidence
Centro StoricoRestricted every day 07:00 to 20:00 (cars allowed 20:00 to 07:00)OpenStreetMap
Zona UniversitàNot verifiedNone yet

The Centro Storico hours come from the OpenStreetMap tag of the zone, which says that motor vehicles are allowed from 20:00 to 07:00. Bologna Welcome, the city's official tourism site, gives the same hours: 07:00 to 20:00 every day. The checker does not know about public holidays and treats them like any other day, which for an every day zone makes no difference.

Inside the main zone, the university area and Zona T apply 24 hours a day. Our checker shows the university zone as "Hours not verified" because OpenStreetMap carries no hours for it and we have not checked them in an official source. In practice, if a point is in the university zone, do not drive in at any time without an authorisation, and read the sign at the entrance.

Hotel inside the Bologna ZTL

Bologna has an official procedure, described by Bologna Welcome. Hotels and B&Bs inside the ZTL send their guests' plates to the Comune through agreed procedures, and the plates are then added to the list of vehicles authorised to enter, so the guest is not fined. The page does not give a deadline, and it does not say whether the authorisation covers only arrival and departure or the whole stay, so ask your hotel:

Bologna Welcome also describes a daily parking pass sold by hotels to their guests for 9 EUR, which includes a daily TPER bus ticket. It is valid for 24 hours from validation in paid blue line parking across the city, and it must show your plate, the hotel's stamp and the validation date and time, written in by the hotel. More on how other cities handle this in hotel inside a ZTL.

Practical tips

Not sure what the gate looks like? See how to recognise a ZTL sign and camera.

Sources

Hours checked on 9 November 2026.