Andorra license plates

16 registration series, sourced from Govern d'Andorra, Registre de Vehicles — Decret 456/2022, del 9-11-2022, Reglament de la fabricació i la instal·lació de les plaques de matrícula.

Andorra's plates say PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA in full above the number and carry the national escut — and, because Andorra sits outside the EU, there is no blue Euro-band at all. The whole country shares one national series; there is nothing regional to encode in a state 25 km across.

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Worth knowing

A national plate with no Euro-band

Andorra is not an EU member, so its plates have no blue band — the national escut and the full country name do the identifying instead.

standard plates 6

the default series issued to private road vehicles

Standard numeric

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~1999 → today documented from 1999 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer

Special vehicle

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~1999 → today documented from 1999 — the format is likely older issued for: machine, truck

Standard letter

Andorra's current national series — a letter and four digits under PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA and the escut, for a country of 80,000 people.

The letter is not a district, a class or a year — Andorra simply exhausted its five-digit numbers and put a letter in front to keep counting. Cars, trailers and semi-trailers share the one sequence, so the string cannot even tell you which you are behind.

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

2011 → today issued for: car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer

Snow vehicle

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: snow-vehicle

Giny mecanic

The digits are a plain counter; the message is spelled out beneath them: NO APTE VIA PÚBLICA — "not fit for the public highway". It is a plate whose entire job is to declare that its own vehicle must not be on the road.

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: machine

Standard letter 275×90 mm

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

2011 → today issued for: car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer

motorcycle plates 2

reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs

Motorcycle

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

2011 → today issued for: motorcycle

Motorcycle 100×168 mm

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

2011 → today issued for: motorcycle

moped plates 1

insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates)

Moped

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: moped

historic plates 2

vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico)

Historic failed ITV

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, motorcycle

Historic passed ITV

All digits, yet fully decodable: numbers 58001 through 58999 are reserved for historic vehicles that have passed the roadworthiness test, so an Andorran plate starting 58 is a certified classic hiding in an ordinary-looking number. The ones that failed wear red instead.

In the sample, 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, motorcycle

personalized plates 1

owner-chosen serials inside an official frame

Personalized

The characters mean exactly what the buyer paid them to mean — within one statutory fence: no vanity plate may read MT, CD, CMD, A or CC followed by digits, nor the word PROVA, because those strings are the reserved voices of Andorra's official series.

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.

~2014 → today documented from 2014 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, motorcycle

dealer plates 1

trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle

Dealer prova

PROVA is not an acronym — it is simply Catalan for "test", stamped on the trade plate a dealer's vehicles wear while out on trial. The three digits are the shortest serial in the Andorran catalogue.

In the sample, 9 for any digit.

~1999 → today documented from 1999 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, motorcycle

temporary plates 1

short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration)

Temporary MT

MT echoes the plate's statutory name, matrícula temporal, and the red panel opposite spells out its death date — expiry month in Roman numerals, year in Arabic ones. A temporary plate that tells you, in two numeral systems, exactly when it stops being valid.

MT: matrícula temporal — temporary registration

In the sample, 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~1999 → today documented from 1999 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van, motorcycle

diplomatic plates 3

diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode

Diplomatic CMD

CMD is the head of a diplomatic mission, with a single digit for a serial; the final letter names the sending state, assigned by the foreign ministry. Rank descends by digit count: CMD gets one, CD two, CC three.

CMD: Cap de la missió diplomàtica — head of diplomatic mission

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van

Diplomatic CD

CD is the cos diplomàtic — accredited diplomats below head-of-mission rank — and, as across the whole family, the closing letter identifies the sending state. Two digits, one more than the ambassador's plate: in Andorra, rank is measured in serial length.

CD: Cos diplomàtic — diplomatic corps

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van

Diplomatic staff A

A bare A marks an embassy's administrative and technical staff — the decree never says whether it abbreviates anything — with the sending state again in the final letter. Rank also lives in the shade: staff plates wear a statutorily lighter blue than the diplomats'.

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van

consular plates 1

consular corps where distinct from diplomatic

Consular CC

CC marks the cos consular, and the final letter names the sending state, assigned by the foreign ministry from a table that has never surfaced. Rank shows in the digit count: consuls get three, the diplomatic corps two, a head of mission just one.

CC: Cos consular — consular corps

In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit; the other characters are fixed.

~2011 → today documented from 2011 — the format is likely older issued for: car, van