# British Columbia licence plate: Standard 2025

> The British Columbia standard 2025 license plate: format L999LL, for example X336WJ, 2025 to today, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [British Columbia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia) (13 registration series).

![British Columbia (Canada) license plate, Standard 2025 (2025 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-standard-2025/british-columbia-license-plate-standard-2025.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `L999LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2025 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #12326E |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `ca-bc-standard-2025` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/standard-2025) |

Sources:

- [pattern, alphabet, rollout month, unchanged-base statement](https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf)
- [MVA s. 12(1)(b): the design is ICBC's to determine](https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96318_01)

## About this plate

Rollout, verbatim: "ICBC will be gradually introducing new licence plate character configurations on some British Columbia licence plates.

## How numbers are issued

not published. ICBC states only that the recut exists to extend the six-character space; no block-allocation order was found.

## Separators

ICBC prints the pattern and its example SOLID.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard 2014](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/standard-2014) | 2014 to 2025 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Commercial truck](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/commercial-truck-2025) (2025 to today)
- [Industrial](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/industrial-2025) (2025 to today)
- [Prorate](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/prorate-2025) (2025 to today)
- [Standard 2014](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/canada--british-columbia/standard-2014) (2014 to 2025)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-standard-2025.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/british-columbia?series=ca-bc-standard-2025
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "ca-bc-standard-2025"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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