# France license plate: W garage 2026

> The France W garage 2026 license plate: format W-999-LL, for example W-789-KJ, 2026 to today, cited to Ministère de l'intérieur.

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Part of [France license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france) (17 registration series).

![France license plate, W garage 2026 (2026 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2026/france-license-plate-w-garage-2026.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `W-999-LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2026 → today |
| Class | dealer |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, machine |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Colours | background #FF41B2; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `fr-wgarage-2026` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/wgarage-2026) |

Same trade W, same grammar — the decode moved into the colour. Black on pink exists only from 1 January 2026, so a pink W plate dates itself: no French plate wore pink before.

Sources:

- [annexe 7 item 4 (version en vigueur depuis le 01/01/2026): 'Le numéro d'immatriculation est reproduit sur chaque plaque d'immatriculation en caractères noirs sur fond rose.'](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050)
- [arrêté du 21 novembre 2025 (NOR INTS2532392A) art. 1 (inserts annexe 7 item 4), art. 2 (inserts art. 1 bis and the pink coordinates into the arrêté du 15 avril 1996), art. 3 ('Le présent arrêté entre en vigueur le 1er janvier 2026')](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000052971649)
- [annexe VII B: the W garage number composition, unchanged](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732)

## About this plate

W GARAGE FROM 1 JANUARY 2026, black on PINK. The most useful new date signal in European plate data: a pink French plate cannot predate 2026, and before 2026 no French instrument prescribed any colour for these plates at all. Note also what the change reveals about French plate law's shape, the pink plate had to be exempted from the 1996 homologation arrêté to exist, because a pink retroreflective product is not a homologated type.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [W garage 2009](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/wgarage-2009) | 2009 to 2025 |

## Other dealer plates here

- [W garage 2009](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/wgarage-2009) (2009 to 2025)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-wgarage-2026.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/france?series=fr-wgarage-2026
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "fr-wgarage-2026"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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