Germany license plate: Seasonal
Issued today 1997 to today. Seasonal plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, set by the Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV). One of 13 Germany license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL-LL 999, for exampleGG-CQ 269(L is any letter, 9 any digit)District and serial decode as normal; the meaning is the stacked pair of numbers at the right edge, first and last month of the operating season. Drive, or even street-park, outside that window and the plate is void.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1997 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Seasonal: validity-window plates (German Saisonkennzeichen). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Zeitraums in Betrieb gesetzt oder abgestellt werden", § 23 Abs. 1b verbatim).
- How long it is valid
- min months: 2. max months: 11. note: "Der Betriebszeitraum ist auf volle Monate zu bemessen. Der Betriebszeitraum muss mindestens zwei Monate und darf höchstens elf Monate umfassen" (§ 10 Abs. 3). Outside the period the vehicle may neither be operated NOR PARKED on public roads. Trips to deregister, and return trips after the seal is removed, count as unstamped plates under § 12 Abs. 4.
Legal basis and sources
- § 10 Abs. 3: Saisonkennzeichen on application; Betriebszeitraum as an amtlicher Zusatz behind the Erkennungsnummer; full months, 2-11 months; green plates may also be seasonal; the operate-and-park prohibition https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__10.html
- Anlage 4 Abschnitt 5: the four seasonal plate forms and the month-field rule https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/anlage_4.html
- media.offenegesetze.de https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/1996/bgbl1_1996_60.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is de-seasonal. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Germany's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/de \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "de-seasonal")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/de/de-seasonal.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/de/de-seasonal/template.svg
