Spain license plate: Tourist
Issued today Documented since 1999. Temporary plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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T9999LLL, for exampleT3789TBP(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The leading T stands for matrícula Turística, a tax-privileged temporary registration; the red strip at the left prints the month and year it expires.
- T
- Matrícula turística (tourist registration)
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
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520 × 110 mm · every country's size
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Tourist 340×220 mm
temporary · 340 × 220 mm
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- About this plate
- MATRÍCULA TURÍSTICA, a tax-privileged temporary registration with the expiry month in ROMAN numerals and the year in Arabic on a red vertical band. The only Spanish plate that carries its own expiry date on its face, and the only one whose band sits on the right.
Legal basis and sources
- Anexo XVIII I.B.b) matrícula turística: white ground, black matte characters, letter T + 4 digits + 3 letters, RED expiry band with white adhesive characters; Cuadro 3: band 30 mm, characters 15x8x2 mm https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is es-tourist-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-tourist-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/es/es-tourist-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/es/es-tourist-1999/template.svg
