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The Crit'Air sticker: the only site to buy it from, and what it costs

By Covered Abroad Research Desk · Last verified July 2026

France's air-quality vignette is ordered from one place: certificat-air.gouv.fr, the official Crit'Air site. The price is €3.11 plus €0.74 postage — €3.85 per vehicle — and the site includes a simulator to check your vehicle's class from the registration certificate before ordering. Foreign-registered vehicles need one too when driving in a low-emission zone (ZFE), and unofficial resellers charge multiples of the real price.

One official site, one real price

The site says it itself: le site officiel de la vignette Crit'Air (certificat qualité de l'air) — and the price it charges is €3.11 plus €0.74 postage, €3.85 per vehicle. That number matters because the Crit'Air ecosystem is infested with lookalike resellers charging several times the official rate for the same sticker. Order from certificat-air.gouv.fr, enter the details from your certificat d'immatriculation (the old carte grise), and the vignette arrives by post.

Source: certificat-air.gouv.fr — site officiel de la vignette Crit'Air, read 10 September 2026.

Check your class before you order

The official site carries a Connaître mon classement simulator: enter the registration-certificate details and it returns the vehicle's Crit'Air class. The class — not the sticker itself — is what a ZFE (zone à faibles émissions) restricts on: each zone sets which classes may enter and when, and the site's ZFE section (Tout savoir sur les ZFE) is the official map of where the rules bite.

Source: certificat-air.gouv.fr — classement et ZFE, read 10 September 2026.

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Foreign plates need one too

The vignette attaches to the vehicle, not the nationality: a foreign-registered car driving into a French ZFE needs its Crit'Air like any local — the official site processes foreign registrations. For a mover, the sequencing is the practical point: if you re-register the car in France (the carte grise process), the new registration needs its own vignette. Sibling reading: Spain's etiqueta system and Germany's Umweltplakette — three countries, three stickers, one windscreen.

Source: certificat-air.gouv.fr, read 10 September 2026.

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Common questions

How much does the Crit'Air sticker cost?

€3.11 plus €0.74 postage — €3.85 per vehicle — from the official certificat-air.gouv.fr site. Anything priced far above that is a reseller markup for the same sticker.

Do I need Crit'Air for a foreign-registered car?

Yes, when driving in a ZFE — the official site takes foreign registrations. Order well before travel; it arrives by post.

Which Crit'Air class is my car?

Run the official simulator on certificat-air.gouv.fr with your registration-certificate details — class depends on fuel, Euro standard and first-registration date.

Where do the restrictions actually apply?

In each ZFE, on that zone's own schedule and class rules — the official site's ZFE section maps them. The sticker is national; the restrictions are local.

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