Difficult not to pass through France and the Crit Air stickers seems to be in the same box as the breath rest kit.
It is complicated but maybe this helps
Of the over 3,200 cities, towns, villages and hamlets in France. Only 5 will matter
There are just twelve "ZFE-M" city centre low emission critair sticker controlled zones, which limit just some vehicle entries; and even in several of those 12 it's only at certain times of the day or some days of the week.
These are the 12:-
Paris, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Toulouse, Nice, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rouen, Reims, Saint-Etienne, Air-Marseille
it's actually now fallen to just 5 (Paris, Marseilles, Nice, Montpellier, St Etienne) because you no longer need a crit'air sticker at all to visit/transit through the other 7 of them: Rouen, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Reims, Lyon, Grenoble or Annecy.
For any of those 7 you can now instead just get free online individual day-visit-exemptions per year (regardless of the emissions level of your vehicle) entirely for free just by applying online at that city's ZFE-M website.
(Here's the Rouen one for example):
https://zfe.metropole-rouen-normandie.fr/derogations
A critair sticker is NOT REQUIRED at all in any of all the other over 3,195 cities, towns, villages across France. Nor in any of the countryside areas throughout all of France between them.
Any other areas that you may see on some maps are not ZFE-M zones at all, but just ZPA. That is just areas where local/regional "enabling law" has been passed to give the town/City council the theoretical power to impose entry restrictions to the centre of their town for just a day or few, BUT ONLY if there ever was to be an emergency ultra-high air pollution situation, and even if that ever happened, only with 24 hours notice.
Critair stickers are NOT required EVER in any of those towns unless that town centres "ultra high air pollution emergency" temporary town centre restriction was ever activated.
Do a bit of research and see if that has actually EVER happened. In any of them. For even a single day.
The totally inaccurate online scaremongering about crit'air amongst uninformed Brits really is now getting worse.
DO NOT believe the inaccurate, wrong stuff about it that is being spouted in Facebook groups and on several unofficial vested interest "advice" websites.
Instead only go to the official French government Crit'air website.
Here's the link.
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/
They are the only actual real rules, and they are the only places where a Crit'air sticker is required:
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/
It is complicated but maybe this helps
Of the over 3,200 cities, towns, villages and hamlets in France. Only 5 will matter
There are just twelve "ZFE-M" city centre low emission critair sticker controlled zones, which limit just some vehicle entries; and even in several of those 12 it's only at certain times of the day or some days of the week.
These are the 12:-
Paris, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Toulouse, Nice, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rouen, Reims, Saint-Etienne, Air-Marseille
it's actually now fallen to just 5 (Paris, Marseilles, Nice, Montpellier, St Etienne) because you no longer need a crit'air sticker at all to visit/transit through the other 7 of them: Rouen, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Reims, Lyon, Grenoble or Annecy.
For any of those 7 you can now instead just get free online individual day-visit-exemptions per year (regardless of the emissions level of your vehicle) entirely for free just by applying online at that city's ZFE-M website.
(Here's the Rouen one for example):
https://zfe.metropole-rouen-normandie.fr/derogations
A critair sticker is NOT REQUIRED at all in any of all the other over 3,195 cities, towns, villages across France. Nor in any of the countryside areas throughout all of France between them.
Any other areas that you may see on some maps are not ZFE-M zones at all, but just ZPA. That is just areas where local/regional "enabling law" has been passed to give the town/City council the theoretical power to impose entry restrictions to the centre of their town for just a day or few, BUT ONLY if there ever was to be an emergency ultra-high air pollution situation, and even if that ever happened, only with 24 hours notice.
Critair stickers are NOT required EVER in any of those towns unless that town centres "ultra high air pollution emergency" temporary town centre restriction was ever activated.
Do a bit of research and see if that has actually EVER happened. In any of them. For even a single day.
The totally inaccurate online scaremongering about crit'air amongst uninformed Brits really is now getting worse.
DO NOT believe the inaccurate, wrong stuff about it that is being spouted in Facebook groups and on several unofficial vested interest "advice" websites.
Instead only go to the official French government Crit'air website.
Here's the link.
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/
They are the only actual real rules, and they are the only places where a Crit'air sticker is required:
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/