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Norway by campervan: driving, tolls and rules

Driving a campervan in Norway: speed limits, tolls, low-emission zones, required equipment and key road rules. What to know before you go.

Published 18 September 2026Last checked 18 September 2026

Driving

Driving

Norway has almost no toll booths. Tolling is automatic and reads your number plate, under the national AutoPASS system, and there is nowhere to stop and pay. A foreign vehicle without a tag gets found through its national vehicle register and invoiced, which is why a bill can arrive weeks after the trip. The single most valuable thing a motorhome over 3,500 kg can do is get an AutoPASS tag and agreement before arriving, because without one it is billed as a lorry.

A snow-covered road running beside open water below low mountains in winter
No booth, no barrier. A gantry reads the plate and the bill follows you home

AutoPASS, the thing that catches foreign vehicles

  • There is nothing to pay at the roadside. Gantries read the plate. With no tag and no registration, the toll operator looks your vehicle up in your country's register and invoices you, and you pay the lookup fee: AutoPASS lists 14.00 euros for Austria, 8.67 for Spain, 5.10 for Germany and 47.40 zloty for Poland.
  • Two ways to avoid that. Register the vehicle and a card with Epass24, which removes the lookup fee but gives no discount, or take an AutoPASS user agreement with a tag, which gives 20 percent off each passage in most toll facilities.

Speed limits

VehicleBuilt-up areaOutside built-up areasSigned motorway
Up to 3,500 kg50 km/h80 km/hup to 110 km/h
Over 3,500 kg, or towing50 km/h80 km/h80 km/h

Oslo toll ring, one passage in 2026

VehicleOutside rush hourRush hour
Petrol or plug-in hybrid, up to 3,500 kgNOK 38NOK 47
Diesel, up to 3,500 kgNOK 42NOK 50
Electric, up to 3,500 kgNOK 21NOK 26
Over 3,500 kg, Euro 6NOK 109NOK 162
Over 3,500 kg, Euro 5 and olderNOK 161NOK 223

Ferries, and how not to overpay

  • Price follows vehicle length, not weight or passengers. Pay with a tag and the fare covers the driver and everyone in the vehicle.
  • A prepayment agreement with AutoPASS for ferry gives private customers 50 percent off, businesses 40 percent. An AutoPASS approved tag without the prepayment agreement gives 10 percent.

Winter, and which roads shut

  • Sognefjellet, county road 55, 108 km and 1,434 metres at its top, typically closes between 17 November and 17 December and opens between 12 April and 1 May.
  • Trollstigen has closed as early as 5 October and as late as 7 December, and its 2026 opening was set for 29 April. The hairpin section limits buses to 13.3 metres.

Winter tyres and chains are a dated rule here. Studded tyres are allowed from 1 November until the first Sunday after Easter, and from 16 October to 30 April in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. Minimum tread is 3 mm in winter and 1.6 mm in summer. Vehicles over 3,500 kg must carry at least three chains through the same winter period, and must run tyres marked with the three peak mountain snowflake or M+S from 15 November to 31 March. Studded tyres in Oslo also need a permit: NOK 35 a day, NOK 450 a month or NOK 1,400 for the 2026 to 2027 season, doubled above 3,500 kg, with a NOK 750 charge for driving without one.

Fuel

  • Diesel was reported at NOK 28.36 a litre on 14 September 2026. The European Commission's weekly bulletin put the national average at 1.874 euros in the week of 1 July 2026, so the two sources do not agree and the pump board is the only figure that counts.
  • Distances between stations are long in the mountains, in inner Finnmark and along parts of the Helgeland coast. Fill at half a tank, not at a quarter.

The rules that carry a fine

  • 0.2 per mille is the blood alcohol limit, about a quarter of the limit in England. One drink is too many.
  • Dipped headlights are required at all times, day and night, all year.