Italy

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Drives on the right · EUR · reviewed 22 Oct 2026

Fuel this week

Diesel£1.872.25 €

Petrol 95£1.672.01 €

LPG£0.660.79 €

Per litre, with tax. Diesel is 12p cheaper than at home. Week of 26 Oct 2026, European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices with taxes). Converted at the ECB rate of 30 Oct 2026 (£0.834 to the euro).

Italy → Switzerland +33p
Slovenia → Italy +28p
Austria → Italy +10p
Italy → France +9p

What to know

Tolls and vignettes

Autostrade tolled by distance and class: vans over 1.3 m at the front axle are class B, about €8–9 per 100 km. The Mont Blanc and Fréjus tunnels from France cost about €60–75 each way for a van.

Clean air zones

ZTL zones in the historic centre of almost every town fine by camera; the signs are small and the fines arrive a year later. Milan's Area B bans older diesels.

Sleeping in the van

Legal to park and sleep anywhere parking is allowed, as long as the vehicle is not 'camping' (nothing out, no levelling). Aree di sosta everywhere, €5–20. Beaches and towns ban by sign in summer.

Kit you must carry

Warning triangle, hi-vis vest. Winter tyres or chains on board on signed roads from mid-November.

Speed limits, van under 3.5 t

130 / 90 / 50; vans over 3.5 t 100 motorway

When to go

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Northern Italy	6°	9°	14°	18°	23°	27°	30°	29°	25°	18°	12°	7°

A dot marks the months we would pick: warm enough, dry enough, not yet crowded. Rounded from 1991–2020 normals. Coasts and mountains differ from their region.

Crossings

Mediterranean

Sète / Genoa / Barcelona – Tanger Med

GNV, Baleària · 28–48 h · weekly to several weekly

Car €400–800 return with a cabin
Van or camper €500–1,000 return with a cabin

Mediterranean

Marseille / Genoa / Palermo – Tunis

CTN, GNV, Corsica Linea · 20–24 h · several weekly in season

Car €350–700 return with a cabin
Van or camper €450–900 return with a cabin

Adriatic

Ancona / Bari / Brindisi – Igoumenitsa / Patras

Superfast, Minoan, Grimaldi, ANEK · 8–20 h · daily

Car €200–450 one way
Van or camper €300–650 one way (camping on board allowed on most in summer)

Routes through here

Italy to the Peloponnese by ferry: Camp on deck, wake up in Greece.

Fuel: European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices with taxes); Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Weekly road fuel prices (OGL v3); European Central Bank reference rate. EU figures are the week of 26 Oct 2026; UK the week of 26 Oct 2026; † marks hand-checked indicative figures for countries outside both series. Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Climate: rounded 1991–2020 normals from national meteorological services. Crossings and country notes are our own and dated. Something here is out of date already, so check before you go.