Know the rules.
Skip the fines.

What is fineable for a tourist in 120 European cities, and the ordinance or law behind each rule. Every page shows the date we last read its sources.

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By approximate annual visitors. The figure is the highest fine on each page we have read against its instrument or have no reason to doubt.

ParisMost of what catches a visitor here is one figure — the €68 fixed fine — and the exception is the Crit’Air sticker, which catches drivers before they arrive.€180 BarcelonaStreet drinking, swimwear off the beach and noise after 11pm carry the heaviest penalties in the 2026 civic ordinance.€3,000 AmsterdamThe rules that catch visitors are municipal, not national: the APV sets what you may do in De Wallen, and the Openbaar Ministerie publishes what the coded offences cost.€450 RomeRome prices behaviour rather than offences — where you sit, what you eat and what you drag over the steps — and national law caps a city ordinance at €500.€500 IstanbulThe serious rules here are criminal rather than administrative, so the consequence is prosecution rather than a fine — and several of the rest are warnings about what may be done to you.€500 MilanMilan fines the things a city runs on — the traffic zone, the ticket you did not stamp, the noise at night — and Italian law caps a municipal ordinance at €500.€400 PragueA Czech officer can settle at most 10,000 Kč in the street, so every larger figure on this page is a court matter rather than something you pay on the spot.CZK 5,000 VeniceVenice regulates the crowd rather than the crime: where you sit, what you carry, what you ride and whether you paid to come in for the day.€500

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What the colours mean

Colour marks how serious a rule is, never how much it costs. A large fine in a minor band and a small one in a serious band are both common.

high: Serious — criminal, or the top administrative band
medium: Ordinary — the band most tourist rules sit in
low: No penalty on you — a price, or information
warning: Prohibited, with no citable amount