Portugal
Portugal’s current sequence uses two letters, two digits and two letters. The 2020 redesign removed the former yellow month/year field and added no punctuation between groups.
The ordinary example follows AA 00 AA.
Modern registrations carry no district code; the arrangement gives a broad issue era.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is P.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour and suffixes can completely change a plate's meaning.
The current ordinary AA 00 AA registration.
Older valid plates can retain the yellow month/year field.
Diplomatic vehicles use protected letter families.
Trailers use district-associated prefixes in a separate series.
A reconstructed current plate and concise system timeline, separated from the more extensively documented country archives.
Portugal’s current sequence uses two letters, two digits and two letters. The 2020 redesign removed the former yellow month/year field and added no punctuation between groups.
The AA 00 AA system establishes the ordinary plate described above.
Modern registrations carry no district code; the arrangement gives a broad issue era.
Special status, vehicle class or use can change the colour, prefix, suffix or even the entire registration logic.
Older valid plates can retain the yellow month/year field.
Diplomatic vehicles use protected letter families.
Trailers use district-associated prefixes in a separate series.
Portugal’s current sequence uses two letters, two digits and two letters. The 2020 redesign removed the former yellow month/year field and added no punctuation between groups.
The ordinary example follows AA 00 AA.
Modern registrations carry no district code; the arrangement gives a broad issue era.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is P.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour, prefix, dimensions or a control field can signal a different legal registration class.
The current ordinary AA 00 AA registration.
Older valid plates can retain the yellow month/year field.
Diplomatic vehicles use protected letter families.
Trailers use district-associated prefixes in a separate series.
Search the ordinary AA 00 AA grammar and the principal special registrations represented in this guide.
Modern registrations carry no district code; the arrangement gives a broad issue era.
The P identifier distinguishes the country in international traffic.
Special-series colours and codes are legal status markers rather than decorative alternatives.