Hull 2026: No Clean Air Zone and No Charge, Just Keep Left
Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom · CAZ
Hull has no Clean Air Zone: the GOV.UK charging service covers Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Tyneside only. Drive on the left; towns run at 30 mph.
Hull is not on the GOV.UK list of charging Clean Air Zones, so no car, van or foreign-registered vehicle pays a daily fee to drive in. The adjustments for visitors are the usual British ones: keep left, take roundabouts clockwise and hold 30 mph on lit town streets. Park centrally and walk the cobbled Old Town, the marina and The Deep.
This page covers driving around Hull. For the zone status in detail, see the Hull CAZ page.
Keep left, park and walk
There is no Clean Air Zone and no charge. Drive on the left; the limit is 30 mph (48 km/h) where there are street lights, unless signs say otherwise. In England the drink-drive limit is 80 mg per 100 ml of blood. Park in a central garage and walk the Old Town, with Wilberforce House, the marina, the Fruit Market quarter and The Deep.
When the car helps
Keep it for the East Yorkshire coast, the Wolds, the Humber Bridge (the world’s longest single-span suspension bridge when it opened in 1981) and nearby Beverley.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. The GOV.UK clean air zone service lists Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Tyneside (Newcastle and Gateshead). Hull is not among them, so no car, van or foreign-registered vehicle pays a daily charge to enter the city.
On the left, as throughout the UK, with roundabouts taken clockwise. Hire cars are right-hand drive. The limit on lit town streets is 30 mph unless signs show otherwise.
80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood, or 35 micrograms per 100 ml of breath. Scotland is stricter, so the limit changes if your trip continues north.
Hull was the 2017 UK City of Culture. The cobbled Old Town holds free museums including Wilberforce House, birthplace of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce; the marina, the Fruit Market quarter and The Deep aquarium are a short walk away. Look out for the cream telephone boxes of the city's own phone network.
Not for the compact centre. A car helps for the East Yorkshire coast, the Wolds, the Humber Bridge and nearby Beverley.
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