30/06/2025
To know when your car registration is due for renewal, look at these digits on your license plate number.
1) The last digit corresponds to the month you need to have your registration renewed.
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This is the easy part—the numbers 1 to 0 simply correspond to the months January to October. If your plate number ends in 4, as in our Civic test unit above (do check out our review, while you’re at it), you should renew its registration in April.
1 – January
2 – February
3 – March
4 – April
5 – May
6 – June
7 – July
8 – August
9 – September
0 – October
2) The second to the last digit determines the week you need to have your registration renewed.
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Look at the digit immediately to the left of the last one. This tells you the exact week you should be renewing your car registration.
1, 2, 3 – 1st to 7th of the month (first week)
4, 5, 6 – 8th to 14th of the month (second week)
7, 8 – 15th to 21st of the month (third week)
9, 0 – 22nd to the last day of the month (fourth week)
So again, in the above example, because the license plate number is DBF 3884, you can renew the registration on any working day from April 15th to 21st. Emphasis on working day, so if your renewal days include a long weekend, you have a shorter period of time to get things done.
