---
id: "pt_vehicle_plate"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
country: ["PT"]
langs: ["pt"]
quality: 70
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/pt_vehicle_plate"
---

# Portuguese vehicle registration plate (`pt_vehicle_plate`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Registration number on Portuguese vehicle plates: three pairs of characters. Plates issued since March 2020 have letters, digits and letters (AA 00 AA) without separators; earlier series used 00-AA-00 (from 2005), 00-00-AA (from 1992) and AA-00-00 (from 1937). The regexp accepts all four, with or without hyphens.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Portugal (PT)
- Languages: Portuguese (pt)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}|[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}|[0-9]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[A-Z]{2}|[A-Z]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2}[- ]?[0-9]{2})$
```

## Examples

- `AB-12-34-CD` (invalid example) — Four pairs

## Supported by tools

- `validatorjs`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal>

## Quality

Score 70/100. Missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/pt_vehicle_plate.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/PT/transport/pt_vehicle_plate.yaml>