What does this offence cost — and what does it cost besides money?
The amount, the points, the driving ban and the deadline in one result. Every figure comes from the German fine catalogue, the Road Traffic Act or the Act on Administrative Offences, with its source. And where a rule does not exist at all, this site says so explicitly.
- Every figure sourced
- No advertising
- No lead form
Key figures
Three figures most people get wrong
Process
How it works
- Copy the details from your noticeYou enter what the paper says — the charged excess, the location, the amount. Nothing is estimated and nothing is extrapolated.
- The result appears immediatelyAmount, points, driving ban and deadline sit in one panel, in the order in which they actually hurt.
- A source under every statementBelow the result you see what it rests on — and where a widely believed rule does not exist in law, that is stated too.
A notice in the post?
Start with the deadline — it runs whether or not you think the amount is correct.
- Payment and deadlinesWhen does the deadline to object expire, when the payment deadline, and what does the notice add in fees and disbursements? The calculator shows both — and the rule that does not exist.
- SpeedingEnter the charged excess from your notice and choose whether it happened inside or outside a built-up area. The result shows the standard rate, the points and any driving ban — and whether the repeat rule applies.
- ObjectionAn objection is tied to a short deadline that starts when the notice is served — not on the date of the offence and not on the date printed on the notice.
Background
A German fine is rarely just an amount
Anyone opening a Bußgeldbescheid looks for the total first. The real question is further down the page: do points come with it, is a driving ban involved, and by when must you act? Bußgeldmeter shows the result in exactly that order — amount, points, ban, deadline.
The reason is simple. The amount is a one-off loss; the points are an account that runs for years; a driving ban changes daily life. And the deadline decides whether you can still do anything at all.
All four live in different instruments: the amounts and bans in the fine catalogue, the points in an annex to the driving-licence ordinance, the deadlines in the Act on Administrative Offences and the Road Traffic Act. This site brings them together and names the source of each.
Tools
The calculators and tables
Four calculators, one complete catalogue, and the topics behind them.
Speeding
Enter the charged excess from your notice and choose whether it happened inside or outside a built-up area. The result shows the standard rate, the points and any driving ban — and whether the repeat rule applies.
Alcohol and ‰
The established reading decides whether this is an administrative offence or a crime. The calculator places it, escalates on earlier entries, and applies the zero-alcohol rule for new drivers.
Points calculator
List your register entries and the calculator shows your active points on the reference date, the escalation rung and the expiry of each entry — with the two clocks kept strictly apart.
Payment and deadlines
When does the deadline to object expire, when the payment deadline, and what does the notice add in fees and disbursements? The calculator shows both — and the rule that does not exist.
Fine catalogue
Every offence covered, by category, each with its standard rate, points, driving ban and catalogue number. Not one figure on these pages is typed by hand.
Points in Flensburg
The German points system works in ranges, not in single trigger numbers — and with two periods that start from different events.
Probationary licence
During the probationary period what counts is not only how many offences but how each is classified, as an A or a B offence. Consequences run over three stages — and a missed deadline skips them.
Objection
An objection is tied to a short deadline that starts when the notice is served — not on the date of the offence and not on the date printed on the notice.
Research
What does not exist
The four most common beliefs about German traffic fines are not mistakes about numbers. They are beliefs in rules that do not exist. Because a missing rule appears in no table, it appears here.
There is no early-payment discount
OWiG (full text) · § 2(5) BKatV
There is no calendar-based winter-tyre rule
§ 2(3a) StVO
Below the register threshold, no points arise
§ 28(3) no. 3a StVG
Driving uninsured is not an administrative offence
§ 6(1) PflVG
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Calculator
Speeding
Your entries
Measurement toleranceEnter the CHARGED excess speed from your notice. German federal law contains no separate tolerance deduction of its own: the measuring authority already subtracts the permitted error margin beforehand, and the fine-catalogue tables apply to the value that results. This tool therefore deducts nothing and states no tolerance figure.
Result
- 115 €Amount
- 1Points
- noDriving ban
Result
- 115 €Amount
- 1Points
- noDriving ban
What this means
- This offence carries 1 point in the German driver register (Fahreignungsregister, "Flensburg").
Overview
Bußgeldmeter
Bußgeldmeter shows what a German traffic offence actually costs — the amount, the points, the driving ban and the deadline, with a source for every figure.