Pico y Placa Pereira on 19/10/2026: These cars and motorcycles are affected

TVS News AI, editorially supervised, presents Pico y Placa Pereira on 19/10/2026: These cars and motorcycles are affected.

TVS News AI editorially supervised presents Pico y Placa Pereira on 19/10/2026: These cars and motorcycles are affected.

If you're out and about in Pereira on Monday, October 19, 2026, it's worth taking a look at your license plate before turning the key. The traffic authorities of the capital of the Department of Risaralda continue the Pico y Placa rule on that day — and it restricts traffic for 14 hours straight. This makes Pereira one of the Colombian cities that use this measure to keep rush-hour traffic and air quality under control.

Specifically, this means for you: If the last digit of your car license plate is a 0 or 1, the vehicle is better off staying put on October 19. For motorcycles, the same restriction applies to all machines whose license plate begins with 0 or 1. The city administration wants to use this rotation to ensure that only part of the fleet is on the roads at any one time.

Which ending digits stay off the road on October 19, 2026 in Pereira

The authorities in Pereira set the rotation at the beginning of the year and did not change it in the second half of 2026. For Monday, October 19, according to the daily newspaper La Patria: Passenger cars with ending digit 0 or 1 and motorcycles with starting digit 0 or 1 stay off the road. According to the newspaper, the rule applies to both private and official vehicles.

When exactly are you not allowed to drive?

Most sources — including picoyplacahoy.net and La Patria — cite a continuous ban from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM. That is exactly the 14 hours that El Tiempo also points out in its report. The platform picoplaca.com.co is an exception: it lists the Pico y Placa in two blocks, namely from 6:00 to 10:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00. If you want to play it safe, plan your trips so that you don't even set off with the stated ending digits between 6:00 and 20:00.

What does a violation cost?

Those who do not comply with the rule risk, according to picoplaca.com.co, a fine of 52.29 Unidades de Valor Básico (UVB). That corresponds to around 633,111 Colombian pesos in 2026. The basis is provided by Article 131 of Law 769 from 2002, which regulates all of Colombia's road traffic.

Pereira in context: Why the measure stays

The Pico y Placa rule has been part of everyday life in Pereira for years. The city in the Colombian Coffee Triangle struggles, like many medium-sized metropolises in the country, with growing vehicle density — Estrella Digital explicitly speaks in this context of increasing traffic density that is to be managed with measures like today's. According to picoyplacahoy.net, the rotation remains stable beyond the end of 2026. Unlike other major Colombian cities that suspend their ban during the December festivities, the rule in Pereira applies year-round. On national holidays, however, the ban is suspended according to picoplaca.com.co — two pieces of information that don't necessarily contradict each other, because they refer to different time periods.

If you live in Pereira or visit the city on October 19, it's worth taking a quick look at your license plate before setting off.