What does a UAE traffic fine actually cost — including the part nobody quotes
The fine is one number. The black points and the impound period are two more, and they are what turn a bad morning into a suspended licence. This site prints all three together, with the schedule row each one comes from.
- Federal schedule, cited row by row
- Points and impound with every fine
- No account, no lookup, nothing stored
The numbers
Three numbers behind every violation
- 24Black-point limitThe total that turns a run of violations into a traffic precedent, counted over a fixed window from the first one in it.
- AED 3,000Impound-release ceilingThe ceiling is a real figure; what it covers is not settled. Both readings are worked out on the impound page.
- 30Days to payThe window the corpus states — together with a real doubt about whether the article supplying it reaches this schedule at all.
What to do
How to check the fines on your own vehicle
This site does not look your fines up — it has no connection to any authority and asks for no identifier. These are the three official routes, and what each one needs from you.
- By plate numberThe route most drivers reach for: plate code, plate number and the emirate of registration, on the issuing authority's own portal.
- By Emirates IDReturns fines attached to you as a driver rather than to one vehicle — the one that catches a fine issued while you were driving somebody else's car.
- By traffic file numberThe number on your UAE licence file. It is the route a fleet or a company vehicle is usually looked up under.
Got a violation notice?
Three things decide what happens next, and they are decided by different articles of different instruments. Start with whichever one you can answer.
- Speeding fine calculatorEnter the excess your notice states and read the rung it falls on.
- Black points and precedent calculatorPut your point total against the limit and see which precedent tier applies.
- Impound release cost calculatorWork out the daily buy-back cost — under both readings of the ceiling.
Tools
The tools on this site
Each one runs the federal schedule or the black-point articles over what you enter, and shows the row it applied. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Speeding fine calculator
Enter the excess over the posted limit exactly as it appears on your notice. Nothing is deducted from it: the figure often quoted as a "tolerance" is a device-accuracy specification, not a driver's buffer, and this page explains why below the tool.
Black points and precedent calculator
Black points run on two clocks that are easy to confuse — one for counting towards the limit, one for deletion — and reaching the limit triggers a tiered consequence that escalates with each precedent. This works all three out against the articles that set them.
Impound release cost calculator
A vehicle under impound can be released by paying a daily amount, up to a ceiling. What that ceiling applies to is genuinely unresolved in the article's own wording, so this tool computes both readings side by side and does not pick one.
UAE violation catalogue
The federal schedule, rendered from the payload row by row. Each entry carries its annex row number so you can match it against your own notice, and each figure carries the instrument and effective period it was read from.
Black points in the UAE
The points are the part of a violation notice that compounds. This page sets out the cumulative limit, the window it is measured over, the two clocks that decide when points count and when they are deleted, and what happens each time the limit is reached.
Traffic fine discounts
Discount rounds are announced from time to time and they are real while they run. What this page will not do is present them as a standing statutory right: the only discount provision in the corpus is scoped to an instrument that was repealed, and that is stated here plainly.
Emirates
By emirate
The schedule is federal, so the fine for a violation does not change at an emirate border. What changes is who issued the notice, where you pay it and which local discount rounds have run — which is what these four pages are for.
Traffic fines in Dubai
The amounts are federal and do not change at the emirate border. What is local is the issuing authority, the payment channel and any discount round announced here — and that is what this page is about.
Traffic fines in Abu Dhabi
Same federal schedule, different local layer. This page covers who issues a notice in Abu Dhabi, how it is paid, and where the emirate's own arrangements sit alongside the federal figures.
Traffic fines in Sharjah
The federal schedule applies unchanged in Sharjah. This page sets out the local layer — the issuing authority, the payment route, and what to do about a fine attached to a vehicle registered in another emirate.
Traffic fines in the Northern Emirates
Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah apply the same federal schedule as the rest of the country. What differs between them is administrative, and this page keeps the four together rather than splitting near-identical pages apart.
The open questions
What the law does not settle
Some questions a reader will reasonably ask have no answer in the instruments themselves. Those are findings, not gaps: each one below is stated with the article it rests on, and where two readings are genuinely open this site prints both instead of picking one.
There is no standing early-payment discount in this schedule
The only discount authority found in this corpus — MR 130/1997 art. 190bis, up to 50% off violations "الواردة بالقرار الوزاري رقم (127) لسنة 2008م" — is textually scoped to Ministerial Resolution 127/2008, the instrument MR 178/2017's own art. 16 repeals. It is not derivable that the discount extends to MR 178's schedule, which replaced 127/2008 without art. 190bis being amended to say so.
MR 130/1997 art. 190 مكرر
اللائحة التنفيذية للقانون الاتحادي في شأن السير والمرور
يجوز لسلطة الترخيص تخفيض الغرامة المقررة على المخالفات الواردة بالقرار الوزاري رقم (127) لسنة 2008م المشار إليه بما لا يجاوز 50% من قيمتها
No federal traffic-fine appeal route exists yet
Federal Decree-Law 14/2024 art. 45 delegates the entire administrative-penalty regime, including its grievance/objection mechanism ("آلية التظلم منها"), to a not-yet-issued Cabinet resolution. No federal fine-appeal deadline exists to state today; the only appeal/grievance rights found in the corpus (decree-law art. 27(5); MR 130's own unnumbered technical-inspection grievance article) are a 10-day right against a vehicle technical-inspection result, decided finally by the Licensing Authority — not against a traffic fine.
Federal Decree-Law 14/2024 art. 45
مرسوم بقانون اتحادي بشأن تنظيم السير والمرور
والجهات التي تتولى فرض الجزاءات الإدارية، وآلية التظلم منها، والجهة المعنية بتحصيل الغرامات الإدارية
There is no numeric blood-alcohol limit to calculate against
No blood-alcohol or breath-alcohol threshold appears anywhere in the four instrument corpora searched for this site. The payload behind these pages carries no such schedule at all, and that omission is deliberate rather than pending: a threshold table would be scaffolding around a number the corpus does not contain.
Alcohol at the wheel is priced on two tracks instead. Administratively, through a schedule row whose fine the annex states as court-determined. Criminally, through the decree-law article that sets a fine range with court discretion and a suspension that escalates by offence count. Neither track produces a single number a calculator could return, which is why this site builds no blood-alcohol tool and does not imply one could exist.
Federal Decree-Law 14/2024 art. 35(1)
مرسوم بقانون اتحادي بشأن تنظيم السير والمرور
الغرامة التي لا تقل عن (20,000) عشرين ألف درهم
The speed "tolerance" is a device specification, not a driver's buffer
Cabinet Resolution 83/2022 art. 14(1)(د)/(2)(ج) sets a maximum permissible error for the speed-measurement device (3 km/h, or 3% for speeds exceeding 100 km/h) — a metrology/device-accuracy spec, not a driver's tolerance. No instrument in the searched corpus provides for any deduction from a driver's recorded speed before the tariff applies.
Cabinet Resolution 83/2022 art. 14(1)(د)
اللائحة الفنية لأجهزة قياس سرعة المركبات (الرادار)
ألا تتجاوز نسبة الخطأ الأقصى المسموح به في قياس السرعة 3 كم/ساعة أو 3% للسرعات التي تتجاوز 100 كم/ ساعة
Questions
Common questions
Calculator
Speeding fine calculator
What happened
Why nothing is deductedCabinet Resolution 83/2022 art. 14(1)(د)/(2)(ج) sets a maximum permissible error for the speed-measurement device (3 km/h, or 3% for speeds exceeding 100 km/h) — a metrology/device-accuracy spec, not a driver's tolerance. No instrument in the searched corpus provides for any deduction from a driver's recorded speed before the tariff applies.
Result
Fine only- AED 600Fine
- —Black pointsnot stated
- —Vehicle impoundnot stated
- Annex row 39 of the federal schedule applies: a fine of AED 600.
- Annex row 39 states no black-point figure at all. That is a blank cell in the schedule, which is not the same thing as zero points.
- Annex row 39 states no impound period. Again a blank cell, not an impound of zero days.
Source: MR 178/2017 annex row 39 · 2023-05-02 — 2027-08-07
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Overview
UAE traffic fines, black points and impound costs
FineCheck UAE sets out what a traffic violation costs in the Emirates — the fine, the black points and the impound period — with the instrument and the schedule row printed under every figure.