Mont Blanc tunnel: in 2023 it will be closed for more than 3 months Mont Blanc tunnel: it will be closed for more than 3 months in 2023

Since 1965, the Mont Blanc Tunnel connects Italy and France between the cities of Courmayeurin the Aosta Valley, e Chamonix, in Haute-Savoie. At the time of the inauguration, his 11.6km allowed it to become the longest road tunnel in the world, whereas today it is “only” in tenth place, also surpassed by the Gotthard tunnel and the Fréjus tunnel, both opened in 1980. Since an average of approximately 5,000 vehicles, with obviously higher peaks during the summer months and during the winter holidays. let’s see what they are Mont Blanc Tunnel prices and the disturbances to come.

Update March 20, 2023 with the announcement of the closure of the Mont Blanc Tunnel for more than 3 months in the fall of 2023.

MONT BLANC TUNNEL: CLOSED FOR 3 MONTHS IN AUTUMN 2023

For the execution of the vault restoration work, the Mont Blanc Tunnel will remain closed from September 4 to December 18, 2023. This was communicated by the EEIG, the structure management group between Italy and France. In the fall, the first test site will be set up which will make it possible to “determine the best operating methodology”, with a view to the redevelopment program.

The fall closing period was chosen to low vehicle traffic. During the 15 weeks of work, it is planned to dismantle all the security systems of the vault, which cannot be dismantled and reassembled every day and therefore a total closure to traffic. The first test site will operate on a 600 meter tunnel section. To carry out the intervention, planned between 2023 and 2024, 50 million euros will be invested.

MONT BLANC TUNNEL: RATES 2023

The passing of Mont Blanc Gallery it is not free but it is subject to the payment of a ringwhich is calculated on the basis of classification of vehicles. Different forms of tolls are envisaged (single, round trip, subscription, package) with prices regulated by an international agreement between Italy and France, drawn up and revised at the January 1 of each year by the intergovernmental commission. Curiously, the amount in the two countries is not the same: the Mont Blanc Tunnel prices they are slightly the lowest in France because in the country beyond the Alps the VAT is 20%, while in Italy it is 22%.

Here they are prices in force on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel from January 1, 2023 (French rates in parentheses). But first a refresher on how to drive in the tunnel.

• Class 5 – motorcycle, motorcycle with sidecar, motorcycle with trailer:

One way: 34.60 euros (34.10)
Round trip (within 7 days): 43.50 euros (42.80)
10-pass subscription (within 2 years): 106.70 euros (106.90)
20-pass subscription (within 2 years): 152.20 euros (149.70)
Package (1 month, up to 50 passages, i.e. 25 round trips): 261.20 euros (256.50).

• Class 1 – vehicles with two or more axles whose height, measured at the front axle, is less than 1.30 meters and whose total height is less than or equal to 2 meters (cars are included, even with small trailers):

One way: 52.30 euros (51.50)
Round trip (within 7 days): 65.30 euros (64.20)
10-pass subscription (within 2 years): 163.30 euros (160.60)
20-pass subscription (within 2 years): 228.60 euros (224.80)
Package (1 month, up to 50 passages, i.e. 25 round trips): 261.20 euros (256.50).

• Class 2 – vehicles with two or more axles with an overall height greater than 2 meters and less than or equal to 3 meters (includes cars with caravans, vans and small motorhomes):

One way: 69.30 euros (68.10)
Round trip (within 7 days): 87.10 euros (85.60)
10-pass subscription (within 2 years): 217.60 euros (214.10)
20-pass subscription (within 2 years): 304.70 euros (299.70).

• Class 3 – two-axle vehicles with an overall height exceeding 3 meters (buses and large motorhomes are included):

One way: 190 euros (186.90)
Round trip (within 15 days): 295.80 euros (290.10).

• Class 4 – vehicles with three or more axles whose overall height exceeds 3 meters (includes touring coaches, trucks and tugs):

One way: 381.90 euros (375.60)
Round trip (within 15 days): 599.80 euros (590.00).

• Class D – exceptional transport category A (includes, for example, trucks equipped with refrigerated cells and vehicles that tow others):

One way: 396.90 euros (390.60).

• Exceptional convoys class E – category B (requires the occupation of the entire roadway):

One way: 1,052.30 euros (1,035.10).

HOW TO PAY FOR THE MONT BLANC TUNNEL

Usually the payment of Mont Blanc Tunnel Toll takes place directly at passing time. It can be made in cash (in euros), with bank credit cards and with petrol or service cards. Only the subscriptions for 10 and 20 passages they can be bought also in presalewithout necessarily making the first passage, by going on foot to a toll booth located in one of the two squares in front of the entrances and contacting the toll collection staff.

Also for me heavy vehicles are available post-billed subscriptions (interoperable Mont Blanc-Fréjus card which allows each passage to be counted at 50% of the return fare) which can be purchased from customer service by signing the corresponding contract. Learn more here.

MONT-BLANC TUNNEL: INTERRUPTIONS 2023

Periodically the traffic in the Mont Blanc Tunnel is interrupted to allow the performance of safety exercises or the implementation of Maintenance works. These interruptions are normally scheduled at night, and are communicated in advance. Other maintenance activities which do not require complete closure of the tunnel are also carried out at night under the alternate one-way. By clicking on each of the following links are available:

• Scheduled traffic interruptions for maintenance work and safety exercises from January to March 2023;
• Scheduled traffic interruptions for maintenance work and safety exercises from April to August 2023;
• 2023 calendar of traffic bans for heavy goods vehicles in Italy and France.