A Guide to When Your Vehicle should be Registered

In the Philippines, it is required to have your vehicle registered with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) annually. Here is a guide to know when you should take time to have your registration renewed.

It's all in the plate. One look at your plate number will tell you the proper time to renew them. Firstly take a look at the last digit which corresponds to the month of registration:

    1- January

    2 - February

    3 - March

    4 - April

    5 - May

    6 - June

    7 - July

    8 - August

    9 - September

    0 - October

Old Plates on Top and New Plates Below

The weekly deadline can be determined based on the middle digit:

    1 / 2 / 3 - Day 1-7

    4 / 5 / 6 - Day 8-14

    7 / 8 / 9 - Day 15-21

    9 / 0 - Day 29-31

So given the sample provided above, the owner of the vehicle with the plate number YFE 959 should have their car registration renewed between the 8th to 14th (middle digit is 5) of September (last digit is 9).

Given the LTO's new plates, it is still uncertain how registration of your car will proceed in the upcoming year. Possibly the same process will be carried over to the next. Let us wait and see.