Auto Market

The 19th largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026

The used-car market in Latvia

As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Latvia is EUR 7,750, at a median odometer reading of 237,000 km, measured across 29,191 live adverts.

Median asking price
EUR 7,75022nd dearest of 23 markets
Median odometer
237,000 km
Live adverts
29,19119th largest market here
Powertrains published
6

Prices are rounded to the nearest EUR 250 and mileage to 1,000 km, and every figure is a median over live adverts — not over sales.

What is on the market

Every powertrain with enough adverts in Latvia to publish, largest first. Groups too small to publish are not shown; how the thresholds work. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Latvia, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.

PowertrainAdvertsShareMedian price
Diesel 19,572 67.1% EUR 7,000
Petrol 6,831 23.4% EUR 8,750
Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown 1,369 4.7% EUR 22,750
Electric (BEV) 770 2.6% EUR 27,000
LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) 604 2.1% EUR 3,500
Petrol full hybrid (non plug-in) 20–30 0.1% EUR 33,000

Bringing a car into Latvia

What a country charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is usually the largest term in a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date it was last checked. Where we have not verified one, this page says so instead of printing a number.

Registration tax

EUR 110 Verified

Latvia charges a flat EUR 110 Natural Resources Tax on a vehicle registered permanently in Latvia for the first time, in force since 1 January 2024. It reads as a country with no registration tax and has not been one for two years.

permanently for the first time in Latvia shall be EUR 110 Latvijas Vēstnesis (official publisher) — Natural Resources Tax Law — official English translation. Retrieved 6 September 2026; last checked 6 September 2026.

VAT

21% Verified

Standard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.

Read from this record in the source database, shown exactly as it was returned:

LV STANDARD DEFAULT 21.0 2026-07-01+02:00 <p>Section 41, Paragraph 1, Clause 1 of the <a href="https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/253451-value-added-tax-law" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Law</a>.</p> European Commission, DG TAXUD — Taxes in Europe Database (TEDB). Retrieved 6 September 2026; last checked 6 September 2026.

Tolls and road charges

No general charge Verified

No general road charge applies to a passenger car. The vignette is for freight vehicles above 3,000 kg. Jūrmala charges a municipal entry fee that does include cars.

kuru pilna masa ir lielāka par 3000 kilogramiem Likumi.lv, Latvijas Vēstnesis — Autoceļu lietošanas nodevas likums. Retrieved 6 September 2026; last checked 6 September 2026.

The limits below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, old enough that no age-based exemption changes the answer. A newer car can be answered differently, and the records above say on what.

Where these numbers come from

Latvia is one of 23 national markets this service measures daily from public marketplace listings. The published figures are aggregates: a median needs at least 20 adverts behind it, a quartile at least 50, and counts below 500 are published as a band rather than exactly. No advert, seller or individual price is ever published. The full method is here.