Speed limits
This page shows a limit table and no fine ladder, because no fine ladder exists. Nothing in this corpus prices speeding by excess at any level of government, and the national schedule's own closed list of violations does not include speeding at all — which is evidence, not silence.
Before you look for a number
There is no speeding fine on this page, and that is the finding
The statutory table
Four road classes, two vehicle columns
The row descriptions below are the statute's own words, quoted rather than summarised — there is no fifth class and no separate motorway row.
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| Road class | Passenger cars and motorcycles | Motor trucks and buses |
|---|---|---|
| open country roads, no blind corners, not closely bordered by habitations | 80 km/h | 50 km/h |
| through streets or boulevards, clear of traffic, no blind corners, when so designated | 40 km/h | 30 km/h |
| city and municipal streets with light traffic, not designated through streets | 30 km/h | 30 km/h |
| crowded streets, blind-corner intersections, school zones, passing stationary vehicles, similar dangerous circumstances | 20 km/h | 20 km/h |
The table above states limits and nothing else. It carries no penalty column because the instrument attaches none to it — the amount a speed-limit violation attracts is not set by how far over the limit you were, and the evidence for that is the two findings below.
Check a limit
Which limit applied where you were
This returns a limit and a verdict. It does not return an amount, because there is no amount to return.
Where you were driving
Four classes, no fifth, and no separate motorway class. Each option is shortened to one line; the statute's own full sentence for every class is quoted in the table above.
Used only to compare against the limit above. Nothing on this page prices a speeding violation, because nothing in this market does.
The limit
Awaiting a speed- Statutory limit
- 80 km/h
- Your speed
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The limit above is what the statute sets for the road class and vehicle class you chose, and it stands whether or not you type anything. Enter the speed you were doing and this panel will compare the two; until then it states no verdict about you.
There is no fine ladder here, and that is not an omission on this page. No instrument this site could obtain prices speeding by how far over the limit you were: the Traffic Code sets one flat ceiling written in 1964 and never adjusted, which scales with nothing, and the 2014 national schedule does not price speeding at all — its own closed list of fifty-one violations does not include it.
Where a speed-limit violation is charged under national law it goes to the schedule's flat catch-all, or to reckless driving if the conduct is separately classified. A specific peso figure quoted for overspeeding is almost certainly a city ordinance rather than national law, and this site holds no city ordinance text.
The evidence
Why this is a finding and not a gap in our research
Two independent things point the same way, and the second is the stronger of them.
No speeding fine that scales with how fast you were going
Nothing in the Philippine instruments this site could obtain prices speeding by how far over the limit you were. The Land Transportation and Traffic Code sets a single flat ceiling, written in 1964 and never adjusted, which applies to a speed-limit violation alongside four other sections in the same sentence — and it scales with nothing at all. No per-kilometre or per-band construction appears anywhere in that Act. The excess ladder that prices speeding in Germany, the Netherlands or Britain simply does not exist here at national level.
The order's own closed list of 51 violations does not include speeding
The 2014 national schedule ends its licensing section with a flat catch-all and then enumerates what that catch-all covers — a closed list of fifty-one traffic violations, drafted broadly enough to reach “increasing speed when being overtaken” and “disregarding traffic signs”. Overspeeding is not among them, and no other limb of the schedule prices it. A closed list that omits an item is evidence about that item, not silence about it, which is why this appears here as a finding rather than as a gap.
The Code’s own ceiling for a speed-limit violation is ₱100 — and it is a ceiling, not a floor and not a fixed amount. It has stood unchanged since 1964, and it is shared with four other sections in one sentence, so it is not a speeding tariff in any useful sense.
Where a speed-limit violation is charged under national law it goes to the schedule’s flat catch-all — ₱1,000 — or to reckless driving where the conduct is separately classified.
Where the figures people quote come from
A city figure is not a national one
The only Philippine speeding amount this project could identify at all appears in no primary text it could open.
The one speeding amount we found is secondary-sourced, so it is not printed
A flat figure for overspeeding under the capital's own 2023 traffic code is reported consistently across independent motoring outlets. No primary text stating it was obtainable: the authority's own site returns a security challenge, one city ordinance PDF failed to fetch, and another downloaded as an unreadable image scan. A page about what you owe cannot print a figure on that basis, so this site does not.
The wider problem that sits behind this — that the capital sets its own fines and none of them could be obtained — is on the Metro Manila page.