Vehicle registration plates in the Philippines, commonly known as license plates (Filipino: plaka), are issued and regulated by the Land Transportation Office (LTO), a government agency under the Department of Transportation (DOTr).

New vehicles were issued a virtual identification consisting of a combination of alphanumeric symbols, which will make it easier for the LTO to release the permanent license plates once they were available.

[1] In August 2017, the Department of Transportation selected the winning bidder under the government's "Moving Forward Program" to reduce the backlog of 3.4 million plates spanning from July 2016 to December 2017.

FE-Schrift was chosen as the font to be used on license plates in 2018 as the characters are designed to be difficult to modify.

[3] Before 1981, the Philippines used the North American standard measuring 300 × 150 mm (12 × 6 inches) for cars and trucks.

[5][6] The first letter in the 2018 automobile plate number design represents the prefix, which denotes the region where the vehicle was registered.

[9] The first 3 digits of the plate will indicate the assigned number of the country, and international organizations that are based in the Philippines.

In 2024, the LTO released the new series of red plates for government vehicles which indicate the second letter as the region where they were registered (e.g. SNA for Metro Manila; SDA for Calabarzon).

The 2014 design, in production from 2014, used the numbering format LLL-DDDD for automobile vehicles, and LL-DDDDD for motorcycles.

In this format, the region in which the vehicle is registered is stamped on the bottom of the plate, thereby removing the need for registration area prefixes (except for motorcycles).

The new plate format series and design was originally scheduled for release on September or October 2013.

LTO issued the numbering format LLL-DDD for automobile vehicles, and LL-DDDD and DDDD-LL for motorcycles.

Color-coded year stickers appeared in 1982, based on the license plate's color scheme.

The first letter in the 1981 series of license plates represents the prefix, which denotes the following region where the vehicle was registered.