Maryland (MD) — graduated driver licensing: night, passenger and solo-driving rules
16, 6 months
The earliest age your teen may drive without an adult in the car — the intermediate (provisional) licence age. Night-time and passenger limits still apply until the points shown below. From the IIHS graduated-licensing table row quoted on the record page.
For Maryland (MD), intermediate minimum age is 16, 6 months; nighttime restriction is midnight-5 a.m; passenger restriction is no passengers younger than 18 secondary enforcement; night restriction lifted is age 18; passenger restriction lifted is licensed for 5 months or age 18, whichever occurs first (min. age: 16, 11 mos.), verified against its source on 2026-09-15.
- State
- MD verified
- State name
- Maryland our reading
- Learner minimum age
- 15, 9 months verified
- Mandatory holding period
- 9 months verified
- Supervised driving hours
- 60 hours, 10 of which must be at night verified
- Intermediate minimum age
- 16, 6 months verified
- Nighttime restriction
- midnight-5 a.m. verified
- Passenger restriction
- no passengers younger than 18 secondary enforcement
- Night restriction lifted
- age 18 verified
- Passenger restriction lifted
- licensed for 5 months or age 18, whichever occurs first (min. age: 16, 11 mos.) verified
- Exceptions and footnotes
- Footnote 27: In Maryland, driver education is required regardless of applicant age. | Footnote 28: In Maryland, license applicants who are 19 years old (or 18 with a high school diploma) but younger than 25 must hold a learner's permit for three months before taking the road test. All applicants 25 and older must hold the permit for 45 days. | Footnote 29: In Maryland, 60 supervised driving hours are required for all applicants younger than 25. Applicants age 25 and older are requrired to drive for fourteen supervised hours. | Footnote 30: In Maryland, the night and passenger restrictions only apply to intermediate license holders younger than 18. our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
MD | 15, 9 months Footnote 27 | 9 months Footnote 28 | 60 hours, 10 of which must be at night Footnote 29 | 16, 6 months | midnight-5 a.m. Footnote 30 | no passengers younger than 18 Footnote 30 secondary enforcement | age 18 | licensed for 5 months or age 18, whichever occurs first (min. age: 16, 11 mos.)
— iihs.org, retrieved 2026-09-02
Source
- iihs.orghttps://www.iihs.org/topics/teenagers/graduated-licensing-laws-table