Abergavenny driving test centre
Wales · Station Road, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire · NP7 5HT
Abergavenny at a glance
- Pass rate
- 64.2%
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Average wait
- 8.2 weeks
- June 2026
- Tests a year
- 5,924
- April 2025 to March 2026
- Slots still free
- 8.6%
- Of the 24-week booking window
How Abergavenny compares
Abergavenny passes 64.2% of car tests, which is 14.1 points above the 50.1% national average. The typical wait between booking and testing is 8.2 weeks, 3.9 weeks shorter than the national average of 12.1 weeks. It conducted 5,924 car tests in April 2025 to March 2026. In the most recent month DVSA has published, March 2026, the rate was 65.1% — a single month, so expect it to bounce around the annual figure.
Trends at Abergavenny
Pass rate
Mar 2026: 65.1%
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| Month | Pass rate |
|---|---|
| 65.1% | |
| 64.5% | |
| 65.5% | |
| 65.3% | |
| 63.1% | |
| 63.9% | |
| 64.6% | |
| 63.9% | |
| 64.7% | |
| 65.1% | |
| 63.9% | |
| 60.8% |
Waiting time
Jun 2026: 8.2w
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| Month | Average wait |
|---|---|
| 8.2 weeks | |
| 8.1 weeks | |
| 11.9 weeks | |
| 11 weeks | |
| 14.1 weeks | |
| 13.6 weeks | |
| 10 weeks | |
| 12.1 weeks | |
| 9.4 weeks | |
| 9.7 weeks | |
| 9.9 weeks | |
| 9.9 weeks |
Tests conducted each month
Mar 2026: 481
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| Month | Tests conducted |
|---|---|
| 481 | |
| 454 | |
| 470 | |
| 398 | |
| 425 | |
| 554 | |
| 534 | |
| 449 | |
| 635 | |
| 584 | |
| 471 | |
| 469 |
Year by year
| Year | Tests | Passes | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 5,924 | 3,805 | 64.2% |
| 2024-25 | 4,650 | 2,841 | 61.1% |
| 2023-24 | 5,678 | 3,427 | 60.4% |
| 2022-23 | 4,941 | 2,999 | 60.7% |
| 2021-22 | 5,226 | 3,157 | 60.4% |
| 2020-21 | 1,703 | 1,072 | 62.9% |
| 2019-20 | 3,546 | 1,997 | 56.3% |
| 2018-19 | 3,643 | 2,089 | 57.3% |
| 2017-18 | 3,907 | 2,282 | 58.4% |
| 2016-17 | 4,133 | 2,371 | 57.4% |
Where it is
Nearby test centres
There is no catchment area for the practical test — you can book at any of these instead.
- Monmouth
20 km away
51% pass · 10.9 weeks wait
- Merthyr Tydfil
26 km away
51.2% pass · 7.7 weeks wait
- Newport (Gwent)
27 km away
48.9% pass · 7.3 weeks wait
- Newport (Isle of Wight)
27 km away
54.1% pass · 6.6 weeks wait
- Brecon
29 km away
58.7% pass · 10.6 weeks wait
- Cardiff (Llanishen)
35 km away
46.5% pass · 10.7 weeks wait
Everything on this page describes Abergavenny driving test centre. Figures come from the DVSA statistical data sets DRT122A and DRT122F, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Pass rates run to March 2026 and waiting times to June 2026. This page was last updated .
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