Traffic Fine Lookup

How much is a speeding ticket in Hawaii?

each local court sets the amount · 2 tiers · every row cited · sources retrieved 2026-07-17

set by the local courtcourt-set

15 mph over the limit, first offense, not in a school zone or construction area — the full arithmetic is on this page.

Hawaii has no statewide fine amount for ordinary speeding: each local court sets its own schedule. What IS uniform statewide — the caps, the mandatory add-ons, the points — is decomposed on this page, and where only your court can name the final figure, the page says so instead of inventing one. For 15 mph over the limit, the honest answer is set by the local court — the page decomposes what is knowable statewide instead of inventing a total. What raises it: school zone or construction area (posted limits under hrs 291c-104); photo enforcement (automated speed enforcement systems). Excessive speeding — a criminal charge, outside a fine table's scope, noted here as a fact. Points: Hawaii has no demerit-point system for speeding. The current licensing law contains no point schedule, and the State's official Driver's Manual (2023 edition, searched in full) never mentions one; license sanctions attach to specific offenses instead — excessive speeding itself carries a 30-day suspension on a first conviction. Every row on this page carries its citation — 8 primary sources (statute text, court fine schedules, DMV publications), each with a retrieval date, plus the local-variation caveat that applies in Hawaii. This is a reference to what the law and the schedules print; it is not legal advice.

How Hawaii sets it Hawaii's speeding statute prints no dollar amount for ordinary speeding: the amount on the ticket is a 'monetary assessment' from a schedule that each circuit's district court prescribes for itself under HRS 291D-9 — expressly 'notwithstanding' the traffic code's default fine ceilings. What IS statewide: a $7 driver-education assessment on every moving violation, a $10 neurotrauma surcharge when the speed was more than 10 over, an exact $250 fine for school-zone and construction-area speeding, and a criminal 'excessive speeding' charge at 30+ over or 80+ mph.

The fine, tier by tier

Speeding fines in Hawaii by speed over the limit. “Base fine” is what the statute or schedule names; “what you actually owe” includes the mandatory add-ons where state law fixes them.
Speed over the limit Base fine What you actually owe Citation
1-10 mph over the limit set by the local court court-set set by the local court court-set HRS §291C-102(a); HRS §291D-9(b)

The assessment comes from the district court schedule for the circuit where the ticket issued; no statewide amount is published. The statewide $7 driver-education assessment attaches on top.
11-29 mph over the limit (below 80 mph) set by the local court court-set set by the local court court-set HRS §291C-102(a), (b); HRS §291D-9(b)

Same court-set assessment, plus the mandatory $10 neurotrauma surcharge for exceeding the limit by more than 10. The table ends at 29 over because 30+ over is charged as excessive speeding, a crime (see criminal thresholds) — and on high-limit roads the 80-mph absolute trigger can convert a ticket inside this row too (e.g., 21 over a 60 limit is 81 mph).

The mandatory add-ons

These attach on top of whatever fine the court sets:

Add-on How it is computed Citation
Driver education assessment $7 flat on every finding that a vehicle-law violation occurred (parking, registration, and pedestrian offenses excepted) — in addition to any fine and regardless of whether a fine is suspended HRS §286G-3(a), (c)
Neurotrauma special fund surcharge $10 flat when the maximum speed limit is exceeded by more than 10 mph HRS §291C-102(b)

Worked example: 15 mph over the limit, first offense, not in a school zone or construction area

Line Amount Citation
Neurotrauma surcharge (speed more than 10 over) $10 HRS §291C-102(b)
Driver education assessment $7 HRS §286G-3(a)
Where it lands set by the local court court-set

There is no statewide number to print for the assessment itself: HRS 291D-9(b) directs the district court of each circuit to prescribe its own schedule of monetary assessments, and the amount entered on the notice of infraction must match that court's schedule. The two statewide add-ons shown ($10 + $7 = $17) stack on whatever the circuit's schedule sets. The statute's outer bound: the assessment may not exceed the maximum fine in the law defining the infraction (HRS 291D-9(a)), and the traffic code's default ceiling for a first violation is $250 (HRS 291C-161(b)).

What raises it

License points

Hawaii has no demerit-point system for speeding. The current licensing law contains no point schedule, and the State's official Driver's Manual (2023 edition, searched in full) never mentions one; license sanctions attach to specific offenses instead — excessive speeding itself carries a 30-day suspension on a first conviction.

No point accumulation exists to trigger a suspension. License consequences for speed come from the excessive-speeding statute (30-day suspension on a first offense, up to 6-month revocation by the third in five years) and other offense-specific laws. (Hawaii Driver's Manual (2023 ed.) — no point system appears; HRS §291C-105(c)(1)(B), (d)(2))

When a court appearance is required

Ordinary speeding is a decriminalized traffic infraction under HRS ch. 291D, resolvable by paying the monetary assessment without arraignment. Excessive speeding (30+ mph over, or 80+ mph) is a petty misdemeanor prosecuted criminally — sentencing under HRS 291C-105(c) is mandatory 'without the possibility of probation or suspension of sentence'. (HRS §291D-1; HRS §291C-105(c))

Where speed becomes a criminal charge

Criminal penalties are a courtroom matter and outside a fine table's scope — this page records the threshold as a fact and stops there.

Local variation — the honest caveat

Local variation is the design: 'the district court of each circuit shall prescribe a schedule of monetary assessments for all traffic infractions' — so the price of the same 15-over ticket is set per judicial circuit (Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai), and assessments may not deviate from that circuit's schedule except after a contested hearing or trial. No consolidated statewide publication of these schedules was located. (HRS §291D-9(b))

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

This is not legal advice This page republishes what Hawaii's statutes, court fine schedules, and driver-licensing publications print, for reference. Amounts change on legislative cycles, and the court named on a citation is the authority on what is owed in that court. Nothing here is advice about any citation or case.