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Rhode Island · Permit test

RI DMV locations and hours

Every office of the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) works by reservation only, so book before you go. The list of RI DMV locations and hours is short: headquarters in Cranston and three branches, plus AAA offices for some services.

  • 4DMV offices open by reservation
  • 9AAA offices offering some DMV services
  • 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.Office hours, Monday to Friday
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Updated November 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

Where are the RI DMV locations, and what are their hours?

From the DMV’s locations page, all with the same weekday hours:

  • Cranston headquarters: 600 New London Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920
  • Middletown: 52 Valley Road, Middletown, RI 02842
  • Wakefield: 4808 Tower Hill Road, Wakefield, RI 02879
  • Woonsocket: Diamond Hill Plaza, 2000 Diamond Hill Road, Woonsocket, RI 02895

The Warren and Westerly branches are closed. Westerly has a drop box at Westerly Town Hall, 45 Broad Street, open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The DMV says drop box work takes 7 to 14 days.

Taking the permit test at the Cranston DMV

The computerized knowledge exam and every commercial license service are at Cranston headquarters only. The permit test runs Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., by reservation. The road test for a car license is in Cranston too.

How the permit test works →The road test →

What the branches handle

Middletown, Wakefield and Woonsocket handle these, among others:

  • Your first license after passing the road test
  • Renewals, duplicates, address and name changes and out-of-state transfers
  • State IDs and registrations
  • Duplicate permits, and limited permits for under-18s with the course certificate from the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI)
  • Scheduling or changing a road test

Phone numbers

The numbers on the DMV’s locations page:

AAA offices

AAA offices handle some DMV services, by appointment: license renewals, updates and duplicates (not commercial licenses), state IDs, registrations and motorcycle endorsements. The DMV lists them in Cranston, Cumberland, East Providence, Greenville, Providence, Middletown, Narragansett, Warwick and South Attleboro, Massachusetts, open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Motorcycle license →
Sources: Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles and 2 more. Checked November 2026.

Rules and fees can change, so check the official site before your test.

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