Altlay is a municipality located in the Cochem-Zell district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is classified as an Ortsgemeinde, which is a type of local municipality belonging to a larger collective municipality known as a Verbandsgemeinde.
The village is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Zell, which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel. Altlay serves as one of the constituent communities within this regional administrative structure.