Parking guide · Spain

Where to park in Spain, town by town

Tell us the town and we’ll show you the map: the free car parks, the blue zone street by street with its real hours, and what the paid ones actually cost. Every entry cites its sources and the date we last checked it.

20 towns are available in English — the ones where visitors and foreign residents look for parking most. The full site covers 158 towns across the Valencian Community and Murcia in Spanish. Missing yours? Tell us and we’ll add it.

Albir and l’Alfàs del PiAlbir and l’Alfàs del PiL’Alfàs del Pi officially declares itself a “town with no blue zone”: 2,842 free spaces across 22 public car parks.No blue zone AlcossebreAlcossebreAlcossebre charges €0.60 an hour, and only in summer.Blue zone AlteaAlteaYou can’t drive up into Altea’s old town — so it all comes down to picking the right car park below.No blue zone BenicarlóBenicarlóBenicarló’s blue zone stops charging at 13:00, not 14:00, and doesn’t start again until 17:00.Blue zone BenidormBenidormBenidorm’s best-kept secret: 35 municipal park-and-ride car parks with over 8,000 free spaces, and a free shuttle bus into the centre.Blue zone BenissaBenissaOver 15,000 m² of free car parks around Benissa’s old town — and coves on the Paseo Ecológico that are full before 10am in summer.Blue zone CalpeCalpeCalpe’s orange zone only runs from June to September — on 1 October those beach streets go free again.Blue zone Canet d’en BerenguerCanet d’en BerenguerCanet charges on the Racó de Mar seafront and gives the car parks right behind it away for free — three minutes from the sand.Blue zone Castellón de la PlanaCastellón de la PlanaCastellón publishes its regulated streets, so we’ve mapped all of them.Blue zone CulleraCulleraCullera has 33,500 m² of free parking a short walk from Sant Antoni beach, charges only in the mornings in the old town, and sells a €9 all-day beach ticket in summer.Blue zone DéniaDéniaDénia has over 2,000 free spaces within 10 minutes of the centre and a blue zone at one cent a minute.Blue zone El CampelloEl CampelloEl Campello has no street blue zone: parking is free almost everywhere.No blue zone ElcheElcheCándalix is free, open 24 hours and three minutes from the Palmeral.Blue zone GandiaGandiaGandia’s blue zone is one of the cheapest on the coast — €1 for the two-hour maximum.Blue zone Guardamar del SeguraGuardamar del SeguraGuardamar only charges from 15 June to 15 September — and not in the centre, but at the beach access roads.Blue zone Moraira (Teulada)Moraira (Teulada)Moraira’s blue zone changes hours three times a year, and El Portet charges €15 a day in summer.Blue zone OlivaOlivaOliva’s blue zone runs all year but stops from 13:30 to 16:30, and all day on Sundays.Blue zone OrihuelaOrihuelaOrihuela is two places in one: an old town with a 620-space blue zone, and 16 km of coast — Playa Flamenca, La Zenia, Cabo Roig, Campoamor — where parking is still free.Blue zone Oropesa del MarOropesa del MarOrpesa charges only from 1 July to 10 September, 11:00 to 21:00, and only along the seafront promenades.Blue zone Serra d’IrtaSerra d’IrtaCastellón’s last wild coastline.No blue zone