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What the P1 and P2 zones cost, whether you have to pay right now — the charge only runs 10:00–16:00 on weekdays — and how to pay at a meter without the app.
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Paid parking came to the centre of Akureyri on Monday 4 April 2022, and the loudest local complaint about it ever since is that it seems to need a smartphone. It does not, and the town said so on the day it started: the apps are a convenience, not a requirement. There are three parking meters downtown, a disabled card parks free, and — the part most people are surprised by — the charge only runs from 10:00 to 16:00 on weekdays. Evenings, nights and the whole weekend are free.
This page states the two zones and their rates, works out from the clock whether you have to pay right now, and prices a stay of whatever length you're actually making. It is a calendar and a calculator, not a live read of any meter.
Right now
Parking is free right now
Free for now — paid parking starts at 10:00.
| Zone | Rate | Paid hours | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1 — the centreThe core downtown streets and squares. Choose P1 in whichever app you use. | 225 kr./hour | Mon–Fri 10:00–16:00 | Free |
| P2 — around the centreThe ring of streets and lots just outside P1, at half the rate. Same hours. Choose P2 in the app. | 113 kr./hour | Mon–Fri 10:00–16:00 | Free |
A permit costs the same whatever you use it for, so the useful number is how much paid parking it replaces. Each one pays for itself once you have parked the hours shown — charged hours only, spread over the whole period.
| Permit | Price | Pays for itself after |
|---|---|---|
| Íbúakort (resident card), one year | 6.750 kr. | 30 hours |
| Permit | Price | Pays for itself after |
|---|---|---|
| Íbúakort (resident card), one year | 6.750 kr. | 59,7 hours |
The íbúakort is for people who live inside the marked residents' area and have no parking on their own plot: registered owners with their lögheimili in the flat, tenants with a registered lease, and students who show confirmation from their school. One card per dwelling, one registration number on it, and it is electronic — the wardens' system looks the plate up, so there is nothing to put in the window. It is applied for through Akureyrarbær's þjónustugátt, renews itself yearly, and is not refunded if you cancel part-way. It exempts you from paying only in the charged bays inside the area your own card covers, which is not the whole of P1 or P2 — the town publishes a map of the card areas.
Separately, the town leases long-stay bays by the month on two fixed-lease areas, which are not the same thing as the zones above: F1 at Skipagata and Hofsbót costs 13.550 kr. a month, F2 at Túngata 6.750 kr. a month. A fixed-lease card is valid only inside its own area, covers one registration number at a time, and lapses if a month goes unpaid. At the P1 rate the F1 card is worth it from about 60 charged hours a month, which is roughly half of what a weekday-long stay through the whole charging window would come to.
Pick how long you’ll stay to see the price in each zone. The machine bills in whole steps, so we round up.
| Zone | Cost |
|---|---|
| P1 — the centre | 225 kr. |
| P2 — around the centre | 113 kr. |
When parking is free
Both zones are charged only between 10:00 and 16:00 on weekdays. Outside those hours — every evening, every night, all Saturday and all Sunday — parking in P1 and P2 costs nothing and needs no app, no ticket and no card. The town publishes the charge as weekdays 10:00–16:00 and does not publish a separate rule for public holidays that fall on a weekday, so this page does not claim one either. On a red day, check the app or a meter before you walk away. A blue disabled card (stæðiskort hreyfihamlaðra) parks free in charged bays as well as in the marked disabled spaces, provided the card is displayed inside the windscreen with its expiry visible from outside. The cards are issued by the sýslumaður, to a person rather than to a registration number, for up to ten years at a time.
In every app the thing you choose is the zone — P1 or P2 — so it is worth knowing which one you are standing in before you start. Both EasyPark and Parka also sell a business account for staff who park downtown during working hours.
Good to know
The published tariff is per hour and the apps register the time you actually use, so the step this page rounds up to is a single minute: the figure you see is simply the rate multiplied by the stay. A meter ticket is bought for a chosen length up front instead. Inside both P1 and P2 there are marked stretches alongside the street where the longest permitted stay is two hours. They are signposted, and drawn with a black dotted line on the town's own map. The cap is a rule, not a price: paying for longer does not buy you longer. Green bays for electric, hydrogen and methane vehicles are still charged when they sit inside a paid zone — a green bay is not a free bay. A car should not stand in a charging bay for longer than the charge takes.
The official zone map
How to read this
Source: Bifreiðastæðasjóður Akureyrarbæjar — the municipality's own parking page (last updated by the town on 7 May 2026), with the statute approved by the council on 22 February 2024, checked 14 August 2026 (last week).
Parking is free now
Paid parking starts at 10:00