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(2 months ago)
Pick how long you are staying and how many of you there are. This prices York's ten council long-stay car parks and a Park & Ride return against each other, cheapest first, using the tariffs that took effect on 1 April 2026.
Two things worth knowing before you read the numbers. Council car parks cost about 10% more on Fridays, Saturdays and event days — the day picker below switches between the two. And three smaller car parks outside the walls, at Bishopthorpe Road, East Parade and Rowntree Park, charge £3 an hour but each has its own limits: Rowntree Park is three hours maximum and closes at dusk, and East Parade only allows stays over two hours after 3pm. Their prices are frozen while the council runs a formal review, so they are not priced here.
Charges run 8am to midnight in the long-stay car parks. Parking between midnight and 8am is free, and an evening ticket bought from 6pm stays valid until 8am.
If you live in York, the Minster Badge is worth checking: £45 for two years, and it takes about 30% off these daytime prices and half off the evening rate.
Right now: Park & Ride
Day return, bought from the driver or the app
Park & Ride
Cheapest
Six sites on the ring road: Askham Bar (service 3), Designer Outlet (7), Grimston Bar (8), Monks Cross (9), Poppleton Bar (59) and Rawcliffe Bar (2/2A). Parking at the site is free if you take the bus or cycle in — at Monks Cross it is £5 a day if you do neither, and at Askham Bar and Grimston Bar parking without using the bus is not permitted at all. No overnight parking anywhere: the gates lock 15 minutes after the last bus arrives, and getting a car out after that costs £50.
Buses take about 20 minutes into the centre. Askham Bar runs every 10 to 15 minutes from 7am to 6pm on weekdays. The last bus from the city centre is around 10.30pm but it is not the same everywhere — Designer Outlet and Rawcliffe Bar run to 11pm Monday to Saturday, Poppleton Bar stops at 10.20pm on Sundays — so check your own route. No service on Christmas Day or New Year's Day.
£4.00
total
Two ways this comes down. Up to three children aged 16 or under travel free with an accompanying adult when you board at a Park & Ride site, so a family usually pays less than the figure here. And up to five people travelling together can buy a First Group Day ticket for £13.00 after 9am on weekdays, or any time at weekends. With an older person's or disabled person's bus pass it is £1.40 boarding at a site — after 9am on weekdays, any time at weekends, and any time for York Blind Person's pass holders.
The biggest central car park and the one with the most Blue Badge bays in the city. Open 24 hours; charges apply 8am to midnight every day, including Sundays and bank holidays. No height limit. Over five hours costs £3.80 an hour on a standard day, £4.10 on a premium day. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
Small, close to Bootham Bar and the Minster. Open 24 hours; charges 8am to midnight. No height limit. Over five hours costs £3.80 an hour, £4.10 on a premium day. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
Coppergate Centre
Piccadilly, YO1 9NX — 248 spaces, 18 Blue Badge bays plus 10 Shopmobility bays
City of York Council
↕ 2.00 m height limit
The tightest entrance in York at 2 metres, and it locks at 7pm — leave a car in and there is a £50 release fee. Ticketless: cameras read your plate and you pay before leaving. The Minster Badge discount cannot be claimed by phone here, only at a paystation. This is also the Shopmobility site.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
Esplanade
West Esplanade, YO26 4ZP — 75 spaces, 5 Blue Badge bays
City of York Council
↕ 2.10 m height limit
By the river on the station side of the Ouse. Open 24 hours; charges 8am to midnight. Over five hours costs £3.80 an hour, £4.10 on a premium day. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
Marygate
Frederic Street, YO30 7DT — 329 spaces
City of York Council
Over five hours is the all-day price, which runs from when you arrive until midnight; after midnight parking is free until 8am. Ticketless, with a pay-on-foot barrier trial. This is the one council car park where a Blue Badge does not park free inside — the free bays are outside the barrier. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
Open 24 hours, no height limit, a short walk over the bridge to Clifford's Tower. Over five hours is the all-day price, valid until midnight. It sits in the Ouse floodplain and closes as a precaution when the river is high. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
Monk Bar
St John's Street, YO31 7QR — 206 spaces, 19 Blue Badge bays
City of York Council
Open 24 hours; charges 8am to midnight. Over five hours is the all-day price, valid until midnight. Check the entrance height on the day — the council's page says there is no restriction, but the barrier is low enough that a tall van is worth a look first. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
Just outside the walls near Micklegate Bar. Over five hours is the all-day price, valid until midnight. Blue Badge holders park free but not in the car-club or electric-charging bays. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
North of the walls off Clarence Street. Over five hours is the all-day price, valid until midnight. The £4.00 evening ticket covers 6pm to midnight and stays valid until 8am; parking between midnight and 8am is free.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
Foss Bank
Jewbury, YO31 7PL — 316 spaces, 4 Blue Badge bays
City of York Council
↕ 2.00 m height limit
Locks at 8pm, and there is a £50 release fee if your car is inside when it does. The only long-stay council car park with no evening rate — charges stop when it closes. Blue Badge holders park free until 8pm.
£5.00
total
Fridays, Saturdays and event days: £5.50
None of these car parks is inside the footstreets, and none can be. Motor vehicles are kept out of the pedestrian streets between 10.30am and 5.00pm every day by sliding bollards. Blue Badge holders can drive in during those hours through staffed bollards at Goodramgate or Blake Street, and park free in any council car park with no time limit — except Marygate, where the free bays are outside the barrier. City centre access — City of York Council