Gibraltar has 49.9 km of road, roughly as many registered motor vehicles as it has residents, and about 585 metered public parking bays in the entire territory. Those three numbers answer the parking question before anybody asks it. The road and vehicle figures come from the [transport profile of Gibraltar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Gibraltar). The bay count is ours: add up the eighteen pay and display zones that the Gibraltar Tourist Board lists with a bay count on its [driving and parking page](https://www.visitgibraltar.gi/driving-and-park) and you get 585 spaces, shared between 37,936 residents at the 2022 census and every visitor who drives in. So the useful post is not a list of car parks. It is the arithmetic of when a car is worth having here at all, and the handful of rules that cost people money because nobody writes them down. This is the most valuable paragraph on this page, and it is one line on an official site that almost nobody quotes. In the town area, white bays are free. Yellow lines are for resident permit holders only. Blue lines are pay and display. Get that backwards and the day costs you a ticket. British drivers in particular read a yellow line as a no waiting line and a white bay as unremarkable, which is the exact opposite of what they mean here. The Tourist Board names the free white bays around Grand Parade, near the bottom station of the cable car, and is explicit that only the centre bays with white lines are free. Those free bays are the most contested parking in Gibraltar. Arriving at ten in the morning in August and expecting one is optimistic. These are the non resident rates published by the Tourist Board and by the operators themselves. They are not the figures on most travel pages, which are years out of date. | Car park | Day rate | Night rate or cap | | Devil's Tower Road | 50p per hour | The same, 24 hours a day | | Mid-Town, Reclamation Road | 1.80 per hour, 07.45 to 19.00 | 80p per hour overnight | | Ocean Spa Plaza, Bayside Road | 1.50 per hour, 07.00 to 19.00 | 70p per hour, 19.01 to 06.59 | | Ocean Village Public | 1.85 per hour, 07.00 to 19.00 | 75p per hour, 19.01 to 06.59 | | World Trade Centre, Bayside Road | 1.50 per hour | 13.50 for 9 to 12 hours, 19 for 24 | | ICC, Line Wall Road | 2.00 per hour, 08.00 to 20.00 | 23 a day capped for 3 days, then 7 | All figures in pounds. The [Ocean Village rates](https://www.parkinggibraltar.com/) are dated on the operator's own site as effective from 1 February 2026, which is more than most sources will tell you. Two things in that table are worth staring at. Devil's Tower Road at 50p an hour is less than a third of what Mid-Town charges in the daytime and a fifth of the Line Wall Road meter at 2.50. And the ICC is the only car park in town with a real long stay cap. The metered zones are not interchangeable, and the differences matter more than the price does. Most charge 1.40 an hour between 09.00 and 22.00. Line Wall Road is the outlier at 2.50 an hour with a three hour maximum, which is the Tourist Board's way of saying this is a shopping street rather than a car park. Airport Zone A is 1.40 but caps you at two hours. Alameda Gardens is 1.70. If you simply want to find a space, go where the bays are. Coaling Island is the largest single zone at 105 bays, followed by Landport Ditch at 86 and Small Boats Marina at 69. Coaling Island is also the one that stops charging earliest, at 18.00 rather than 22.00. Those published hours cut both ways. A blue bay is only chargeable inside its stated window, so a car left in a 09.00 to 22.00 zone overnight costs nothing until nine the next morning. Move it by then and it is the cheapest parking in Gibraltar. Forget, and it is the most expensive. You can also pay online rather than feeding a machine. Here is the arithmetic nobody does for you. Devil's Tower Road charges a flat 50p an hour around the clock, so a full day is 12 pounds and there is no cap. The ICC charges 23 pounds a day for the first three days, which is 69 pounds, and then 7 pounds a day after that. Three days at Devil's Tower Road is 36 pounds against 69 at the ICC, so for a short break the cheap car park wins easily. But the ICC's 7 pound rate keeps grinding the average down. At nine days it is 111 pounds against 108. At ten days it is 118 against 120, and from day ten onwards the ICC is cheaper, by 5 pounds for every further day. So the rule is simple. Under ten days, Devil's Tower Road. Ten days or more, the ICC. Take cash to the ICC. Its published terms say credit cards are not accepted, and the same notice is self contradictory about coins, listing the ones it takes and then saying coins are not accepted. Notes are the safe answer, and change is given in pounds. This is the rule that surprises people most, and it is official. A non resident vehicle cannot be driven inside the Gibraltar Nature Reserve on the Upper Rock. The only exception is for Blue Badge holders. That means the apes, St Mich