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The cheapest and most expensive city centres

If you live in Wolverhampton, you’re in luck as our results show this to be the cheapest city to park your car, with an average daily rate of just £1.90. Unsurprisingly, the City of London, where you’ll find some of the UK’s biggest financial firms, is the most expensive. To park here for eight to 10 hours will cost you a staggering £53.80 on average.

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The cost of car parks around the UK

Drilling down into more detail, we can reveal Dudley Road, Bell Place, in Wolverhampton is officially the UK’s cheapest car park. This sits alongside Bradford’s Captain Street car park and Greenlough Road in Lichfield, where you’ll be charged just £1.50 for the entire day.

In comparison, Liverpool Lime Street’s short stay car park is the most expensive. To park here all day, you’d have to pay a jaw-dropping £135.00. Following that if you want to park on Brewer Street, City of London, you’ll have to cough up £60 for the daily rate.

Cheapest Car Parks

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In comparison, Liverpool Lime Street’s short stay car park is the most expensive. To park here all day, you’d have to pay a jaw-dropping £135.00. Following that if you want to park on Brewer Street, City of London, you’ll have to cough up £60 for the daily rate.

Most Expensive Car Parks

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Find the perfect parking spot

To find the perfect parking spot, enter or select a city from the dropdown list in the table below. Filter through the data to see the cheapest and most expensive car parks in each location, along with the estimated number of minutes it takes to walk into the city centre.

With the rise in electric vehicles, our interactive table also highlights which car parks feature charging points.

From the car parks we analysed, we found Wakefield to be the cheapest city to park an electric vehicle, with an average daily rate of £2.50. Brighton and Hove also has some good value options, with six of eight car parks offering charge points.

If you don’t carry cash, you can also use the table to see which car parks offer card payments in your city.

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The biggest money savers

To uncover which car parks could save you the most money, we used our data to find out if parking further away from the city centre is more cost-effective for commuters.

We looked at the average daily rate in comparison to walking distance for the cheapest and most expensive car parks in each city, to reveal the best places to park if you’re willing to walk a little further.

In Liverpool, if you opt to park on Fort Knox car park and walk for 21 minutes into the city centre, you could save an eye-watering £132.00 in comparison to parking at Liverpool Lime Station’s short stay car park, which is a nine minute walk. You’ll have to walk an extra 12 minutes, but for a saving like that, we’d be happy to get our step count up.

However, in Westminster and Trafalgar, parking further away doesn’t necessarily save you money. Westminster’s cheapest car park is £33.00 a day and is four minutes closer to the city centre than the most expensive, which charges £48.00.

Take a look at the table below to see which car parks provide the biggest savings for drivers.

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Methodology:

Car park price and facilities data taken from Parkopedia and is accurate as of August 2020. Data was sourced by manually searching the postcode of each city centre (as close as the tool would allow) and sorting locations by most / least expensive whilst filtering out car parks that had a walking distance of greater than 25 minutes. Whilst in most cases we’ve analysed five car parks in each city, in some of the smaller cities there were only three or four car parks to include from the radius we covered.