Rijeka · Croatia Updated 5 June 2026
Parking in Rijeka
How and where to park in Rijeka: the cheap city-run garages and zone lots (about €0.80/hour), the one expensive private trap to avoid, how the pay machines and number-plate cameras actually work, and which hotels make arriving by car easy.
Checked by hand. We researched 20 Rijeka car parks, kept these 10 and rejected 10 — every price and warning comes from recent drivers, not a feed. How we research →
Our parking picks
Zagrad B Parking Garage
garage The best-value central garage in Rijeka — a Rijeka Plus garage at about €0.80/hour, a short walk above the centre, as long as you pick the cheaper “B” and mind the narrow bays.
Garaža Ciottina
garage An affordable, secure city garage three minutes from the centre — cheaper at night, but with famously tight ramps, so go slowly in anything big.
Garaža Stari grad
garage A central old-town garage with EV charging and usually free spaces — pricier than the city garages and short on lifts, but reliably central by Trg Klobučarića.
Školjić Parking
garage A handy, cheap city car park near the old town at about €0.80/hour — often has space, but be ready to hunt for the entrance and the pay machine.
Gomila Square Parking
lot A central open-air lot that is free on Sundays and evenings — unbeatably handy for the centre, if you can handle the broken surface and the fiddly pay machine.
Parkiralište Delta
lot A cheap, central riverside lot at about €0.80/hour with automatic plate recognition — handy, if you don’t mind a rough, tight, unnumbered car park.
Parkiralište Srednja Delta
lot The big Delta overflow lot that “always” has space — the tourist-friendly fallback when central Rijeka is full, cheap and a short walk in.
Parking Brajdica (3. zona)
lot The cheapest all-day park in Rijeka — a 3. zona lot near the port at about €0.60/hour or ~€4.80 for the whole day, ten minutes’ walk from the centre.
Parkiralište Putnička obala
lot A small quayside lot by the passenger port — convenient for the ferry, the cruise terminal and the waterfront, but small and (per reviews) cash-only.
Parkiralište Korzo
lot Dead central but the priciest car park in Rijeka — a private lot at roughly €27–36 for 24 hours, with EV charging its one redeeming feature. Use a city garage instead.Hotels worth booking for their parking
Tips & information
Here is the good news about driving into Rijeka: parking is cheap. Croatia’s big port city is run, parking-wise, by the city operator Rijeka Plus, whose central garages and zone lots cost about €0.80 an hour — a world away from the €30-plus days of Munich or Barcelona. The covered garages just above the centre — Zagrad B and Ciottina — are the best value, and the cavernous open-air Srednja Delta lot on the Delta is the one locals point you to when the centre is full, because it “always” has a space. For a whole day, the Brajdica lot near the port is cheapest of all at around €4.80. There are three things to know before you go, though. First, the bays are tight almost everywhere — narrow-space and big-car warnings recur in nearly every review, so for an SUV head for the roomier open lots rather than the central garages. Second, paying can baffle visitors: some machines are cash-only (in euros now — Croatia dropped the kuna in 2023), some lots use number-plate cameras instead of tickets, and the on-street zones want a mobile app, so read the machine before you walk off. Third, avoid the one trap: Parkiralište Korzo is privately run and the most expensive in the city — about €27–36 for 24 hours — when a Rijeka Plus garage a few minutes away charges €0.80 an hour. Below, every car park lists real prices, walking times and the honest picture from recent visitors — plus hotels chosen for how easy they make parking, led by the rare central hotel with its own garage.