UK Airport Parking Price Index 2026

The average cost of eight days' parking at a UK airport in September 2026 is £36 on the cheapest available product with a code applied. Heathrow is the most expensive at £47 and East Midlands the cheapest at £30. The spread across mainstream airports is £17.

What this index measures

One booking, priced the same way at every airport: eight days, departing within 30 days, on the cheapest product available at that airport, with a 20% public code applied. No loyalty rates, no eligibility discounts, no airport-specific promotions.

Holding the method constant is what makes the airports comparable. A great deal of published airport parking comparison mixes stay lengths, booking windows and product types in a way that makes the resulting table meaningless. This one does not, and where a figure cannot be sourced consistently we leave the row out rather than estimate it.

What the September 2026 numbers show

The headline is that the gap between the cheapest and most expensive mainstream UK airport is £17 on an eight-day stay — smaller than most travellers assume, and much smaller than the gap between products at a single airport. Birmingham's own two car parks differ by £38, more than double the entire national spread.

That is the most useful finding in this table and it points somewhere specific: choosing the right product at your airport matters roughly twice as much as choosing a cheaper airport. Anyone driving further to save money on parking is almost certainly making a bad trade once fuel is counted.

The regional pattern is real but modest. London airports average £41, the North £35, Scotland £36 and the Midlands £34. Heathrow is the outlier that pulls London upward; Stansted at £33 is cheaper than several regional airports.

How to use this responsibly

These figures are a benchmark, not a quote. Airport car parks price by yield, so the number you see for your dates will differ from the number here — sometimes considerably, particularly in school holidays. What the index is useful for is judging whether a price you have been quoted is roughly normal for that airport.

If you are quoted 50% above the figure in this table for a comparable stay, you are probably booking too late or looking at the wrong product tier. That is the check this page is designed to support.

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