London Heathrow Airport parking: every car park and what it costs

The short answer

Every turn-up price on this page is the airport's own published price, checked on its website on 17 Oct 2026. Weekly totals are our sums from those prices. Pre-booked and partner prices change often, so we link to them live rather than quote them. How we check.

Heathrow's official parking, product by product

Heathrow says all 11 of its official car parks are run by Heathrow. Each product's price is the same at every terminal that has it, so they are grouped here by product; each name links to Heathrow's page. Priority Park & Ride for Terminals 2 & 3 and the Terminal 4 multi-storey are closed.

• Terminal Parking: Formerly Short Stay: multi-storeys next to Terminals 2 (Car Park 2, TW6 1EW), 3 (Car Park 3, TW6 1QG, and Car Park 1a, TW6 1QT) and 5 (Car Park 5, TW6 2GA). Take a ticket on the way in and pay at the machines before you leave. The maximum height is 2.20 metres. Blue Badge bays are clearly signed. No EV charging. Not available at Terminal 4: the multi-storey there closed on 23 June 2026. Stays over nine hours can be pre-booked, up to 99 days.
• Terminal Parking overheight area (Terminals 2 and 5): At Terminal 2, vehicles between 2.20 and 3 metres use the overheight area on the ground floor; at Terminal 5, use the Fast Track / Overheight Vehicles entrance on the ground floor of Car Park 5. The minimum charge is £21 for up to two hours. Terminal 3 has no separate price table: vehicles up to 2.70 metres can park on the ground floor of Car Park 3.
• Park & Ride: Formerly Long Stay, and still signed that way: one car park for Terminals 2 & 3 (Eastern Perimeter Road, TW6 2SB), one for Terminal 4 (Scylla Road, TW6 3XL; Zones B to D, and Zone A below) and one for Terminal 5 (Northern Perimeter Road, TW6 2RL). The same prices apply at all three. You keep your keys and take the free shuttle from stops around the car park; coming back, it leaves from bus stop 5/6 at Terminal 2, 14/15 at Terminal 3, 3 at Terminal 4 and 21 at Terminal 5. Between 23:30 and 04:00, call 020 8745 6261 for a transfer. Heathrow calls it its cheapest official parking.
• Park & Ride Terminal 4, Zone A: Since the Terminal 4 multi-storey closed on 23 June 2026, all passenger parking for Terminal 4 is in Zone A of the Park & Ride car park, which has Blue Badge parking and an Assisted Services Hub. Up to two hours is free here and nowhere else. If you have pre-booked, use Zones B to D. Heathrow says the shuttle back picks up from bus stops 5, 6 and 7, outside the arrivals hall.
• Priority Park & Ride: Formerly Business Parking, and some signs still say so. Only the Terminal 5 car park is open (Northern Perimeter Road, TW6 2RP): Heathrow says Priority Park & Ride for Terminals 2 & 3 is currently closed to passengers. You can pre-book or press the ticket button and pay on the day. Heathrow publishes only a one-day pay-on-the-day price, £47.90, which it calls a starting price, so we don't work out a week. At Terminal 5 the shuttle back leaves from Bus Stop 28.
• Pod Parking: Terminal 5 only (Northern Perimeter Road, TW6 2GX). You call a Pod from the car park; at other times a shuttle bus runs instead. Heathrow's page gives one pay-on-the-day price, a daily rate of £59.60, and its cheap-parking page calls that the price for the first day, so we don't work out a week.
• Meet & Greet: At Terminals 2 and 3 (Level 1 of the Terminal Parking car park) and Terminal 5 (Level 4): you hand your keys to an attendant at the reception, staff park the car in a dedicated area of the same car park, and it is waiting there when you return. Not available at Terminal 4 while its multi-storey is closed. Heathrow publishes drive-up prices but strongly recommends booking ahead, and its page also says drive-up prices start from £138.60 a day, lower than its own table.
• Valet Parking: Booked ahead only. You drive into a dedicated section of the departures forecourt at Terminal 2, 3 or 5, with a 100% discount on the Terminal Drop-Off Charge, hand over the keys, and collect the car from a dedicated area of that terminal's Terminal Parking car park; the reception is open from 05:00 to 22:30 for final collection. You can add Fast Track or a lounge when you book.

Turn-up prices

If you arrive without booking, these are the airport's published prices. Valet Parking is priced when you book. Tap a car park to see its full price list.

Booking ahead: Heathrow says its online prices are cheaper than turning up on the day, but it publishes no percentage saving against its gate prices. Its only percentages are member discounts: 5% off an official parking booking with its free My Heathrow membership, or 10% with Heathrow Rewards Premium, for bookings made online by 1 February 2027, terms and conditions apply. Book on the airport's own site, or compare the independent car parks below. Heathrow says official parking can be booked up to a year ahead and cancelled free up to two hours before your booked arrival time; amending a booking can bring extra charges or refunds. If you stay beyond your booking, you pay the daily rate for the extra time. Park & Ride can be pre-booked for stays over 24 hours; Terminal Parking for stays over nine hours, its own page says, although the pick-up page says under 24 hours can't be pre-booked.

Park or get dropped off? A week away

A lift costs least in charges, but it means two return trips to the airport for whoever drives you. If you're driving yourself, don't just turn up at the barrier: even the cheapest official car park costs £271.20 a week that way. The London Heathrow drop-off guide has the full rules for the terminal drop-off zones, and park or drop off at Heathrow compares the two by trip length. At Terminal 4, which has no Terminal Parking, collecting from Priority Pick-Up costs £7 for up to 10 minutes, so a lift both ways is £14, or £21 if the pick-up takes 11 to 29 minutes. Collecting from Zone A of the Park & Ride car park, free for up to 2 hours, brings it down to the £7 drop-off. We leave three products out of the turn-up rows. Heathrow publishes drive-up prices for Meet & Greet, £413.60 for a week by our sum, but strongly recommends booking it ahead and gives two different one-day figures (£143.40 in its table, from £138.60 in its text). For Priority Park & Ride and Pod Parking it gives only a one-day price, £47.90 and £59.60.

Turn-up cost for 3, 7 and 14 days

These are our sums from the day rates in the airport's published turn-up prices above; the lowest in each column is in bold. Check the pre-booked price for your dates on the airport's own site before you settle for any of these.

Picking someone up

Heathrow doesn't allow pick-ups or waiting in the terminal drop-off zones, and unattended cars may be towed. At Terminals 2, 3 and 5, meet your passenger in Terminal Parking, or wait free in Park & Ride and let them take the free shuttle out to you. At Terminal 4, Heathrow calls Zone A of the Park & Ride car park the best option for meeting people in the terminal: the first 2 hours are free, with a shuttle every 5 minutes. The Priority Pick-Up area, reached by following Salisbury Road, is right outside the terminal but you can't leave the car unattended there, and charges rise to £25 for each extra hour, up to £200 a day. Terminal Parking and Park & Ride use a ticket and pay machines (or at the exit barriers in Terminal Parking). Terminal 4 Priority Pick-Up has no on-site payment: pay online or by automated phone, by card, by midnight the day after your visit, or an £80 Parking Charge follows, reduced to £40 if paid within 14 days. Blue Badge discounts don't apply there.

Blue Badge and accessible parking

In the Park & Ride car parks, including Terminal 4 Zone A, the first 2 hours are free for UK and EEA Blue Badge holders: for a drop-off, use the call point on entry and give your badge number and registration, then the call point on exit; for a pick-up, use the call point on exit. Every car park has Blue Badge bays, with help points nearby to arrange free assistance, and Terminal 4 Zone A has an Assisted Services Hub. At the terminal drop-off zones, Blue Badge holders can get a 100% discount on the £7 charge in any vehicle carrying them, a taxi included, even if they don't drive: a Blue Badge Account must be applied for at least 7 days before your next visit, and approval can take up to five days. Blue Badge discounts don't apply at Terminal 4 Priority Pick-Up, and the Blue Badge scheme doesn't operate on the roads around Heathrow. See how London Heathrow compares with other airports in the Blue Badge guide.

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Sources, checked 17 Oct 2026: London Heathrow Airport's pages on parking, Terminal Parking, Park & Ride, Terminal 2 Park & Ride, Terminal 3 Park & Ride, Terminal 5 Park & Ride, Terminal 4 parking, changes to Terminal 4, Priority Park & Ride, Pod Parking, Meet & Greet, Valet Parking, finding the car parks, cheap parking, passenger pick-ups, Terminal 4 Priority Pick-Up, hotel and parking, parking FAQs, the Terminal Drop-Off Charge, its terms, accessible travel, lounges and Fast Track; and Holiday Extras' Heathrow parking, meet and greet, hotel and lounge pages, Airparks' Heathrow page and YourParkingSpace's Heathrow page.