Street Parking
Overview
The City of Cleveland continues to enhance its on-street parking system through technology upgrades, updates to parking regulations, and data-driven decision-making informed by stakeholder feedback. These efforts help ensure a balanced parking system that improves convenience, availability, and access for all Clevelanders.
Summer 2026 Changes
Changes have been made to Cleveland's previously announced parking rates and enforcement hours.
Here's what you need to know:
Neighborhood Parking
- Paid Parking enforced Monday to Friday, 7am to 8pm
- Standard Rates $1.00 per hour for the first 8 hours and then $3.00 thereafter
Downtown:
- Paid Parking enforced Monday to Saturday, 7am to 10pm (Sunday's free, except in Special Event Zones)
- Standard Rates $1.50 per hour with no hourly session cap in many zones (ideal for long-term affordable parking)
- Progressive Rates (4-hour session cap in high-demand areas)
- 1st and 2nd hour: $1.50 per hour
- 3rd and 4th hour: $3.00 per hour
- Special Event Rates $8.00 per hour (in select zones, enforced on Sunday's, please see map below)
- Zones activate 2 hours prior to event
Event Parking Restrictions
Look for orange signs posted on utility poles along affected streets for information on event parking restrictions, including the dates and times they apply.
IMPORTANT DURING THE TRANSITION
Parking signs will be updated over the next 30–45 days. Until then, use ParkMobile or Pay Stations for the most accurate parking rates and enforcement hours.
Map: Special Events Zones
Map: Downtown Base Rate Zones (no session cap)
Program Information
The goal of the street parking program is to provide convenient and available street parking. In areas with high demand, charging for the time spent parked on the curb is essential to encourage turnover and ensure there are available, convenient parking spaces in areas with street parking.
Expanding meter zones to new areas allows the city to update where we want street parking to be convenient and available as neighborhoods redevelop and new businesses open. Expanded zones are intended for commercial/mixed-use areas currently without coin-operated meters and with measurable or observable demand for street parking.
The City of Cleveland is partnering with ParkMobile to launch a digital parking solution to revolutionize the parking experience for both residents and guests.
The City will eventually phase out approximately 2,500 coin-based parking meters, which will transition into the uniform ParkMobile app-based parking system to modernize operations and improve efficiency and enforcement.
Non-smartphone users can also utilize ParkMobile by calling or texting an interactive voice response service.
The City of Cleveland has installed new, state-of-the-art on-street parking pay stations throughout the Central Business District and Ohio City to enhance the parking experience for residents and visitors. Single-space, coin-only meters have been replaced with Flowbird multi-space pay stations. These solar-powered devices manage multiple parking spaces and feature a touchscreen display with instructions in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin. The stations support a pay-by-plate system and accept both credit cards and coins. Parkers can pay at any station by entering their vehicle’s license plate number and the zone number where they are parked.