Which European airports are most expensive to park your car this Easter?

Published on 03/04/2026 - 8:00 GMT+2

Despite the Easter holidays getting disconnected to a atrocious commencement amid airdrome strikes and formation terms hikes owed to the warfare successful Iran, galore Europeans are inactive expected to deed the road.

Airlines similar easyJet have announced this volition beryllium their busiest Easter ever, with astir 30,000 flights passim Europe.

Last year, the biggest summation successful EU aerial rider postulation was registered betwixt March and April, with a emergence of 18.9%, according to Eurostat data.

But portion factoring successful flights and accommodation to your vacation fund is par for the course, it's casual to disregard the outgo of airdrome parking.

The UK and the Netherlands are the European countries with the astir costly parking successful the 30 busiest airports successful Europe, according to a caller survey from the e-vignette motorway toll tract VignetteSwitzerland.com.

London Stansted Airport emerges arsenic Europe's astir costly for 24-hour parking, charging astir €66 (£57.99).

However, not each airports successful the metropolis complaint the aforesaid prices.

For instance, a traveller parking astatine London Stansted volition wage astir treble what they would astatine London Heathrow — Europe's busiest airport.

Manchester Airport is the 2nd astir costly spot to parkland astatine astir €58 per day, followed by Amsterdam Schiphol, which charges €55.

The quality successful parking prices crossed Europe is besides striking.

London Stansted's 24-hour complaint is astir 50% much costly than Copenhagen Airport, astatine astir €35.75 (DKK 267), and substantially higher than Oslo Gardermoen Airport, astatine astir €34.88 (NOK 412).

Waiting to embark mightiness beryllium longer than expected

The differences don't halt astatine parking prices: some Manchester and London Stansted airports are among the apical 3 worst airports successful the UK for Easter formation delays.

At some airports, astir a 3rd of flights were delayed implicit the Easter period, with delays lasting much than 15 minutes, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority data.

In the European Union, Athens and Lisbon airports recorded the astir delays successful April 2025 owed to aerodrome capableness restrictions, according to Eurocontrol, the bloc's aerial postulation agency.