Attention! In some areas the real operaton has not been started. The map indicates the tariffs
which have been approved by the municipality of Budapest.

June 15, 2009. - New 200 HUF coins in operation

All P&D machines operated by the On Street Parking Association (FKPT) are except the new 200 HUF coins.

June 1, 2009. - New parking decree now in force!

In District V, the parking fee is generally HUF 365/hour, with a time limit of three hours, in working days from 8 AM to 8 PM.
One exception is the Pest Lower Wharf (Pesti alsó rakpart), where no time limit applies and the parking fee is - in the zone north of the Chain Bridge (Lánchíd) HUF 220/hour.

On April 30, 2009, the General Assembly of the Municipality of Budapest passed a new parking decree as well as a decree on the regulation of the Parking and Traffic Improvement Funds.

The most important new provisions of the Parking Decree:

Disclaimer: The following list contains the most important new provisions of the decree only, is intended exclusively for information, and should not in any way be considered as a substitute for the official text of the regulation in force!

• Within the Great Boulevard (Nagykörút), parking fees have to be paid from 8 AM to 8 PM;
  
• The basis for counting the hourly parking fee is the amount equal to the price of a one-route ticket issued by BKV Zrt. (henceforth BKVA);
  
• Single fees are the amounts determined by multiplying the BKVA by the respective factor and rounded up to HUF 5.

An informative map indicating the parking fees

• In the case of smog alert, no parking fee has to be paid on the respective day for vehicles that are not allowed to run that day
  
• The Penalty Charge Notice rates
  if paid within five calendar days, ten times the amount of the parking fee for one hour on the respective area,
  if paid over five but within ninety calendar days, thirty times the amount of the parking fee for one hour on the respective area,
  if paid over ninety calendar days, fifty times the amount of the parking fee for one hour on the respective area;
  
• In the case of unauthorised parking on designated parking places for disabled, the supplementary fee to be paid is three hundred times the amount of the parking fee for one hour on the respective area;
  
• Once a month, the valid (but not regularly displayed) ticket or the ticket purchased maximum 5 minutes after the parking ticket was issued can be produced to the parking operator;
  
• Resident Parking Permits are generally valid for public spaces owned by the Capital, too; exceptions are provided for by the Decree
  
• Maximum two Resident Parking Permits can be issued for one address
  
• For the first Resident' Parking Permit for the same address, the maximum rate of reduction is 100 %, for the second one 50 %, depending on the environmental category of the vehicles
  
• Resident Parking Permits will be valid (from 2010) for zones within the respective districts only
  
• Permits can be issued (from 2010) on the condition - among others - that there are no undisputed supplementary fees or unpaid parking fines issued for unauthorised parking further back than 30 days for the respective vehicle

Ways of paying the parking fee

Pay and Display Machine		Mobile phone payment
Cash	Parking Card	EME Zrt	Ad-hoc payment
easy payment no registration needed no "convenience costs" no further costs can be used with any machine	easy payment no registration needed no "convenience costs" no further costs no need to carry coins easy to charge for companies suitable for paying supplementary fees	only the exact parking time is paid for no cash needed account is easy to top up can be used citywide in Budapest also available in several other cities fleet service available the fastest way to pay through dialing	only the exact parking time is paid for no cash needed no account needed can be used citywide in Budapest also available in several other cities
necessary to have coins at hand parking time should be known in advance	to be paid in advance parking time should be known in advance cards available in a few places only can be used with max. two operators	to be paid in advance (except for the clients of certain banks) "convenience costs" to pay communication costs to pay client complaints not always handled by the operator	higher "convenience costs" to pay communication costs to pay client complaints not always handled by the operator

IMPORTANT NOTE on ad-hoc parking payments:

First orientate yourself, then park!

• This service is available with a Mobile Payment Account, an account suitable for extra charge services, or a universal account! If you are not sure if you have such an account, please contact your mobile phone operator!
  
  
• On the FIRST ad-hoc parking payment, the license plate number of your car has to be registered in the system of the mobile operator by sending a text message!
  See the mobile phone operators' websites for details: Pannon T-Mobile Vodafone
  Space, hyphen or other characters must not be used when registering a license plate number (otherwise the parking operator cannot 'see' the payment by mobile phone) Correct format: ABC123
  Incorrect format: ABC 123, ABC-123
  
  
• Do not dial the prefix of your mobile phone number for ad-hoc parking, but that of your mobile phone operator! If you have previously migrated to another operator and you have ported your number, then the prefix of your mobile phone number may be different from the default prefix of the mobile phone operator!
  
  
• If your operator is Pannon, dial the prefix 20; the prefix is 30 for T-Mobile, 70 for Vodafone, independently of the prefix of your mobile phone number.
  
  
• Both in the case of ad-hoc parking and the clients of the First Mobile Payment Clearing Private Co. Ltd. (EME Zrt), the parking operator charges the parking fee provided for by the valid Parking Decree only. Determining the costs of communication (text messages, call prices) and "convenience costs" are the competences of mobile phone companies and the operator of the pay-by-mobile phone system, respectively. The rate and eventual modification of these fees are not determined by the parking operator
  

October 18, 2008 - On-line parking enforcement in District V

On October 18, 2008, after several months' trial period, the Budapest Public Area Parking Association (FKPT) has changed to on-line parking enforcement. FKPT had used handheld computers and printers that were built to last since April 19, 1996, the day it started its parking services. Although these equipment is still serviceable, it is strongly outdated technically, with increasing maintenance costs.

The introduction of visual data recording in 2003 and mobile phone payments in October 2006 made new equipment necessary, and called for a solution that tackles all tasks with the help of a system integrated into one device.

Within the system now introduced, a PDA together with a printer fulfil all control tasks. Before issuing a parking ticket, the system checks Resident Parking Permits and mobile phone payments on-line (it is also capable of looking for license plate numbers of stolen cars, once these data become available). Photographs can be taken with the device and also the inspector can be called through an integrated phone. The software attaches the coordinates provided by the GPS integrated into the PDA to the supplementary fee data, and sends these - together with the checksum codes of the images - to the enforcement centre.