Parking in Heerlen
With SimplePark you pay for on-street parking quickly from your phone. Start and stop your session whenever you want, see the price upfront, and avoid unnecessary fines. SimplePark knows all 31 parking zones of Heerlen: start your session in the app, stop it when you leave and pay only for the time you parked. With SimplePark you start and stop the parking session in the app and pay by the minute, plus €0.29 in service costs per parking action.
Where to park in Heerlen
Heerlen is convenient if you come by car: little congestion, direct connections and train stations close to the shopping areas. According to the municipality there is enough parking. The difficulty is not the space, but the layout of the city centre. The centre is for a large part a pedestrian area, and around it sit areas where residents and businesses need a parking permit.
In practice that means: you park on the edge of the pedestrian area and walk the last stretch. When you get out, look carefully at the signs at the bay where you stand, because in the permit-holder areas an ordinary parking space is not always meant for everyone. What you actually pay differs per place and is on the meter.
Into the pedestrian area
If you want to drive into the car-free part of the centre, for example to load or unload, that is only allowed after 12.00 with an exemption from the municipality. If you come as a visitor, that is therefore not a route: look for a parking space outside the area. For disabled parking and for a car that is standing wrongly the municipality has separate schemes; you find those on heerlen.nl.
Paying with your phone
The municipality of Heerlen does not put the rates on its own parking pages. On the parking meter you read what your space costs and which zone number belongs with it; you need that number if you pay with an app. With SimplePark you start your parking session at the moment you stop and you stop it as soon as you drive away. You pay by the minute, so you do not have to estimate in advance how long your shopping or that appointment in the city centre will take, and you do not run the risk that your ticket runs out just too soon.
How to pay with SimplePark in Heerlen
- Open the app: it finds the zone you are in, or you enter the zone code from the meter.
- Pick your plate and start your session. You see the Heerlen rate right away.
- Stop the session when you leave. You pay only for the time you parked.
FAQ about parking in Heerlen
May you drive into Heerlen city centre?
For a large part, no. Heerlen city centre is largely a pedestrian area. If you want to drive into that area after 12.00, you need an exemption from the municipality. As a visitor you therefore park on the edge of the pedestrian area and walk the last stretch.
What does parking in Heerlen cost?
The municipality does not publish the parking rates on its own parking pages. Therefore look on the parking meter or in your parking app which rate and which zone number apply at your space. In part of the areas around the centre you can only stand with a parking permit.