Ronda parking: where to park and what it costs

Park at Martínez Astein, the big underground car park on the north side of Ronda’s new town. It is open 24 hours, costs €2 an hour or €24 for the day, and leaves you a walk of about 15 minutes to the Puente Nuevo. La Concepción, close to the bus station, is a little closer. Two warnings before you set off: the Plaza del Socorro car park, the one most older guides send you to, has been closed since August 2026, and cameras fine visiting cars that drive over the bridge.

Ronda parking fees

Checked October 2026. Only Martínez Astein publishes a tariff. The others are paid car parks with no official tariff we could find, so check the price on site.

Car park	Fee	Hours	Walk to bridge
Martínez Astein	€2/h, €24 a day	24 h	15 min
La Concepción	Paid, check on site	24 h	10 min
Poeta Rilke	Paid, check on site	24 h	8 min
La Merced	Paid, check on site	07:30-23:30	8 min
El Castillo	Paid, check on site	24 h	8 min
El Fuerte	Paid, check on site	Disputed	15 min
Renfe station	Paid, check on site	Disputed	17 min
Plaza del Socorro	Closed	Closed	5 min

Walking times are our own routing estimates to the middle of the bridge. Ronda is hilly, so add a few minutes for the climb back.

Don’t drive over the Puente Nuevo

Since 1 August 2025 only light vehicles registered for tax in Ronda may use the axis of Calle Armiñán, the Puente Nuevo and Virgen de la Paz. The town hall put cameras on the Cuesta de las Imágenes and on Virgen de la Paz, and local press reported 49,698 fines between August and December 2025. A hire car with plates from elsewhere is not registered in Ronda.

Hotels inside the zone can tell the local police about a guest’s booking so the car can pass. That is the only exception for visitors. If you are staying in a central hotel, send it your number plate before you arrive; our guide to where to stay in Ronda lists which hotels charge for parking.

Day visitors should stay on the north side of the new town and walk in. Two guides also say parts of the old town are pedestrian or one-way, and that large vehicles should keep out of it.

The car parks, one by one

Martínez Astein (APK2)

This is the one to aim for. The operator, APK2, lists two entrances, on Avenida Martínez Astein and on Calle Córdoba, and keeps it open 24 hours, 365 days a year. Its tariff runs €2 for one hour, €4 for two, €6 for three, €8 for four and €10.05 for five, with a €24 daily maximum and the same prices in its app (checked October 2026). The operator calls these prices indicative, so check the machine. Headroom is 2.20 m, and there are APKElectric chargers for electric cars.

Capacity figures disagree: one local guide says 400 spaces, the volunteer map OpenStreetMap says 800. Either way it is the biggest public car park we found. It sits at the top of the main pedestrian street, which you follow down towards the bridge.

La Concepción, near the bus station

An open-air car park on Calle Comandante Salvador Carrasco, about 270 m from the bus station. OpenStreetMap lists the town hall as operator, with 175 spaces and payment by cash or card. It is paid, but we found no official tariff, so check the price at the machine. It is about 10 minutes’ walk from the bridge.

One guide also lists a “Victoria” car park on Avenida Victoria with 105 spaces, open 08:00 to 22:00, and the Costa del Sol tourism board puts a 105-space car park by the bus station. We could not tell whether that is the same lot.

Poeta Rilke

An open-air car park on Avenida Poeta Rilke, about 8 minutes from the bridge. It is paid, with no official tariff we could find, so check the price on site. One guide puts it at 180 spaces, open 24 hours. It is a sensible second choice if Martínez Astein’s walk is too far.

La Merced

An underground car park on Calle Carlos Cobo Gómez, by Plaza de la Merced at the top of Virgen de la Paz. It is paid; we found no official tariff, so check the price at the entrance. One guide gives a 2.10 m height limit. Hours are 07:30 to 23:30 on weekdays and 08:00 to 23:30 at weekends and on public holidays. The camera zone starts on Virgen de la Paz just past here, so follow the car park signs and do not carry on towards the bridge.

El Castillo

The only public car park we found in the old town, on Plaza Duquesa de Parcent, run by the town hall according to OpenStreetMap, with 176 to 194 spaces depending on the source. It is paid, but guides disagree on the price and we found no official tariff. The access streets are narrow, and we could not confirm whether you can reach it without passing a camera. We would not drive to it on a day trip.

El Fuerte

On Calle Guadalcobacín in the El Fuerte industrial area, on the north side of town, about 15 minutes’ walk from the bridge. It is paid, with no official tariff we could find. One guide reports a 2.10 m height limit and hours of 09:00 to 21:30, closed on Sundays. Another lists it as open 24 hours. Check before you leave the car overnight.

Renfe station

A pay car park on Avenida de Andalucía by the station, about 17 minutes from the bridge. We found no published fee, and the hours conflict: 24 hours on OpenStreetMap, 07:00 to 23:00 in a local guide. No trains run to Ronda in October 2026; Renfe runs replacement buses.

Plaza del Socorro (closed)

The underground car park beneath Plaza del Socorro, about 5 minutes from the bridge, had about 300 spaces. The town hall closed it on 21 August 2026 after a report by the provincial fire service found safety and accessibility problems, and the operator must fix them before it can reopen. On 19 September 2026 there was still no reopening date. Some booking sites still sell spaces here; don’t buy one.

Free parking in Ronda

None of the free options is official, and all of them mean a longer walk. Local guides name Barrio San Cristóbal, on Avenida Ricardo Navarrete, with about 50 spaces and often full, about 15 minutes from the bridge; Plaza Pruna, with about 40; signed free parking on the outskirts towards Polígono El Fuerte; and a small free lot near the train station. White-lined and unmarked bays are generally free. Guides disagree about blue lines: two say blue bays are paid with a time limit, a third says Ronda has no blue zone. Read the street signs.

How early do the car parks fill?

No source gives a time. The local guides say free spaces are rare in high season, that you should arrive early in the morning in summer and at weekends, and that Barrio San Cristóbal is usually full. Martínez Astein, the largest, is the one to try first.

Parking for a day trip with Setenil

Setenil de las Bodegas is 19 km from Ronda, about 30 minutes by car. Martínez Astein and La Concepción are on the north side of town, the side you leave by for Setenil, and our routing gives about 17.5 km from either car park to Setenil’s cave streets. Starting from El Castillo in the old town adds about 4 km.

A plan that works: drive to Setenil first and arrive before 11:00, when the coach tours start arriving there, then come back to Ronda for lunch and park at Martínez Astein. Setenil’s own parking is covered in our guide on how to get to Setenil de las Bodegas. Once you are parked in Ronda, the 1.5-hour group walking tour shown above covers the bridge, the bullring and the Mondragón Palace. For the rest of the afternoon, see our things to do in Ronda. For the drive up from the coast, see our Málaga to Ronda guide.

Motorhomes

Área Autocaravanas Ronda is on the Ronda to Algeciras road at km 1.5, about 1 km from the old town on foot. It has 20 levelled pitches, water filling and emptying, toilets, showers, wifi and a night watch, and you cannot drive in or out between 22:00 and 08:00. Its website shows no price. Keep motorhomes out of the old town altogether, and note the height limits: 2.20 m at Martínez Astein and 2.10 m reported at several other car parks.

Gotchas

1. Plaza del Socorro is closed but still bookable on some sites.
2. The bridge cameras apply to hire cars. Only a hotel inside the zone can get you through.
3. Martínez Astein’s prices are “indicative”, in the operator’s own word. Read the machine.
4. Several car park hours conflict between sources, especially El Fuerte and the station. Check before leaving a car overnight.