Access by road

Parking in Monaco

Some forty pay car parks, mostly underground, with a total of 20,000 spaces, are available to motorists in Monaco.

For visitors to Monaco, the brand-new Les Salines car park at the western entrance to the city offers ample capacity on 15 levels, with 1,800 spaces at attractive rates: €7.50 for 1/2 day and €11 for a full day.

Parking at the Les Salines car park also means easy access to the city centre, with two Monabike stations, a free return ticket for 5 people on a Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco bus, and pedestrian access to various districts. The city centre (Place d'Armes) can be reached in 15 minutes, and the new "Galerie piétonne des Salines" links the Jardin Exotique district to the Avenue Pasteur, where the Wurtemberg footbridge is located, making it easier to get to the Condamine and Fontvieille districts.

Consult the official car park map (with spaces available in real time)

There are around 1,000 public surface car parks throughout the Principality. These are chargeable - except for electric vehicles - and must be paid for using local parking meters, or the PayByPhone and Monapass applications.

Getting to Monaco by motorway

Monaco is served by the A8 motorway, known as the Provençale, which runs along the Côte d'Azur. There are three exits into the Principality:

Exits 56 Monaco/Cap-d'Ail and 57 La Turbie are linked to the A500 motorway, which passes through a tunnel and then joins the D6007 to cross the border into Monaco at the level of the Princess Grace Hospital and join the southern districts of Monaco (Rocher, Fontvieille, Port Hercule, Monte-Carlo);
Exit 58 Beausoleil provides access to Monaco from the northern border, near the Larvotto, via Beausoleil or Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.

Access to Monaco by national road

The old national roads that provided road access to Monaco before the construction of the A8 have become popular tourist routes. The seaside road, known as the "basse corniche", is now known as the D6098 in France: it runs from Nice-Côte d'Azur airport along the Promenade des Anglais, Port Lympia and Cap-d'Ail, before crossing the border into Monaco at Boulevard Charles III. The former Route Nationale 7, known as the "Moyenne Corniche", passes through Cannes, Antibes and Nice before winding its way through Eze, the heights of Cap-d'Ail and Monaco, offering motorists magnificent sea views. Between Nice and Roquebrune, there is an even older road, the Grande Corniche, a superb tourist route overlooking the Mediterranean and winding through the Maures massif.