Parking & Stopping at a glance
Here you learn where you may park and stop, which signs apply and how to use a parking disc. Each part has its own explanation page.
- Parking rules: you may park wherever it is not forbidden. Outside a built-up area (bebouwde kom) you do not park on the carriageway of a priority road. Never park within 5 metres of a junction.
- Getting in and out: letting someone get in or out straight away is stopping. If you wait, make a call or set your navigation, you are parking, even while sitting in the car.
- Loading and unloading: this counts as stopping, so it is allowed under a no-parking ban. It is not allowed at sign E2, along a solid yellow line or at a bus stop.
- Parking signs: sign E1 with one red slash only bans parking. Sign E2 with a red cross also bans stopping. A blue sign with a P tells you who the space is for.
- Stopping: never allowed on a cycle lane, on a junction, on a zebra crossing and within 5 metres of it, in a tunnel or on the motorway (autosnelweg).
- Setting a parking disc: set it to your arrival time, rounded up to the next full or half hour. If you arrive at 13:12, you set it to 13:30.
Yellow kerb lines are explained in yellow lines on the road. Which light to leave on when parking in the dark is in parking lights.
