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While some French cities have taken steps to prevent motorists from paying parking fines during confinement, others have done nothing. It is therefore not uncommon to see small papers accumulate on the windshield of certain vehicles parked in paid zones. When your city is not affected by a local decree, do not forget to pay the bill, otherwise the fine is assured and confinement or not, you will have to pay!

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Census of cities where parking is free

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Surface parking is free in many French towns under certain conditions. There should be no abuse and parking should not be inconvenient. If you are parked in front of a restricted access (rescue, delivery, etc.) or on a location that is usually unauthorized, the penalty remains the same as in a period of non-containment. For inconvenient parking, a fixed fine of 135 euros is always applied as well as an impoundment of the vehicle if necessary. For information, applications like Paylib regularly update the list of cities that offer free parking in France.

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of cities that have made surface parking free for motorists during confinement:

  • Aix en Provence
  • Ajaccio
  • Alfortville
  • Angers
  • Annecy
  • Argenteuil
  • Arras
  • In prison
  • Also
  • Aurillac
  • Avignon
  • Bastia
  • Bayeux
  • Bayonne
  • Belfort Besancon
  • Bischheim
  • Blois
  • Bordeaux
  • Boulogne-Billancourt
  • Bourg-en-Bresse
  • Bourges
  • Brest
  • Caen
  • Cahors
  • Caluire-et-Bake
  • Cannes
  • Châlons
  • Chambéry
  • Charenton-le-Pont
  • Châteauroux
  • Chaville
  • Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
  • Chinon
  • Clermont-Ferrand
  • Clichy Colombes
  • Courbevoie
  • Dieppe
  • Dijon
  • Dinard
  • Dole
  • Draguignan
  • Dunkerque
  • Elbeuf
  • Epernay
  • Epinal
  • Evreux
  • Granville
  • Gagny
  • Grenoble
  • Guyancourt
  • Hendaye
  • Hyères
  • Issy-les-Moulineaux
  • Ivry-sur-Seine
  • Joinville-le-Pont
  • La Ciotat
  • Laval
  • Le Bourget
  • Le Havre
  • The Kremlin-Bicêtre
  • Le Mans
  • The Pré-Saint-Gervais
  • The Raincy
  • Little
  • Limoges
  • Lyon
  • Mâcon
  • Manosque
  • Marnes-la-Coquette
  • Marseille
  • Martigues
  • Meaux
  • Melun
  • Metz
  • Meudon
  • Millau
  • Mons
  • Montargis
  • Montbéliard
  • Mont-de-Marsan
  • Montélimar
  • Montreuil
  • Montrouge
  • Mons
  • Nancy
  • Nanterre
  • Nantes
  • Narbonne
  • Nice
  • Niort
  • Noisy-le-Grand
  • Orléans
  • Oullins
  • Paris
  • Pau
  • Perpignan
  • Pézenas
  • Poitiers
  • Puteaux
  • Reims
  • Rennes
  • Riom
  • Rodez
  • Romans-sur-Isère
  • Roubaix Rouen
  • Rueil-Malmaison
  • Saint Etienne
  • Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • Saint-Laurent-du-Var
  • Saint-Lo
  • Saint Nazaire
  • Schiltigheim
  • Sevres
  • Strasbourg
  • Suresnes
  • Tarbes
  • Thonon-les-Bains
  • Toulon
  • Toulouse
  • Tours
  • Troyes
  • Vaison-la-Romaine
  • Valence
  • Valenciennes
  • Vanves
  • Versailles
  • Ville-d’Avray
  • Villefranche
  • Villejuif
  • Villeurbanne
  • Vincennes

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