How Much Is Parking at Miami Cruise Port (2026 Data)

The same parking space at PortMiami can cost $25¹ or $35 a day, depending on which garage serves your ship's terminal. Parking is charged per day or part of a day, so a 7-night cruise usually means 8 days in the garage: $200² in the county's main garages and $280 at Garages AA and B.² Lose the ticket and the bill can reach $275¹.

Miami sits in the middle of the US range, which runs from $17³ a day in Jacksonville to $45⁴ a night in Manhattan. Behind the prices is a fast-growing business: Galveston's port now collects $137² in parking fees for every cruise car it parks, and national parking prices have outpaced inflation since 1998, though not since 2019.⁵

How much is parking at Miami cruise port?

Most PortMiami garages charge $25¹ per vehicle, per space, per day for long-term parking, which means any stay that includes an overnight. That rate covers Garages C, D, F and G and Surface Lot E. Garage AA, next to Terminal AA, charges $35¹ a day, and Garage B, which serves Norwegian Cruise Line at Terminal B, has charged $35 since January 1, 2025.¹

Short visits are cheaper. Dropping off or picking up without an overnight costs $10¹ a day in the main garages and $20 in Garage AA. Garage A, which serves Royal Caribbean at Terminal A, is booked online and has no posted daily rate.¹

What a week-long cruise costs to park in Miami

Because a partial day counts as a full day, a 7-night sailing parked from embarkation morning to disembarkation morning is billed for 8 days. That is $200² at the $25 rate and $280² at the $35 rate, a difference of $80 for the same week.² Crew members pay a weekly rate of $50¹, and special events cost no less than $15.¹

The lost-ticket charge is capped at $275¹, which the port describes as equal to an 11-day cruise at the $25 rate. Keep the ticket with your travel documents, not in the car.¹

Oversized vehicles, disabled permits and payment

• RVs and vans with trailers park in Surface Lot E at $25¹ per space per day, or $50 when they need two spaces.
• A disabled parking permit gets two hours free, and cars with a Florida disabled-veteran plate park free when the veteran is in the car.¹
• Payment is by cash or credit card; debit cards are not accepted.¹

Miami is mid-table. One Florida port charges $17 a day, and New York's terminals charge $45 a night.

How much does it cost to park at a cruise terminal?

Across 12 US cruise terminals with a posted or published standard rate, parking runs from $17³ a day at JAXPORT to $45⁴ a night at the Manhattan and Brooklyn terminals, 2.65 times² as much, comparing a day with a night of up to 24 hours. Port Canaveral, Port Everglades and PortMiami's main garages charge $20 to $25.⁶⁷

How much is parking at the Port Canaveral cruise port?

Port Canaveral charges $20⁶ a day plus tax, for cars and RVs alike, and the daily rate covers both the day you arrive and the day you return. An 8-day stay for a 7-night cruise comes to $160² before tax, $40 less than PortMiami's main garages.²

How much is parking at the Fort Lauderdale cruise port?

Port Everglades caps standard parking at $20⁷ a day and oversized vehicles at $25. Short stays for drop-offs cost $4⁷ for up to an hour and $8 for up to five hours.⁷

How much is parking at the Tampa cruise port?

Port Tampa Bay posts no daily rate on its parking page. It offers self parking and valet parking on site, an online prepay option and a $20¹⁵ valet upgrade fee.¹⁵ One cruise line tells passengers to expect approximately $15¹⁶ a day, subject to change, so treat that figure as an estimate.

How much is parking at the Jacksonville cruise port?

JAXPORT charges $17³ a day with tax included, or $68 for four days and $85 for five. Oversized RVs pay $34 a day. The terminal takes credit cards only and no longer accepts prepaid reservations.³

How much is parking at the Galveston cruise port?

Galveston has no flat posted rate; parking is sold through a reservation system. Published prices for a 7-day cruise are $185¹⁷ in Lots 1 and 2 and $223 in the Terminal 16 garage, before added fees.¹⁷ That works out to about $26.43² and $31.86 a day.²

How much is parking at the New Orleans cruise port?

New Orleans sells cruise parking as packages. At the Erato Street garage, used by Carnival, four days cost $120¹¹, seven days $180 and 14 days $350; the Julia Street garage charges the same for four, five and seven days. Reserving online adds a $1-a-day convenience fee.¹¹ Longer stays cost less per day: $30² on the 4-day package, $25 on the 14-day one.²

How much is parking at the Baltimore cruise port?

Baltimore raised its cruise parking rate to $25¹⁰ a day on April 1, 2026, from $20, an increase of 25%².¹⁰ RVs and campers are listed at $40¹⁸ a night under 30 feet and $50 over 30 feet, on a schedule that still shows cars at $20, so these RV rates may predate the April 2026 increase.¹⁸ Other ports have raised prices too: PortMiami's Garage B moved to $35 a day on January 1, 2025, and Manhattan's $45 nightly rate took effect on April 1, 2023.¹⁴

How much is parking at the Cape Liberty cruise port?

Standard vehicles pay about $30¹² a day at Cape Liberty in Bayonne, $60 for an RV or mini bus and $90 for a full-size bus. Eight days come to $240², well below the $315¹⁴ that 7 nights cost at the Manhattan or Brooklyn terminals.²

How much to park at the Long Beach cruise terminal?

The Long Beach terminal garage charges about $23⁹ a day; the first 30 minutes are free, up to an hour costs $4 and one to two hours $8.⁹ Across the harbor, the Port of Los Angeles charges $2 an hour after a free first hour, up to $23⁸ a day for a standard vehicle and $40 for oversized ones.

Why do ports keep raising the price? Look at how much parking now earns them.

What cruise parking earns the ports

Port Canaveral and PortMiami each handled about 8.6 million passengers in fiscal 2025: 8,602,047¹⁹ multi-day passengers at Port Canaveral and 8,564,225²⁰ at PortMiami. The counts are not strictly comparable, because ports use different fiscal years and some count every embarkation and disembarkation.

Parking matters far more to some ports than to others. In 2025 it made up 35.6%² of Galveston's operating revenue and 24.2% of Port Canaveral's, but only 5.2% of PortMiami's.² Port Everglades' $13.8 million²⁵ of parking revenue in fiscal 2024 was 6.4% of its total revenue that year.

Cruise money is concentrated where ships sail from. Cruise activity supported $75,496 million²⁷ of US economic output in 2024, and Florida accounted for $30,189 million of it, followed by California at $7,496 million and Texas at $6,553 million.²⁷

Port Canaveral: parking revenue quadrupled since 2013

Port Canaveral's parking revenue rose from $12.3 million²⁸ in fiscal 2013 to $52.7 million¹⁹ in fiscal 2025, 4.27 times² as much. It collapsed to $1.9 million in fiscal 2021, when few ships sailed, then passed its pre-pandemic level within a year.¹⁹

Passenger numbers explain much of the rise. Multi-day cruise passengers reached 8,602,047¹⁹ in fiscal 2025, 86%² more than the 4,634,154 of fiscal 2019 and 13.3%² more than a year earlier.¹⁹

Parking revenue grew faster than traffic. Divided by multi-day passengers, it rose from $4.23² per passenger in fiscal 2019 to $6.13 in fiscal 2025.² This is a ratio of two totals, not a price anyone pays: not every passenger drives, and one car often carries several.

More ships also call. Multi-day cruise calls rose from 686¹⁹ in fiscal 2019 to 1,038 in fiscal 2025, about 8,287² passengers per call in the latest year.²

Parking is now the port's second-largest revenue source after wharfage¹⁹. It made up 24.2%² of operating revenue in fiscal 2025, up from 18.4% in fiscal 2019.²

PortMiami: more passengers, flat parking income

PortMiami handled 8,564,225²⁰ passengers in fiscal 2025, 4.02%² more than the 8,233,056 of fiscal 2024 and about 25.5%² more than in fiscal 2019.²⁶

Parking income did not follow. The county's seaport books recorded $15.8 million²⁶ of parking revenue in fiscal 2025, down 16.5%² from $18.9 million a year earlier and close to the $14.7 million of fiscal 2015.²⁶

Per passenger, PortMiami's parking income fell from $2.99² in fiscal 2015 to $1.84 in fiscal 2025, the opposite of Port Canaveral's trend.² Parking was 5.2%² of the port's $306.1 million operating revenue in fiscal 2025.²⁶

Galveston: parking is the port's biggest revenue line

Galveston's parking fees rose from $3.2 million³¹ in 2010 to $31.1 million²² in 2025, 3.83 times² the 2019 level.²

The port also counts the cars. Vehicles parked for cruises reached 226,533²² in 2025, 1.99 times² the 114,042 of 2019.²²

Revenue grew faster than the car count. Parking fees per vehicle parked went from $54.96² in 2010 and $71.19 in 2019 to $137.08 in 2025, 1.93 times² the 2019 figure.² The fees line may include some non-cruise parking, so read it as an average, not a posted price.

Passenger counts need care here. From 2024 the port reports passenger movements, counting both embarkations and disembarkations, so the 2024 and 2025 totals of 3,401,455²² and 3,561,353 cannot be set against earlier years.²² The table keeps the series with that break marked.

Parking fees of $31.1 million²² were the largest single line of Galveston's $87.3 million operating revenue in 2025, just ahead of the $29.6 million passenger charge.²²

Port Everglades and Los Angeles: passengers back above pre-pandemic levels

Port Everglades counted 4,773,873²¹ cruise passengers in fiscal 2025 on preliminary figures, 15.7%² more than in fiscal 2024.²¹ In fiscal 2024 its cruise-guest parking revenue rose 46%²⁵, and the port opened a new 750-space surface lot.²⁵

The Port of Los Angeles set its own record in 2025 with 1,617,320²³ cruise passengers, 45.3%² more than in 2024 and above the previous high of 1,218,739 in 2005.²³ Traffic slumped in the early 2010s and has boomed since, so the long-run trend is almost flat even though recent years set records.

Parking prices versus inflation

Nationally, parking fees and tolls rose 170.8%² from 1998 to 2025, while consumer prices overall rose 97.5%.⁵³² Since 2019 the order has flipped: parking fees rose 20.1% and all prices 25.9%. This is a national index of what urban consumers pay for parking and tolls, not a cruise-port index.

Set against all consumer prices, parking gained ground over the long run and lost some in the last few years.²

Parking is only the first bill; the ride and the tours come next.

Getting to the port without a car

If you fly in, a ride replaces the parking bill. Non-surge UberX quotes pulled in August 2026 ranged from $12³³ to $16 for the 4 miles from Fort Lauderdale's airport to Port Everglades up to $95 to $125 for the 71 miles from Houston's Bush airport to Galveston.³³

How much is an Uber from the Seattle airport to the cruise port?

An UberX from Seattle-Tacoma airport to Pier 91, about 15 miles, was quoted at $34³³ to $45 before surge pricing, and a taxi at about $55.³³ The quotes cover Pier 91 only. If you drive instead, Pier 91 sells 7-day parking for $187¹³ to $329, and Pier 66 charges about $33 a day.¹³

How much is a taxi from LAX to the cruise port?

A taxi from LAX to the San Pedro cruise terminal, about 20 miles, costs about $75³³, while UberX was quoted at $38 to $52.³³ The taxi is about $23² more than the top of the UberX range. Parking at the terminal itself costs up to $23 a day.⁸

How much are cruise excursions?

This section covers how many cruisers book shore excursions: 70%³⁴ of people who cruised in the previous 12 months went on a shore excursion, in a poll of 1,884 recent cruisers taken in December 2025.³⁴

Baby Boomers were the keenest. 81%³⁴ of Baby Boomers went on an excursion, against 63% of Gen Z, a gap of 18 percentage points².³⁴ Budget for at least one tour per sailing if you travel like most cruisers do.

What it adds up to for a week at sea

For a 7-night cruise parked for 8 days, the port you choose moves the parking bill by more than $100. JAXPORT comes to $136², Port Canaveral and Port Everglades $160, PortMiami's main garages $200 and its Garages AA and B $280.²

Riding instead of driving can cost less for a short trip from the airport. At the midpoint of the UberX quotes, the ride from Miami's airport to PortMiami and back comes to about $41², against $200 of parking in the main garages.² The balance shifts with distance: from Orlando's airport to Port Canaveral the midpoint is $70² each way.³³

Conclusions

1. In Miami, the garage matters as much as the port. The same 8-day stay costs $200 in PortMiami's main garages and $280 in Garages AA and B, an $80 gap, while Port Canaveral's $160 is only $40 below Miami's main rate.²
2. Parking has become a core business for some cruise ports. It brought in 35.6% of Galveston's operating revenue and 24.2% of Port Canaveral's in 2025, against 5.2% at PortMiami.²
3. Per car, parking income climbed faster than prices in general. Galveston's parking fees per vehicle parked grew 1.93 times from 2019 to 2025, while national parking fees and tolls rose 20.1% and all consumer prices 25.9%.²
4. Posted rates vary almost threefold across the country. JAXPORT's $17 a day and Port Canaveral's $20 sit well below the $45 a night charged at the New York terminals.³⁶⁴
5. Riding from the airport can beat parking on price. A round trip by UberX between Miami's airport and PortMiami comes to about $41 at the quote midpoint, a fraction of a week's garage bill.²