Parking Blues - Zurich

Circling Zurich city blocks for a free spot? Parking Blues points you to where legal street parking is most likely, so you spend less time hunting and more time arriving.

Zurich doesn't publish live occupancy for on-street spaces, so no app can honestly tell you a spot is free. Parking Blues does the next best thing: it finds the densest clusters of legal blue-zone and white-zone parking near you, steers you toward them, and learns as you drive. Pass a spot without stopping and it assumes it's taken and moves on to the next one. Run out of nearby options and it widens the search for you.

WHAT YOU GET
• A map that opens straight to parking around you, no setup screens
• Blue zones (free with a parking disc), white zones (metered), or both, switch any time
• Clusters of spaces drawn on the map, so you see where parking is concentrated at a glance
• Automatic pass-by detection: drive past a spot and the app moves on to the next best one
• Automatic search widening when nearby spots run out
• Search here: pan the map anywhere in Zurich and browse parking away from where you are, handy for planning a trip
• Recenter that follows you again with one tap
• Parked here: save your spot from the car, and the app shows where you left it
• Expiry reminders for blue-zone time limits, so you move your car before the disc runs out
• Estimated hourly cost for white zones

IN THE CAR
Parking Blues works on Android Auto and Android Automotive OS, with a big, glanceable map and a handful of simple controls built for use behind the wheel. Pick your zone type, tap Parked here when you stop, and pick up the details on your phone afterwards.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Coverage is the city of Zurich.
• Blue-zone time limits follow the standard Zurich rules (Monday to Saturday, with the disc set to the next half hour). White-zone prices are an estimate, not the posted tariff.
• Parking spaces are mapped from City of Zurich open data and can be out of date. Always check the posted signs.
• Parking Blues is an independent app and is not affiliated with the City of Zurich.

Less circling, more arriving.