How current is the occupancy?

Most cities report every minute, some less often. Every response carries the time of measurement, so the age of the value is always visible.

Which licence applies?

That depends on the supplying city, usually DL-DE Zero 2.0 or DL-DE BY 2.0. Every response carries the specific licence and the required attribution in its meta block.

Why is my city missing?

Because it does not publish occupancy data openly yet. The endpoint then honestly reports that this data type is not covered for the city instead of faking an empty dataset.

Does this include on-street parking?

Usually not. Cities report managed car parks and parking sites with counting technology. On-street parking is rarely measured and therefore mostly not part of the data.

Car park API for German cities with live occupancy

Name: Car parks and occupancy per German city
Creator: InfraNode
License: https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0

Car parks and parking sites with current occupancy through a free, key-free REST API. The sources are the open data of each city, unified into one common format across all cities.

What data you get

Per city the endpoint returns parking facilities with name, capacity, free and occupied spaces, occupancy in percent, opening status, coordinates and the time of measurement. Cities report in very different raw formats, yet the response is structured identically everywhere.

Facility name
Capacity
Free spaces
Occupied spaces
Occupancy in percent
Opening status
Coordinates
Time of measurement

Source: Municipal open data portals and Mobilithek. License: DL-DE Zero 2.0 and DL-DE BY 2.0, depending on the city. Source, license URL and timestamp are included in every API response in the meta and attribution block.

How to fetch it

A simple GET request, no key and no sign-up:

curl https://infranode.dev/api/v1/cities/koeln/parking

For another city, just put the slug from the cities list into the path.

No key, no sign-up, free.

Open quickstart Endpoint reference

Covered cities

Cities with an open parking data interface. The list grows as more cities open their occupancy data.

Currently available for 31 cities. The exact per-city status is on the coverage and status page, the full list of cities on the cities overview.

Straight to the largest covered cities: Berlin , Hamburg , München , Köln , Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart , Düsseldorf , Dortmund , Essen , Bremen .

Endpoint reference

All parameters, fields and response examples are in the API reference for this endpoint. InfraNode is also available as an MCP server for AI assistants.

Frequently asked questions

How current is the occupancy?: Most cities report every minute, some less often. Every response carries the time of measurement, so the age of the value is always visible.
Which licence applies?: That depends on the supplying city, usually DL-DE Zero 2.0 or DL-DE BY 2.0. Every response carries the specific licence and the required attribution in its meta block.
Why is my city missing?: Because it does not publish occupancy data openly yet. The endpoint then honestly reports that this data type is not covered for the city instead of faking an empty dataset.
Does this include on-street parking?: Usually not. Cities report managed car parks and parking sites with counting technology. On-street parking is rarely measured and therefore mostly not part of the data.