Mostar's kerb has been paid since the city council voted for it in June 2021: Zone I, the centre, is 1.50 KM an hour with a two-hour limit. The lots closest to the Stari Most are private, and drivers keep reporting one price at the gate and another at the exit.
I'd park once at the Bulevar lot by the Franciscan church, agree the price before walking off and keep the ticket. For a quick look at the bridge, two hours in Zone I is enough.
Parking in Mostar: Zone I at 1.50 KM, private lots in euros
1. Check your plates count as insurance
Bosnia's Green Card bureau accepts the plates of 38 countries under the Multilateral Agreement, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Croatia. If your country needs a Green Card, it must be on paper; an electronic one isn't accepted. Without valid cover you buy frontier insurance at the border crossing, not online, priced by vehicle and length of stay.
2. Pay motorway tolls at the exit booth
There's no vignette in Bosnia, ADAC says. You take a ticket on the motorway and pay when you leave, in KM or euros, with change in KM; cards are often accepted. I couldn't open a car price list for the sections near Mostar, so keep both currencies handy.
3. Keep Zone I to two hours
The 2021 council decision set Zone I at 1.50 KM an hour, two hours max, Zone II at 1 KM and Zone III at 0.50 KM. A 2026 guide gives the same hourly prices and adds day tickets of 20 KM in Zone I and 15 KM in Zone II. The operator, JP Mostar Parking, had no price list I could open, so treat the day tickets as unconfirmed. Two hours at the kerb is 3 KM, about €1.53.
4. Pay through the MoParking app
MoParking, published by UNIS Telekom for JP Mostar Parking, sells hourly and daily tickets paid by SMS or card. The same 2026 guide says the SMS codes only work on Bosnian networks (BH Telecom, HT Eronet, m:tel) and that the machines take KM coins only, no euros and no change. With a foreign SIM, I'd use the app and a card.
5. Agree the price at private lots
The Bulevar lot is five to ten minutes' walk from the bridge, according to visitors. Campers on two review sites report €10 a day, paid at the café next door, with the gate open roughly 06:00–22:00. Several in 2026 say they were asked for €15 or €20. At 19.56 KM, €10 is about the same as the Zone I day ticket the guide quotes. Farther out, the Kralja Tvrtka lot (40 spaces, 15–20 minutes on foot) has years of reviews about the price changing between arrival and exit.
Mostar's trap isn't the price. It's the missing receipt.
Car parks worth knowing
| Car park | Price | EV |
|---|---|---|
| Parking Bulevar (private, by the Franciscan church)Franjevačka / Kneza Mihajla Viševića Humskog, five to ten minutes' walk from the Stari Most according to visitors. Gate roughly 06:00–22:00 (reports) | Not published by the operator. Campers on park4night and campercontact report €10 a day, a second €10 for the night, paid at the café; some 2026 visitors were asked for €15–20. Height not published. | None published. |
| Kralja Tvrtka lotKralja Tvrtka 14; 40 spaces; 15–20 minutes on foot to the bridge, according to visitors | Not published. One 2026 guide says JP Mostar Parking began charging here on 16 June 2026. Visitor reports range from 1 to 4 KM an hour, with many complaints of a higher price at exit. Height not published. | None published. |
| Katedrala lot (JP Mostar Parking)By the Catholic cathedral. Hours given by one guide as 07:00–21:00 | Unconfirmed: one 2026 guide lists the operator's special lots (Ćiro, Stadion, Federalna, Katedrala) at 1.50 KM an hour, 10 KM a day. The operator's own price list could not be opened. Height not published. | None published. |
| Hrvatskih branitelja lot, behind City HallBehind the City Hall; charged since 13 March 2026, according to one guide | Not published. Height not published. | None published. |
The cheapest way to park, by how long you stay
| If you stay | Cheapest | Cost | Watch out |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours in the centre | Kerb, Zone I (centre) | 3 KM ≈ €1.5 | 1.50 KM an hour with a two-hour limit, set by the city council's decision of 2 June 2021 and repeated in a 2026 guide. Zone II is 1 KM, Zone III 0.50 KM. Pay with the MoParking app; SMS codes reportedly work only on Bosnian SIMs and machines take KM coins only. |
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Towed in Mostar: Mostar has tow trucks but no published tariff
1. Assume the pauk is real
JP Mostar Parking bought tow trucks ("pauk") worth more than 500,000 KM in 2010, Radio Free Europe reported. I found no published tow fee, car pound address or opening hours.
2. Expect a day ticket first
One 2026 guide says an unpaid stay is billed as a daily ticket of 10, 15 or 20 KM, and that debts on foreign plates go to a collection agency that writes to your home address. The 2021 decision set misdemeanour fines at 50 to 500 KM. The lowest, 50 KM (€25.56), is two and a half days at the Bulevar lot's reported rate.
3. Ring the hire company first
With no pound to look up, I'd call the hire company and the hotel before anything else, then the police on 122 (the number the Australian government's travel advice gives). Keep the rental agreement and the paper Green Card in the glovebox.
Where nothing is published, a ticket in the window is the only defence I'd trust.
If your car has disappeared
- Who took it
- JP "Mostar Parking" d.o.o., the city's parking company, enforces paid parking. It bought tow trucks ("pauk") worth more than 500,000 KM in 2010, Radio Free Europe reported. It publishes no tow tariff I could find
- Phone
- Police (Bosnia and Herzegovina), to ask whether the car was towed; no towing line is published: 122
Green Card bureau of Bosnia and Herzegovina (insurance questions, accident reporting); not a towing line: +387 33 610 744 - Collect it at
- No car pound address is published.
- Hours
- Not published.
- What it costs
- Tow and storage fees: not published. Misdemeanour fines under the 2021 decision: 50–500 KM. One 2026 guide says an unpaid stay is charged as a daily ticket of 10, 15 or 20 KM, and debts on foreign plates go to a collection agency.
- Bring
- Nothing is listed for visitors. I would bring my passport, driving licence, the registration document, the rental agreement and the paper Green Card, and ring the hire company first.
EV charging in Mostar: Mostar's three listed plugs, no price
1. Arrive with a full battery
Electromaps lists just three public sites in Mostar: Hotel Eden with two points, Hotel Mepas with one, and the SPARK Business Park. It gives no power or price for any of them.
2. Don't plan around a fast charger
A February 2024 report counted about 350 chargers in the whole country, only 15 of them fast, and quoted plans for more fast chargers in Mostar. I found nothing newer saying they'd opened.
3. Ask the hotel before you book
A hotel charger is often for guests only. I'd ask in writing whether it works and what it costs.
I'd charge in Croatia and treat Mostar's plugs as a bonus.
Where to charge
- Hotel Eden — 2 points — Hotel Eden. Listed by Electromaps; power, price and whether non-guests can use it are not published
- Hotel Mepas — 1 point — Hotel Mepas, street level. Listed by Electromaps; no power or price published
- SPARK Business Park — SPARK Business Park, street level. Listed by Electromaps; number of points unclear, no power or price published
Free parking in Mostar: Free parking by the bridge? Not that I found
1. Budget for the night at Bulevar
One campercontact reviewer calls the Bulevar lot free overnight; park4night reviewers in 2026 paid €10 for the night on top of €10 for the day. With reports split, I'd budget €20 for a day and a night.
2. Don't look for park and ride
I found no park and ride or shuttle into the old town, official or private. The paid lots on the edge are the system.
3. Get the hotel's price in writing
No hotel I checked says on its own website that parking is free. Booking sites tick "parking", which isn't the same thing, so I'd get the price in the confirmation email.
In Mostar, the cheapest legal parking is two hours of Zone I.
Free or nearly-free spots
No free car park by the bridge that I could confirm
Every lot near the Stari Most that visitors report is paid. I found no official park and ride or shuttle into the old town. The cheapest legal option is two hours in Zone I: 3 KM.
Overnight at Bulevar: reports disagree
One campercontact reviewer calls the night free; park4night reviewers in 2026 paid €10 for the night on top of €10 for the day. Budget €20.
Hotels with free parking: none found
No hotel I checked says on its own website that parking is free. Get the price in the booking confirmation.
⚠ The small print on 'free' parking
- Bosnia accepts the plates of 38 countries (UK, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Croatia among them) as proof of insurance. A Green Card, where needed, must be on paper; electronic copies are refused. Frontier insurance is sold only at the border.
- Croatian hire cars: Enterprise at Split Airport charges a 60 EUR cross-border fee per hire for Bosnia and Herzegovina and says you must tell the branch before leaving; unauthorised crossings breach the contract. Check that Bosnia isn't crossed out on your Green Card.
- Since 10 April 2026 the EU's Entry/Exit System registers non-EU passports (British and Chinese included) with a face scan and fingerprints at the Croatian border. EU, EEA and Swiss citizens are exempt.
- From Dubrovnik the Mostar road crosses the border once each way at Doljani/Metković. Between Split and Dubrovnik the Pelješac Bridge, opened in July 2022, lets you skip the Neum corridor and its two Bosnian crossings, Klek and Zaton Doli.
- No vignette in Bosnia: motorways are tolled by ticket, paid at the exit in KM or euros (change in KM). I could not open a car price list for the sections near Mostar.
- Private lots near the bridge are the most complained-about part of a Mostar visit on park4night: a price quoted at the gate and a higher one at the exit. Agree the total first and get a ticket.
- JP Mostar Parking's own website could not be opened for this page on 2 November 2026; the day-ticket prices, SMS codes and lot hours here come from one 2026 guide and are marked unconfirmed.
Take these places with you
Every place on this page as a file you can keep — car parks with their prices, the free and park-and-ride spots, the chargers and the pound.