Newark Liberty charges the same daily maximum for a bay reserved for travelers with restricted mobility as it charges for its most distant lot. Both stop at $35 a day on the airport’s own rate tables, read in September 2026. One space sits beside the terminal and the other is a shuttle ride away, and the ceiling is identical.
Everything else on that page is ordinary airport pricing: four bands, a lower column for booking ahead and a meter that counts in half hours. The accessible rate is the line worth knowing before the drive, because it is the only place where the airport prices convenience at nothing.
The $35 that appears twice
A separate table on the parking page is headed “Parking for travelers with restricted mobility”. It bills half-hour increments at the standard rate and then caps the day: “24-hour maximum, $35”. The P6 Economy lot, the farthest option Newark Liberty sells, is $35 drive-up and as low as $30 prebooked.
Set that against the short-term lots at Terminals B and C, where the same 24 hours reach $70, per Newark Liberty. A driver who needs an accessible space next to the door pays half what a driver parking beside them pays, and the same amount as somebody who accepted a shuttle. No reason for the choice appears on the page, and no prebook rate is published for the accessible bays, so the $30 that P6 offers has no equivalent.
What a day costs at each Newark lot
| Lot | Drive-up, 24-hour maximum | Prebooked, at least 3 hours ahead | How you reach the terminal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short term Parking A | $65 | as low as $50 | Walk, Terminal A |
| Short term Parking B and C | $70 | as low as $50 | Walk, Terminals B and C |
| Daily Parking, garage P4 | $60 | as low as $40 | AirTrain |
| P6 Economy | $35 | as low as $30 | Free shuttle bus |
| Restricted mobility | $35 | not published | Terminal |
Newark Liberty lists the short-term meter at $5.25 for the first half hour and $10.50 for every additional half hour once a stay passes three hours, and it charges that identically in front of Terminal A and in front of Terminals B and C. Only the ceiling moves, at $65 against $70.
The P4 garage undercuts both on the meter as well as on the day. EWR publishes $4.25 for the first half hour there and $8.50 for each one after it, against a ceiling of $60. What it charges instead is a connection, because that garage is reached from a platform rather than from the pavement.
That $5 gap between Terminal A and its neighbours, as the airport lists them, only exists for drivers who pay at the exit. Booking ahead flattens it, because the airport quotes the same “as low as $50 per day” for both short-term lots. The cheaper terminal is a rounding error next to the decision that actually moves the bill.
Booking ahead is worth most where parking costs most
Run the four published pairs and the pattern is plain. The airport prices Terminals B and C at $70 against $50, the P4 garage at $60 against $40, Terminal A at $65 against $50, and P6 at $35 against $30. The gap is widest exactly where parking is dearest, and it nearly vanishes at the lot that was cheap to begin with.
The condition attached is a clock. EWR heads that column “Prebook Rate (Book At Least 3 Hours In Advance)”, so a traveler who decides in the car pays the drive-up figure whichever lot they pick. Across a week that difference is $140 at Terminals B and C and $35 at the economy lot, arithmetic on the same two columns the airport publishes.
It also changes which lot is worth the shuttle. Booked ahead, per the published pairs, the distance between the terminal curb and P6 is worth $20 a day. Paid at the exit, the same distance is worth $35, which is the entire economy rate. Anyone comparing this with the cost of not driving at all should price the drive-up figure, because that is what an unplanned departure pays.
Read as proportions, the same four pairs say something the dollars hide. Booking ahead takes 29% off the ceiling at Terminals B and C, 33% off the P4 garage and 14% off P6, on the airport’s own figures. The lot with the smallest saving in dollars is also the one that rewards planning least in percentage terms, which is why the economy lot is the one place where deciding late costs almost nothing.
The shuttle is what the economy rate buys
The P6 shuttle is documented by Newark Liberty in unusually complete terms: a free courtesy bus between P6 and Terminals A, B and C, arriving “approximately every 10 minutes”, running “24 hours, 7 days”. Three of the four things a driver needs are there. A day in that lot is $35 against $50 prebooked at either short-term lot, so the bus is what the $15 difference buys.
The fourth is the ride itself, and no journey time appears anywhere on the page. A frequency is not a duration, so the published margin for a P6 departure is up to 10 minutes of waiting plus an unstated drive. The garage at P4 has the same shape of gap: the AirTrain is named as the connection and never timed.
Two rules that bill you after you have gone
The first is E-ZPass. Newark Liberty accepts E-ZPass Plus at the exit for drivers registered on that site with a linked credit card, in the lanes marked with purple signs.
Payment then splits by size: a fee under $20 comes out of the account balance, and a fee over $20 goes to the linked card. A single overnight at Terminals B and C, at $70, lands on the second side of that line, and so does a day in the P4 garage at $60. A half hour at $5.25 stays comfortably on the first side.
The second is the 30-day rule, and it is the one that ends with a tow truck. Drivers staying longer than 30 days are required to register the vehicle with ABM Parking by phone on arrival, per the airport, at +1 (973) 961-6421 or +1 (973) 961-6422, and states that “unregistered vehicles parked for more than 30 days will be towed”. Nothing on the page suggests a warning first. Thirty days at the economy rate Newark Liberty lists, $35 a day, is a $1,050 bill before anyone mentions a tow truck. The same month parked at Terminal A, at $65 a day, would be $1,950.
Electric cars have their own footnote. Chargers sit in Lot P4 at ground level and in Parking A on levels 4 and 5, run by ChargePoint and PowerFlex, and the parking fee is collected separately when you exit. Charging at Newark does not buy the space it happens in.
Where to wait if you are collecting somebody
A free Cell Phone Lot solves the other half of the problem. EWR describes it as “less than five minutes away from all terminals” and “adjacent to the P4 Daily Parking garage”. It is the only free waiting option published for the airport, and it costs nothing whether the flight lands early or two hours late. The same wait inside the P4 garage starts at $4.25 for the first half hour and runs to a $60 ceiling.
The alternative is written as a prohibition rather than a rate. Parking “is not permitted in front of or alongside any of our terminals”, the curbs are reserved for active pick-ups and drop-offs, and an unattended vehicle “will be towed at the owner’s expense”. Short-term parking at Terminals B and C would bill that wait against a $70 ceiling instead. A driver arriving before the bags do has one legal place to sit, and the trip out of the airport starts after that wait, not during it.
- An accessible bay caps at $35 for 24 hours, the same as the far economy lot and half the $70 ceiling at Terminals B and C.
- Book at least 3 hours ahead or that column does not apply. It is worth $20 a day at P4 and at Terminals B and C.
- Terminal A is $5 a day cheaper than B and C on drive-up, and identical once prebooked.
- Budget the P6 shuttle as up to 10 minutes of waiting plus a ride the airport does not time.
- Over 30 days, call ABM Parking on arrival at +1 (973) 961-6421 or the car is towed.
- Wait in the free Cell Phone Lot by the P4 garage. The terminal curb is not a waiting area at any price.
Editorial note: prices, schedules, and policies on this page were checked against the official sources named in the text in September 2026. Treat every figure here as a reference point rather than a quote: operators change fares and hours without notice, and many vary by season, by event and by demand. Confirm the current price with the operator before you travel. Westchester Ride does not sell tickets or parking and does not accept payment to rank any operator.
Common questions about parking at Newark Airport
Six answers, each taken from what Newark Liberty published in September 2026.
The 24-hour maximum is $70 in short-term parking at Terminals B and C, $65 at Terminal A, $60 in the P4 garage and $35 at the P6 Economy lot. Prebooking at least 3 hours ahead lowers each of those.
The P6 Economy lot, at $35 drive-up or as low as $30 prebooked, reached on a free shuttle that Newark Liberty publishes as arriving roughly every 10 minutes and running 24 hours a day. No shuttle journey time is published anywhere.
Twenty dollars a day at the P4 garage and at the short-term lots for Terminals B and C, $15 at Terminal A and $5 at P6, per the airport’s published pairs. That column applies only to bookings made at least 3 hours before arrival.
Yes, and it has its own table. Half-hour increments are billed at the standard rate and the day is capped at $35, the same ceiling as the distant P6 lot. No prebook price is published for those spaces.
Only after registering. The airport tells drivers staying more than 30 days to register the vehicle with ABM Parking on arrival, at +1 (973) 961-6421 or +1 (973) 961-6422, and says unregistered vehicles left beyond 30 days will be towed.
In the free Cell Phone Lot, which the airport places less than five minutes from all terminals and next to the P4 Daily Parking garage. Waiting at the curb is prohibited and an unattended car is towed at the owner’s expense.
The cheapest space and the accessible one cost the same here, which is either generous or careless depending on which you need.
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