Helsinki's parking inspectors monitor compliance with parking rules. Their work promotes traffic safety and the smooth flow of traffic. The inspectors also provide advice on parking-related matters.
Report an illegally parked vehicle
Please notify the Urban Environment Division's customer service about cars that have been parked illegally on streets, market squares and green areas by using the online feedback form. You can also give us a phone call to make the report.
If an illegally parked vehicle poses a traffic hazard, it is advisable to contact the customer service by telephone.
Additional information
If a vehicle is illegally parked on private property, the property manager or maintenance company should contact our customer service, so we can make plans to move it. Other people in positions of trust, such as the property's owner, managing director, real estate company chair or housing company chair can also report illegally parked vehicles.
Links
Use the online service
Call us
Urban Environment Division, Customer Services
On-call Parking Enforcement service
Fill in a form
Make a request
Parking tips
These tips will help you avoid the most common parking mistakes in Helsinki.
Load and unload your car in the lane
When loading or unloading your car, stop the car in the lane. You can stop in a lane even if parking is prohibited, if the car is only stopped for a short time and you are near the car.
You can stop for a short time to load or unload on the pavement or cycle path, if
- stopping in the lane is prohibited
- there is no other suitable place nearby
- you leave at least a space of one metre for pedestrians and cyclists
- you stay near the car
- you move the car to a place where it does not interfere with acces to the pavement or cycle path, if necessary.
The same rules apply to stopping the car when you pick up or drop off a passenger.
Get a permit for moving
If you need to park your van or car on the lane or pavement when moving house, you will need permission from the City to use the street area.
Read more about street permits
Park far enough from the pedestrian crossing even if you are parking against the direction of traffic
If you park against the direction of traffic, remember to leave a five-metre space between your car and a pedestrian crossing or junction. Please remember that you cannot park against the direction of traffic on a one-way street.
Do not park your car in pedestrian lanes or cycle paths
You can easily avoid parking fines by remembering that parking is prohibited on pavements, footpaths, cycle paths and cycle lanes.
Charging points are for charging – not parking
Only keep your car at an electric vehicle charging point while the battery is charging.
Only park in specially marked spaces in no-parking zones
Several districts in Helsinki have a regional parking ban. These areas are marked on the entrance streets of the area with road signs.
The no-parking zone covers the entire area, including cross streets. The parking ban is valid until the road sign for ‘end of no-parking zone’.
In a no-parking zone, you may only leave your vehicle in the parking spaces indicated by a ‘parking’ road sign.
In Helsinki, no-parking zones are located in the following areas, for example:
- Jätkäsaari
- Kalasatama
- Länsi-Pasila
- Malminkartano
- Vuosaari.
There are also a number of smaller no-parking zones, such as
- Olympiastadioninaukio square
- turning points.
Do you know the meaning of the additional panels on road signs?
Additional panels below road signs specify e.g. the area of effect and the period of validity.
