A parking space can now be booked via the parking operator’s web application or by scanning a QR code right at the entrance to the car park, with no need to install a separate mobile app.
According to representatives of Aldi, the idea addresses a problem familiar to many city residents: without a fixed parking space, coming home in the evening often turns into a search for a free spot on the surrounding streets. To help ease the shortage of parking spaces, the two companies are proposing to make their car parks available to local residents, since they otherwise stand empty at night.
How the New Parking System Works
The project covers six Aldi branches in the Bavarian capital, in the districts of Berg am Laim, Neuperlach, Trudering, Feldmoching-Hasenbergl, Schwabing-Freimann and Harden.
By day, the supermarket car parks remain reserved exclusively for shoppers, while from evening until morning they pass into use by residents of the neighbouring buildings.
The public parking spaces are available:
- Monday to Saturday: from 18:30 to 8:30;
- Sunday: around the clock.
When booking a parking space, drivers must provide their vehicle’s licence plate number: the system checks the plate of each incoming car against the booking database at the entrance and only admits vehicles for which a space has been confirmed.
How Much a Parking Space Costs
Parking rates are structured on a sliding scale – the longer the booking period, the lower the price per night:
- one night – 5 euros;
- one week – 25 euros;
- one month (30 nights) – 50 euros.
In total, the project includes 81 parking spaces across the six Munich districts: Berg am Laim (13), Neuperlach (15), Trudering (14), Feldmoching-Hasenbergl (10), Schwabing-Freimann (17) and Harden (12).
What Comes Next
Aldi Süd and Wemolo intend to assess how much demand there is for this new night-parking format and, based on the results, decide whether to extend the project to other stores.
Evening and night use of supermarket car parks is nothing new for Bavaria: this year, a similar practice has already been introduced at Aldi branches in Augsburg, Kaufbeuren, Kempten, Grainau and Oberau. In Augsburg, where the project started back in February, residents of neighbouring areas already have access to 110 parking spaces across four sites, while an earlier pilot project of the same kind was launched in Krefeld in November 2025.
Wemolo, a Munich-based company that has been operating in the market since 2019, is developing similar shared-parking models in Berlin, Hamburg and Innsbruck as well.
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