香港泊車王 — a Hong Kong parking app with live vacancies, rates and mall discounts
Circling a full car park is a Hong Kong tradition nobody enjoys. This shows the live vacancy count before you commit to the ramp.
You find out it is full after you are inside
Driving in Hong Kong, the parking decision is made blind. You pick a car park based on where you are going, drive there, queue at the barrier, and discover the situation only once turning around has become difficult. Meanwhile the rate is on a sign you read at the entrance, and the mall's discount rules are on a poster by the lift, if anywhere.
香港泊車王 puts all three in front of you first: how many spaces are free right now, what it costs per hour, and whether the mall gives parking back against a spend.
What the Hong Kong parking app shows
Live availability, real costs, and the parts of parking that come after arriving.
- Live vacancy counts. Space availability from the government's car park information and vacancy API, on a card and on a map with clustered markers, so a district's options are visible together rather than one at a time.
- Hourly and monthly rates. Structured rate data rather than a single number, so the hourly figure and the monthly figure are both there when comparing a regular parking spot.
- Mall parking discounts. A separate screen for the redemption rules — spend this much, get this much parking back. This information is genuinely hard to find and directly changes where it makes sense to park.
- A fee calculator. Work out what a stay will actually cost before committing, which matters where rates step up sharply after the first hours.
- A parking session timer. Start a session when you park and the app tracks it, with a floating control to return to it and a history of previous sessions. It is the answer to walking back unsure how long you have been away.
- Vacancy alerts. Favourite a car park and the app can notify you when it goes from no spaces to spaces available — checked in the background, with the alert firing on the transition rather than repeatedly.
- EV charging and navigation. Car parks with EV charging are flagged, and any car park can be handed to your navigation app.
Government data, plus the parts it leaves out
Vacancy and rate information comes from Hong Kong's open data. What the government feed does not include is the practical layer around parking — the mall discount schemes, the fee arithmetic, the session tracking — and that is where the app adds its own work rather than reformatting a dataset.
Location is used to find car parks near you, and favourites and session history stay on the device. There is no account.
Who it is for
Anyone who drives in Hong Kong regularly, particularly to unfamiliar districts where the parking options are unknown and the streets do not forgive a wrong turn.
Shoppers who could be claiming a parking discount and are not, because the redemption rules were never in front of them. Drivers with an EV who need charging as well as a space. And people who park in the same handful of places every week, for whom the vacancy alert and favourites remove the guesswork entirely.
Data source and disclaimer
Car park vacancy and rate data comes from the Hong Kong government's open data platform. Mall discount information is compiled separately and can change without notice — confirm at the redemption counter. The app is unofficial and not affiliated with any car park operator or mall.
Vacancy counts are as current as the upstream feed, which is not instantaneous; a car park showing a few free spaces may fill before you arrive. The app is free and ad-supported.
Frequently asked questions
Are the vacancy numbers live? They come from the government's car park vacancy open data feed, which updates frequently but not instantaneously. Treat a low count as an indication, not a reservation.
Does it show hourly rates? Yes — structured hourly and monthly rates, plus a calculator for working out what a specific stay will actually cost.
Can it tell me about mall parking discounts? Yes. A dedicated screen lists the redemption rules: how much you need to spend for how much parking back.
Can it alert me when a car park has space? Yes. Favourite a car park and the app checks in the background, notifying you when it goes from no spaces to spaces available.
Does it track how long I have been parked? Yes. Start a session when you park and the app tracks it, with a floating control to return to it and a history of past sessions.