Meters are enforced on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Parking meters use color codes to show how long you can park in each spot:
- Yellow meters: 3‑hour parking limit, and the first 10 minutes are free.
- Gray meters: 3‑hour parking limit.
- Note: Gray meters in the Zumbro Market Lot have 2-hour time limits.
- Purple meters: 3‑hour parking limit.
- Green meters: No time limit.
Meters are not enforced on the following holidays:
- New Year's Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas Day
IMPORTANT NOTE: TIMES LISTED ARE MAXIMUM TIME ALLOWED
Per City Ord 11-6-34, a vehicle is unlawfully parked if it remains beyond the legal parking limit established for the limited parking zone.
Interactive (GIS) map instructions: This map application illustrates downtown Rochester metered parking spaces and parking restriction zones. Zoom into your area of interest to make the parking layer visible. Click on a parking space polygon to see the associated attributes (i.e. parking space ID, space type, location). Please note: parking information shown in this application is not a real-time representation. Spaces out of service temporarily (i.e. hours/days for maintenance) are not identified.
