Four ways to leave a car at DJT, two meter speeds and four ceilings
President Donald J. Trump International Airport, formerly Palm Beach International (PBI), prices four parking products on two meters. Premium and Short-Term run $3 per 20 minutes, Long-Term and Economy $2. The daily maximums are $34, $21, $14 and $8, and each one arrives at a different hour.
DJT parking is four on-airport products priced between $8 and $34 per 24 hours, plus a free cell phone waiting lot at 2050 Belvedere Road. Palm Beach County renamed Palm Beach International Airport on 9 July 2026 under Chapter 2026-15, Laws of Florida, and the code on the ticket changed from PBI to DJT on 18 August 2026.
Its rate page gives an increment and a ceiling for each product and stops there. What it never prints is the ladder in between, which is where most airport parking decisions are actually made: the driver who leaves a car for three hours and the driver who leaves it for three days are looking at the same four lines and getting no help from them. Every figure below was read twice on 15 September 2026 from flydjt.org, with identical extracted text on both readings, and the ladder was then recomputed increment by increment.
| Way to leave a car at DJT | Meter the airport publishes | Maximum per 24 hours | Where the airport puts it | Payment the page lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Parking, outside Baggage Claim | $3 per 20 minutes or portion thereof | $34 maximum daily rate | drawn in the Surface Lot key of the airport parking map, in front of the terminal | self-payment by credit card or SunPass only, cashier at the Main Exit Plaza |
| Short-Term Parking, Levels 4 to 7 atop the terminal | $3 per 20 minutes or portion thereof | $21 maximum daily rate | garage, first parking entrances off James L. Turnage Boulevard | credit cards, cash and SunPass |
| Long-Term Parking, terminal access on Level 2 | $2 for every 20 minutes or portion thereof | $14 maximum daily rate | garage with a surface lot on each side of it on the airport parking map | credit cards, cash and SunPass |
| Economy Lot, second exit off the terminal loop | $2 for every 20 minutes or portion thereof | $8 maximum daily rate | surface lot, 5 minute walk to the terminal, shuttle from every bus stop | credit card, SunPass, cash only while a cashier is on duty |
| Cell Phone Waiting Lot at the Travel Plaza | free of charge | free of charge | southwest corner of Belvedere and Florida Mango Roads, 2050 Belvedere Road | no charge published |
| Flight Crew Parking | no rate published, application only | no rate published | past the Employee Parking signs after Florida Mango Road | not applicable to passengers |
Where Premium, Short-Term, Long-Term and the Economy Lot sit on the airport parking map
Three of the four products are within sight of the terminal doors and one is a shuttle ride away. A parking map linked from the rate page uses three keys, Parking Garage, Surface Lot and Terminal, and the way it colors the four products is not what their names suggest.
Short-Term is the garage stacked on the terminal itself, and the directions page puts it on Levels 4 to 7, steps from ticketing and departures. Long-Term is the separate garage with direct terminal access on Level 2, drawn on the map with a surface lot on either side. Premium, the dearest product at $34, is the one the map colors in the Surface Lot key, in a strip between the Long-Term garage and the terminal, and the rate page places it outside Baggage Claim. Economy, the fourth product, is the large surface area east of the terminal loop, reached by staying on the loop past the three garages and taking the second exit.
Access to all of it runs off James L. Turnage Boulevard. Drivers on I-95 take Exit 69 northbound and Exit 69B southbound, and the county puts the whole complex at 1000 James L. Turnage Blvd., West Palm Beach. The ground transportation picture around those garages, from the rental counters on Level 1 to the taxi and rideshare curbs, is laid out in our guide to getting in and out of DJT.
The DJT ladder recomputed increment by increment to the daily maximum
Because two products share the $3 meter and two share the $2 meter, the price of a short stop depends on which pair the driver picked, not on which of the four. The ceiling is what separates them, and it lands at a different clock time in each product: after four 20 minute increments at Economy, after seven at Short-Term and Long-Term, and during the twelfth at Premium.
| Time the car is left at DJT | Premium Parking | Short-Term Parking | Long-Term Parking | Economy Lot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 minutes | $3 | $3 | $2 | $2 |
| 1 hour | $9 | $9 | $6 | $6 |
| 1 hour 20 minutes | $12 | $12 | $8 | $8, the ceiling |
| 2 hours | $18 | $18 | $12 | $8 |
| 2 hours 20 minutes | $21 | $21, the ceiling | $14, the ceiling | $8 |
| 3 hours | $27 | $21 | $14 | $8 |
| 4 hours | $34, the ceiling | $21 | $14 | $8 |
| 24 hours | $34 | $21 | $14 | $8 |
Two readings of that ladder are worth the ink. A three hour stop costs $27 in Premium and $14 in Long-Term, a gap of $13 for a walk of a few hundred feet, and the $27 is not a ceiling at all: it is the meter still running. And the twelfth Premium increment would bill $36, which is why the $34 maximum bites somewhere between 3 hours 40 minutes and 4 hours, the only one of the four ceilings that does not land on a round increment.
Three days, seven days and fourteen days priced by the airport 24 hour rule
The rate page states that daily rates are calculated based on the time of lot entry, and its lost ticket line prices each 24 hours, or any part thereof, at the daily maximum. Applied to a trip that starts and ends at the same hour, that turns the four ceilings into four straight multiplications.
| Length of the trip | Premium at $34 | Short-Term at $21 | Long-Term at $14 | Economy at $8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 days | $102 | $63 | $42 | $24 |
| 7 days | $238 | $147 | $98 | $56 |
| 14 days | $476 | $294 | $196 | $112 |
For a week away the winner is the Economy Lot at $56, which is $42 under the Long-Term garage and $182 under Premium, and the criterion is simply that nothing else about the products changes with the length of the stay: the same 30 day limit, the same phone number, the same exit plaza. The nuance is the shuttle, and it is worth $42 to a traveler with three suitcases and a 6 a.m. flight.
For a stop of 80 minutes or less the winner is Long-Term, not Economy, because both run the same $2 meter and only one of them has a shuttle between the car and the door. For anything between 80 minutes and three hours the winner is Long-Term again, now on the ceiling: $14 against the $27 the Premium meter has reached by the third hour. Premium wins on one criterion only, the walk from the car to Baggage Claim, and it charges $20 a day more than Long-Term for it.
Set beside the three larger Florida airports in this corpus, $8 is an outlier. Tampa International Airport caps its Economy at $22 per 24 hours with the words Tax included, Miami International Airport caps its Economy Park and Ride at $12.00 per day plus a $0.35 convenience fee, and Orlando International Airport prices its three economy lots at $14 per 24-hour period. The details behind those numbers are in our breakdown of the Tampa garage ceilings and in the single meter that runs the Miami garages.
The 5 minute walk that beats the 10 to 15 minute wait for the Economy shuttle
Both halves of the Economy trade-off appear on the DJT rate page. The rate page describes the lot as on airport property and approximately a 5 minute walk to the terminal, with the walkway across from bus stop 5, and it tells arriving passengers that after they press the call button by the rental car bus curb the shuttle will typically arrive within 10 to 15 minutes.
On the outbound leg, a driver parked near bus stop 5 who can carry the bags is at the terminal before a shuttle would have reached the stop. On the return leg the arithmetic is the same and the luggage is heavier, which is what the call button is for: the parking office notifies the driver and the bus comes. The shuttle runs seven days a week and 24 hours from Sunday to Thursday, pauses on Friday between 1 and 3 a.m. and on Saturday between 1 and 4 a.m., and the number for help outside those hours is 561-471-7459.
Bus stop numbering matters more here than it looks. Accessible parking in the Economy Lot is at bus stops 6 and 7, at the south end, and the walkway to the terminal is at bus stop 5, so the accessible spaces and the walking route are not at the same stop.
Paying at DJT when the cashier has gone home and SunPass is not opted in
Payment is the one place where the four products genuinely differ in kind rather than in price. Short-Term and Long-Term take credit cards, cash and SunPass. Premium takes credit card or SunPass at self-payment and keeps a cashier at the Main Exit Plaza. Cash at the Economy Lot works only while a cashier is present, and the airport states there is no cashier between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
SunPass at DJT has a condition that lives on a different page: the travel tips page asks drivers to ensure the SunPass account is opted in for Airport Parking, which is a setting, not a transponder. The parking page then describes the mechanics, a dedicated lane at entry and another at the exit toll plaza, with the balance replenished from the card on file if the parking charge is larger than the funds available.
One clause has no equivalent at the other three airports in this corpus. DJT publishes that standard parking rates apply at all times, including periods of hurricane and tropical storm weather, and that SunPass customers pay standard parking rates at the airport even when Turnpike toll fees are suspended. The same paragraph asks people who are not taking a commercial flight to keep their cars out of the garages during hurricane conditions, with priority given to the flying public, law enforcement and emergency staff.
Accessible parking, disabled veteran plates and the $8 line at bus stops 6 and 7
A blue placard buys a space at DJT, not a price. DJT writes that accessible parking is available throughout the garages with applicable fees, and prices accessible parking in the Economy Lot with a blue hanging placard at $8 a day, which is the same $8 every other car pays there.
Free parking is narrower and the airport draws the line explicitly: it applies to vehicles displaying a Florida DV license plate, to vehicles with specialized equipment such as ramps, lifts or foot and hand controls, and to those displaying the State of Florida Toll Exemption Permit. Orlando International Airport runs a comparable DV rule and then carves out its surface lots, valet and reserved parking from it, as our product by product look at MCO parking sets out. DJT attaches no such carve-out to its own sentence.
What the DJT pages do not publish, and what the county rate schedule prices instead
Four absences are worth naming, because each one is a question the other Florida airports answer. None of the pages read here, the rate page, the directions page, the airport FAQ, the travel tips page or the airport parking map, carries a garage clearance in any notation: no feet, no inches, no prime and quote marks. Tampa International Airport publishes 6 feet 8 inches for its Short Term Garage, 7 feet 10 inches for Long Term and 8 feet on levels 2 to 6 of its Economy garage, with 13 feet on Level 1, so the driver of a tall van has four numbers in Tampa and none here.
Reservations are the second. The FAQ answers the question in three words and a period, stating that DJT does not take parking reservations and pointing to the four on-site lots instead. Miami International Airport sells reserved spaces in two garages with a $2.99 non-refundable fee, and Orlando International Airport sells a reserved space in Parking Garage C at $32 against the $24 the same garage charges at the barrier.
Electric vehicle charging is the third, and the answer is off airport property: the only charging stations the airport names anywhere are at the Travel Plaza that houses the cell phone waiting lot, alongside a Dunkin, a Mobil station, a car wash and flight information inside the 7-11. The fourth absence is a rate schedule. Palm Beach County does publish one for DJT, the 2026-2027 exhibit to the signatory airline agreement covering the fiscal year that runs from 1 October 2026, and it prices aircraft: $200.00 for each overnight use of a gate, $125.00 and $200.00 for narrow and wide body aircraft left overnight on the remote apron, and $50.00 and $80.00 for the same two on a transient stay of two hours or less. That exhibit also charges an airline $198.69 for each two hour use of a gate holdroom in Concourses B and C and $28.88 for two hours of a ticket counter, which is to say that two hours of a gate costs more than the $112 fourteen days of a car costs in the Economy Lot. No car appears in it.
Seven things on the DJT parking pages that change what the trip costs
- A car left over 30 days is considered abandoned and towed at the owner expense, and the airport asks anyone parking longer to call the parking office at (561) 471-7459 first. Orlando International Airport allows 90 days in an economy lot, so a snowbird itinerary that works there does not work here.
- Vehicles using more than one space, large trucks or anything towing a trailer, pay for each space used at the stated rate, and commercial vehicles and 5th wheel trailers are not allowed at all.
- Lots close temporarily when they reach capacity or for maintenance and construction, and the directions page sends drivers to flydjt.org and the airport social channels for status rather than promising a space.
- The terminal itself is closed from 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. according to the travel tips page, which is the hour the Economy cashier is also gone and the Friday and Saturday shuttle pauses fall.
- Curbside is not a cheap alternative to the meter: the airport prohibits vehicles from stopping or being left unattended at the departure and arrival curbs, and the free option it names for waiting is the cell phone lot at 2050 Belvedere Road.
- The lost ticket line is not a penalty in dollars but a rule: the daily maximum rate applies for each 24 hours or any part thereof, which for a week in Premium is the same $238 the ticket would have produced.
- The travel tips page asks drivers to photograph the space, floor and elevator bank before leaving, which in a garage that stacks Short-Term across Levels 4 to 7 is four floors of difference.
The name on the signs, the code on the ticket and the link that no longer reaches the rates
A driver heading to West Palm Beach in late 2026 is working with two names and two codes at once. Palm Beach County renamed the airport on 9 July 2026, its FAA identifier became DJT and its ICAO identifier KDJT the same day, and the IATA code that airlines and booking systems use changed from PBI to DJT on 18 August 2026 at the request of several airlines operating there.
Signage is the part that lags. The county states that updates to signage, branding and other materials take place in phases, beginning with digital platforms and temporary signage while permanent signage is designed and installed, and estimates the total cost of the change at approximately $5.5 million. The practical consequence at the garage entrances is that overhead signs and printed materials may not match each other, while the product names on them, Premium, Short-Term, Long-Term and Economy, have not changed at all.
The web address moved too, and not the way the airport first announced. The 9 July 2026 release said the airport website would continue to be pbia.org during the initial transition; as of 15 September 2026 pbia.org sends every visitor to flydjt.org, and the old parking bookmark, www.pbia.org/parking, ends on an error page rather than on the rates. The rates now live at flydjt.org/new-parking/, which is the only page on the airport 347 URL sitemap that prices a car.
Provenance of the DJT parking figures in this guide, page by page
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Parking rates usually change in January, shuttle fares and cruise line transfer prices change by season, and ship schedules change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel. No provider paid for placement here, and none can pay to appear. Where a booking link earns Lot and Gate a commission it is marked as sponsored and flagged in this line, and as of September 2026 no affiliate link is live anywhere on this site.
The four meters, the four ceilings, the shuttle hours, the lost ticket line, the 30 day rule, the disabled veteran rule, the oversized vehicle rule, the hurricane clause and the SunPass mechanics came from flydjt.org/new-parking/, read twice on 15 September 2026 with identical extracted text. The lot locations, the Levels 4 to 7 and Level 2 lines, the terminal loop instruction and the capacity closures came from flydjt.org/guide/directions/, also read twice that day. The reservation answer and the cell phone lot address came from flydjt.org/guide/faq/, read twice. The SunPass opt-in, the curbside rule and the 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. closure came from flydjt.org/guide/travel-tips/. Which products are drawn as garages and which as surface lots came from the airport parking map linked on the rate page. The name, identifiers and phased signage came from flydjt.org/about/name-change-faqs/ and from the airport release dated 9 July 2026. The aircraft fees came from the 2026-2027 rates and charges exhibit the county publishes for airlines. The Tampa, Miami and Orlando comparisons came from each airport own parking page, read in September 2026 for the three guides linked above.
DJT publishes four maximum daily rates: $34 at Premium, $21 at Short-Term, $14 at Long-Term and $8 at the Economy Lot. Below those ceilings the meter runs at $3 per 20 minutes at Premium and Short-Term and $2 per 20 minutes at Long-Term and Economy.
No. Its published FAQ states that DJT does not take parking reservations and points drivers to the four on-site lots instead. Miami International Airport sells reserved garage spaces with a $2.99 non-refundable fee and Orlando International Airport sells a reserved space in Parking Garage C at $32, so the arrangement differs by airport.
The Economy Lot, at $8 per 24 hours. Seven days works out at $56 there, against $98 in the Long-Term garage, $147 in Short-Term and $238 in Premium. The gap between Economy and Long-Term over a week is $42, and what it buys is the shuttle instead of a walk.
At the Travel Plaza, 2050 Belvedere Road, on the southwest corner of Belvedere and Florida Mango Roads. The route the airport publishes is Belvedere west from I-95, then left on Florida Mango, with the plaza immediately on the right. Waiting there is free, and the plaza has fuel, coffee and charging stations.
It runs seven days a week and 24 hours from Sunday to Thursday, pausing on Friday between 1 and 3 a.m. and on Saturday between 1 and 4 a.m. Press the call button at any bus stop in the lot, or by the rental car bus curb at the terminal, where it typically arrives within 10 to 15 minutes.
Short-Term and Long-Term take credit cards, cash and SunPass. Premium self-payment takes credit card or SunPass only, with a cashier at the Main Exit Plaza. The Economy Lot takes cash while a cashier is on duty, and the airport states there is no cashier between 1 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
A ceiling the airport prints and a ladder it leaves to the driver
Every number a DJT driver needs is published, and none of the arithmetic is. DJT gives an increment and a maximum for each of four products and lets the driver work out that the $2 meter at Long-Term and Economy is identical until the fourth increment, that the Premium ceiling is the only one that does not land on a whole increment, and that the choice between a garage and a shuttle is worth $42 over a week. Three days on those same rates cost $24 in the Economy Lot against $102 in Premium, a spread of $78 that no page on flydjt.org prints. The rate page is accurate and it is also four lines long.
Ceilings are what the four names are really describing at DJT, and only one of them describes a walk.