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Parking at Sacramento International Airport could soon cost as much as $28 per day, a $7 increase, under a proposal the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will consider Tuesday.
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A resolution to increase parking rates at the airport’s daily lots, economy lots and garages later this year is scheduled for a vote at Tuesday’s board meeting. If approved, the increases would take effect when the new six-story, 5,537-space parking garage opens, according to a county staff report.
The new garage at Terminal B, which cost about $290 million to build, is expected to open next month, a spokesperson said in June.
The “one-time market adjustment” would raise the 24-hour maximum rate from $21 to $28 for garage parking, $14 to $19 for daily lots and $12 to $14 for economy lots when the airport’s new parking garage opens later this year.
The current $21 maximum daily garage rate is about 34% less than the average downtown garage rate of $32 per day, the report said.
The resolution would also authorize annual $1 increases at those locations from 2028 to 2031. It would set maximum parking reservation rates at $34 per day in garages, $25 per day in daily lots and $20 per day in economy lots starting Jan. 1.
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The airport requested the higher rates because parking costs had not kept pace with inflation and were “significantly lower than other airports in California and local downtown parking options,” the report said.
Parking rates at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport are $25 per day for the Terminal A garage, $27 for the Terminal B garage and $19 for the economy lot and garage. The Reno-Tahoe International Airport charges $22 a day for long-term garage parking and $36 per day for short-term garage parking.
Without the proposed rate adjustment, parking revenue for fiscal year 2026-27 was projected at $83.3 million, excluding revenue from the new reservation system, according to the county staff report. With the higher rates, the airport projected $99.4 million in parking revenue that year and up to $140 million in additional parking revenue over five years.
Airport officials said the additional revenue would help pay for new parking amenities, as well as rising debt and operating costs. The airport issued $390 million in new debt to build the second parking garage, and parking-related debt service was projected to increase 196% by fiscal year 2030-31 compared with fiscal year 2024-25.
Parking is the airport’s largest single source of non-airline revenue, accounting for an estimated 58% of non-airline revenue and 29% of total operating revenue in fiscal year 2024-25, according to the report.
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