Welcome to Cologne!

Arrival by car to aquanale

Ten motorways are linked with the motorway ring around Cologne. This leads you directly to the fair grounds without being held up by crossroads or traffic lights. For the smart way, we recommend the Koelnmesse app NUNAV Navigation .

Parking

Please follow the signs to the designated exhibitor and visitor car parks. The car parks are optimally connected to our entrances.

NUNAV guides you directly to your free trade fair parking space.

Searching for a parking space ends - the new online parking ticket

Save time on your journey to the trade fair – purchase your parking pass conveniently in the online ticket shop. If you enter your license plate details when purchasing your pass, the barrier will open automatically when you enter and exit, without you having to do anything else. If you don’t want to enter your license plate details or you’re going to be traveling in a different vehicle, simply use the QR code on your pass to enter the car park. The QR code will then automatically link to your license plate.

Buy a parking ticket

NUNAV - the smart way to Koelnmesse.

Intelligently guided for the most congestion-free journey possible to your trade fair parking space. The NUNAV navigation app is available free of charge for Android and iOS.

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Sixt car rental

Sixt – the car rental partner of Koelnmesse. Find out more about our car rental partner Sixt.

Sixt car rental

Cologne traffic calendar

Events, fairs and construction sites - here you get an overview about the current traffic situation in Cologne.

Cologne traffic calendar

Note regarding the environmental zone.

Most of Cologne’s metrolpolitan area is a low emission zone. Vehicles entering this zone must carry a green sticker (emission group 4). The entrance to Koelnmesse, however, is also secured for all vehicles without stickers. Please find the entrance route without sticker in the arrival map (.pdf) .

Trade fair participants from Germany and abroad with the correspondingly equipped vehicles can receive the environmental stickers from www.umwelt-plakette.de e (only in German language).