Darwin car rentals

Yes, automatic cars are available in most car renting companies in Darwin. As cars with manual transmission are more common in many countries, you might have to pay an additional charge for renting an automatic car.

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An Intermediate car rental in Darwin costs C$ 44 per day, on average.

A Standard car rental in Darwin costs C$ 40 per day, on average.

A Compact car rental in Darwin costs C$ 47 per day, on average.

While SUVs and four-wheel drives are not necessary for driving in Darwin and throughout Northern Territory, they do make good car rentals in Darwin. You can load up and SUV with equipment for outdoor recreation and bountiful picnic supplies, and Darwin has myriad opportunities and settings for both. You can also fill up the back of your SUV as you collect souvenirs throughout town. In an SUV, you can more easily handle unsealed roads, which are roads of dirt and or gravel, which can be common outside of the city.

For those driving car rentals in Darwin, you will find maximum speed limits in the city of 81 mph, but keep in mind that this will be posted as 130 km/hr. You will find this speed on some sections of Victoria, Stuart, Barkly, and Arnhem highways. Most of the city streets have a speed limit of 31 mph, which is posted as 50 km/h.

If you need to park Darwin car rentals overnight, free overnight parking is allowed in open-air parking lots daily from 5 pm to 8 am. In downtown Darwin, there is inexpensive all-day parking in the Chinatown Car Park, the Westlane Car Park, State Square Car Park, and Wood/Daly Car Park. Metered street parking is usually free after 5 pm, and before that expect to pay an hourly rate.