Monthly car rental

If you need a car for weeks rather than days in London, our monthly car rental keeps the vehicle with you and delivers it to your address or to any London airport. We have 24 cars on this page, from £22 a day, with monthly rates from £462. The delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

What monthly car rental in London includes and how the booking is agreed

Monthly car rental with Rent-Trip starts with a car brought to you: we hand over a full tank and a clean vehicle, and we agree the delivery address, date and time with you before the booking is fixed. Twenty-four cars sit behind this page, and every one of them is right-hand drive for UK roads.

Where we deliver a monthly rental car

• Any address locally: home, workplace or hotel — we bring the car to the address you give us.
• Rail and city hubs: St Pancras & King's Cross, Euston, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo, Canary Wharf, Wembley, ExCeL London and Mayfair.
• Heathrow (LHR), Gatwick (LGW), Stansted (STN), Luton (LTN), London City (LCY) and Southend (SEN): all six airports are inside our delivery area.
• Outside these places: arranged case by case and not promised on the site.

If your plans sit outside the places above, ask the manager first — a month-long hire is easier to plan when the hand-over point is settled in advance. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed, so confirm them early rather than on the morning of collection. In our experience, the bookings that run smoothly are the ones where the address and the date are confirmed a few days ahead rather than the night before.

How the monthly booking is fixed with a manager

The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — that conversation is what turns an enquiry into a confirmed month. Bring the practical details to it: where the car should arrive, when you need it, and how long you intend to keep it. A month is a long commitment, and the manager can match you to a car from the 24 on this page once the dates are firm — including a hybrid if you want one, since the Toyota Yaris is the single hybrid on this page. The deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discounts are set out in the rental agreement, so nothing about money is left to guesswork at hand-over.

Fuel works full-to-full: the car arrives with a full tank and comes back full, with any shortfall and a refuelling service fee handled as the rental agreement sets out. No other fuel option is offered, so budget for a fill-up before return.

The monthly car rental in London fleet by class and model

Twenty-four cars from 16 brands make up the fleet on this page, split into four classes: Economy, Crossover, Comfort and SUV. The smallest is a 4-seat hatchback, the largest a 5-seat SUV, and every car is right-hand drive for UK roads. What follows is the class breakdown, the rates each class starts from, and the model-by-model specs behind them.

Classes and daily rates across the monthly fleet

A class "from" figure is the entry point into that class, not the ceiling of the page: the most expensive car here is the Renault Clio at £72 a day, and the cheapest are the Citroen C3 Aircross and Fiat 500 at £22. When you are budgeting a month, take the daily rate of the exact model you want and multiply by 21 — the class floor tells you where the range opens, not what your car will cost.

Petrol, hybrid, manual and automatic across the fleet

Twenty-three cars run on petrol and one — the Toyota Yaris — is a hybrid; 21 are manual and 3 automatic. Seating splits almost as sharply: 22 of the 24 are five-seat, with the four-seat pair being the Fiat 500 and the Hyundai i10. In our experience the automatic question decides more bookings than engine size, because three cars is a short list and they sit in different classes — the Yaris in Economy, the Seat Leon and the Kia Stonic elsewhere. If an automatic is a must, name it when you book rather than after the class is chosen.

Model specs behind the monthly range

Every vehicle is front-wheel drive, and the body count runs 13 hatchbacks, 9 crossovers, one estate and one SUV.

How the monthly rate for car rental in London is built

A long booking is priced off the daily rate of the car you pick, not off a separate monthly tariff. Two fixed multipliers do the work: weekly hire is the daily rate times six, a month is the daily rate times 21. So the figure for a month is predictable before you ever speak to a manager — you only need to know which car you want. Because the arithmetic is fixed rather than negotiated, a longer booking is the cheapest way to hold one car — and it lets you price a month from the daily rate alone, before any paperwork.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates

Monthly car rental in London starts from £462 — the daily rate of £22 multiplied by 21; weekly starts from £132, the same daily rate times six. The daily band across our 24 cars runs from £22 to £72, so the monthly figure moves between £462 and £1,512 depending on the model chosen. The multipliers never change: a Comfort car at £23 a day lands at £138 a week and £483 a month, while the SUV at £35 comes to £210 weekly and £735 monthly.

What the rental agreement sets out beyond the rate

The rental agreement carries the four items that decide the real total, and they are agreed when booking rather than published as figures.

• Deposit: the amount held against the car is stated in the rental agreement, not quoted in advance.
• Insurance excess: the sum you carry in the event of damage sits alongside the deposit in the same document.
• Delivery fees: bringing the car to your address is arranged with a manager, and any charge for it is written into the agreement.
• Discounts: any reduction applied to the booking is recorded there too, so the monthly figure you sign matches the one you were given.

Comparing two offers on the daily rate alone tells you very little — a lower rate with a heavier excess can cost more over a month than a higher one with a lighter excess. Ask for all four lines in writing before you commit, and read the excess as carefully as the rate. In our experience the fuel rule catches people out more often than the excess: the car leaves with a full tank and must come back full, otherwise the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement, and no pre-paid tank option exists.

Why the multiplier matters over a month

Thirty days at the daily rate of a £22 car would be £660; at the monthly multiplier the same car is £462. The gap widens with the price — the Renault Clio at £72 a day is £1,512 for a month, not £2,160. That is the whole reason a month is worth booking as a month rather than as four separate weeks: the multiplier applies once to the daily rate, so the saving is built into the structure and needs no code or campaign from Rent-Trip.

One practical note. Rates are quoted per day and the multiplier is applied to the car you actually choose, so switching class late changes the month accordingly — settle the model first, then the arithmetic follows.

Picking a car for monthly car rental in London

Monthly car rental in London is long enough for a car to stop being a novelty and start being a tool, so the class matters more than the badge on the bonnet. Our 24 cars sit in four classes — Economy, Crossover, Comfort and SUV — and the daily rate runs from £22 to £72. What changes between them is not speed but footprint, boot space and how much car you want to park repeatedly on the same street for thirty days.

Small hatchbacks for city driving on a monthly hire

Economy hatchbacks — 10 cars from £22 a day — are the cheapest way into a month, with the Fiat 500 at £22 at the bottom of the range. Kia Picanto, Kia Rio, Volkswagen Polo, Peugeot 208, Skoda Fabia, Ford Fiesta, Toyota Yaris, Renault Clio and Hyundai i10 fill out the same class, and the Fiat 500 and the i10 are the only four-seaters on the page. A 1.0-litre engine at 67–99 hp is not a compromise here: much of the city runs on signed 20 mph limits, and the Highway Code puts the default at 30 mph on lit roads where signs say nothing else. In our experience a narrow hatchback clears the parking bay that a Crossover circles twice and abandons — worth checking your usual street before you pick the bigger car.

Crossovers, estates and the SUV in the monthly range

Nine Crossovers from £22, one Estate — the Volkswagen Golf Estate at £31 — and one SUV, the Kia Sportage at £35, cover the larger end of the fleet. The Crossover class stretches from the Citroen C3 Aircross at £22 through the Peugeot 2008, MG ZS, Vauxhall Grandland, Kia Stonic, Jeep Avenger, Hyundai Kona and Nissan Juke up to the Vauxhall Mokka at £49, so the class label hides a wide spread of daily rates. The Golf Estate is the only body type with a full-length load bay, which matters if the month includes a house move or a run to the tip. The Sportage is the single SUV, 1.6 litres and 150 hp, and the only car here built for a family plus luggage on a motorway run.

• Seats: 22 of the 24 cars take five people; the Fiat 500 and Hyundai i10 take four, so a fifth passenger rules them out.
• Fuel: 23 cars run on petrol and the Toyota Yaris is the one hybrid; all are right-hand drive.
• Transmission: 21 cars are manual and 3 automatic — the Toyota Yaris, Seat Leon and Kia Stonic — which is the first thing to check if you have only ever driven an automatic.
• Comfort: four cars from £23, including the Seat Leon with an automatic box and the Cupra Leon at 150 hp.
• Delivery: the car reaches any address in the city or a London airport, agreed with a manager when you book.

Pick the class by the parking space you will use every night, not by the one long trip in the month. A bigger car picked for a single weekend away still has to be parked every day of the other twenty-nine, and any mid-rental swap is agreed with a manager, not assumed.

Driving a monthly rental car in London on UK rules

A month behind the wheel here means left-hand traffic, a right-hand-drive car and a set of charges that apply to the vehicle rather than to the trip. The rules below are the ones that catch drivers out over four weeks rather than four days.

Which London charges a monthly rental car meets

• Congestion Charge: £18 a day when paid on the day of travel or in advance, £21 when paid by midnight on the third day after; it runs 07:00–18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00–18:00 on Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays, and is not charged from 25 December to the New Year bank holiday inclusive.
• ULEZ: £12.50 a day for vehicles that do not meet the emission standard, charged 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except 25 December, across all 32 boroughs.
• Dartford Crossing (Dart Charge): £3.50 per crossing for cars, or £2.80 when paid in advance, usually 06:00–22:00 every day including weekends and holidays, payable by midnight the following day.
• Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels: £4.20 at peak — northbound 06:00–10:00 and southbound 16:00–19:00 on weekdays — and £1.55 off-peak with Auto Pay, from 6:00 to 22:00 on weekdays and all day at weekends.

Who pays road charges, tolls and penalty notices on a hired car is not fixed in advance. It is agreed when booking, and the rental agreement sets it out.

A full valid foreign licence is accepted for 12 months from your last entry into Great Britain. With a month on the road, check the vehicle against the TfL vehicle checker before the booking is fixed — a car that fails the ULEZ standard adds £12.50 for every day it is driven, which over 30 days matters more than the daily rate.

Speed limits, phones and seat belts on a month of driving

Urban roads in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland run at 30 mph (48 km/h) unless signs say otherwise, single carriageways at 60 mph (96 km/h), dual carriageways and motorways at 70 mph (112 km/h). Many signed zones here sit at 20 mph, so the sign wins over the default. Holding and using a phone, satnav or tablet is banned even at a red light — £200 and 6 penalty points, and a driver within 2 years of passing loses the licence; hands-free is allowed as long as the device does not block the view. Seat belts are compulsory where fitted, and children need a child seat until they reach 135 cm or turn 12, whichever comes first, with a fine up to £500. The drink-drive limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is 80 mg per 100 ml of blood, 35 µg per 100 ml of breath, 107 mg per 100 ml of urine.

Left-hand traffic and roundabouts

Traffic keeps to the left unless signs or markings say otherwise (Highway Code, rule 160), and a turn is taken closer to the left edge (rule 183). At roundabouts you give way to traffic approaching from the right (rule 185) and travel clockwise.

Fuel during a month of car rental in London

A month behind the wheel is mostly about the small running costs, not the hire itself. Every car on this page leaves with a full tank and comes back with a full tank — that is the only fuel arrangement we offer, and it is worth knowing before you plan your first fill-up.

How full-to-full works over a month

• Pick-up: the car is handed over clean and with a full tank, so the first thing you do is drive, not find a filling station.
• Return: bring it back full. If the tank is short, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Receipts: keep your last fill-up receipt — it is the simplest record of the level you returned the car at.
• No pre-paid tank: we do not sell a pre-purchased tank or a full-to-empty option, so there is no unused fuel to lose at the end of the month.

Unleaded is the fuel for 23 of the 24 cars here; the Toyota Yaris is the single hybrid, and it is also one of only three automatics on this page. At the pump, unleaded was recorded at £1.75 a litre and diesel at £1.99 on 19.10.2026 — the whole fleet runs on unleaded or hybrid, so the diesel figure is context rather than a cost you will meet. A month of mixed city driving on a 1.0-litre Kia Rio or Volkswagen Polo is where the fuel budget stays smallest, while the 1.6-litre Kia Sportage will ask for more per mile. Fill up away from the busiest forecourts and you notice the difference across 30 days — the same 1.0-litre engine that sips in town asks for more on a motorway run.

Mileage terms, the deposit, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discounts are all set out in the rental agreement — we do not quote them as figures here, because they are confirmed when booking. Read those four lines before you confirm: two offers with the same daily rate can differ sharply once mileage and excess are on the table. We agree the delivery address, date and time with a manager before the booking is fixed, and anything about the agreement itself is settled in the same conversation.

The rental agreement is what governs the month, and questions about it — mileage, excess, what happens if something goes wrong — go to a manager rather than to a call centre script. That is the practical reason Rent-Trip keeps the booking conversation with a person: a month is long enough that plans change, and the terms you agreed are the ones that apply. Check the tank level against the hand-over note on day one and again before return; it is the one number that follows the car for the whole month.

Trips beyond the city on monthly car rental in London

A month gives you the room to leave the city and come back without watching the clock. From London with Rent-Trip the classic day runs are Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, Brighton, Windsor, Canterbury, Stonehenge and the Cotswolds, with Cardiff & Wales and Edinburgh as longer overnight trips. Each has its own page, and the car you booked for the month is the same one you take out — no second hand-over, no re-booking.

• Oxford and Cambridge: about an hour to ninety minutes each way on the M40 and M11, easy as a single day out or an overnight.
• Bath and Stonehenge: the M4 west to Bath, the M3 and A303 to Stonehenge, best started before 07:00 to clear the M25 before the queue builds.
• Brighton and Canterbury: south and east on the M23 and M2, both comfortable there-and-back runs in a day.
• Windsor and the Cotswolds: Windsor is a short hop west; the Cotswolds need a full day or two because the lanes between villages are slow.
• Cardiff & Wales and Edinburgh: overnight territory — Edinburgh is a long motorway run north, so plan a stop.

Crossing to the continent is a question for the booking: the Eurotunnel puts you across in about 35 minutes from Folkestone, and whether the car may leave the country is agreed when booking.

Two things change once you leave the city. Fuel is the first: unleaded was £1.75 a litre and diesel £1.99 on 19.10.2026, so a long motorway run costs real money and a hybrid like the Toyota Yaris stretches a tank further. The second is the Dartford Crossing on the M25 — £3.50 per crossing for a car, or £2.80 if you pay in advance, payable by midnight the following day. If a crossing or a charge falls inside your month, how it is handled is agreed when booking, not assumed.

In our experience the monthly renters who get the most out of a long booking pick one big trip and two or three short ones rather than trying to tick off every name on the list. A Comfort estate such as the Volkswagen Golf Estate at £31 a day suits the motorway runs and swallows luggage; a Crossover handles the narrow Cotswolds lanes with less scraping. Book the long trip for a weekday and you avoid the weekend traffic on the M25 in both directions.