What are the driving conditions like in Alberta?

Driving conditions in Alberta are ideal, even for first timers. If you're driving into the province from Montana, driving across the border is quick and easy. Alberta highways are not too busy, and signage is clear. Construction work is minimal along roadways and rarely causes long backups. Drive-by-wire technology has been introduced in Alberta, and the province is now among the first in North America with this technology. Across most of Alberta, you'll also find an additional lane that's dedicated as a passing lane for vehicles going faster than the speed limit, which makes it that much easier to pass slower traffic, if necessary. When you’re booking a car rental, you can choose the vehicle type depending on the season. In the summer months, you'll want a vehicle that's not prone to overheating in hot weather, whereas, in winter, you want a vehicle with good traction, since wintry weather can mean snow storms and icy roads.

What Alberta driving laws should I be aware of?

If you're over 18, have a valid driver’s license from your country of residence, and are legally allowed to drive rental vehicles in your home country, then it's usually as simple as providing your driver’s license upon rental and you'll be on your way. Other notable traffic laws you should be aware of include not passing on the right, no left turns or u-turns between certain hours, and a ban on texting while driving. In Alberta, and all of Canada, you drive on the right side of the road.

What type of documentation do I need to rent a car in Alberta?

The basic rental documents required for a rental are a valid driver’s license and major credit card. For those traveling from a country outside of Canada, an International Driver's License and passport may also be necessary to rent a car in Alberta. Some rental car companies will rent to drivers as young as 18 years of age, but rental rates for those under 25 may be steeper. There are also some car rental agencies that offer additional rental protection insurance to their clients, which acts as both rental car insurance and collision damage waiver (CDW) in one package. Other companies may have rental car coverage, but will require you to buy your own rental insurance separately.

Is it worthwhile to book a rental car in Alberta?

If you're planning a road trip in Alberta, a car rental is the best way to get around. Car rental companies will usually offer discounts on rental prices if you rent for multiple days consecutively, ensuring that you get a cheap car rental in Alberta. If you're going to be staying in just one area of the province, public transit may be an option to save money, but if you want to see as much of Alberta as possible, then cheap rental cars in Alberta are the best option.

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Hyundai Accent

or similar Compact

Up to 4 passengers

$10/day

25 Apr - 1 May

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Chevrolet Spark

or similar Economy

Up to 2 passengers

$13/day

24 Apr - 28 Apr

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Jeep Patriot

or similar Compact SUV

Up to 4 passengers

$13/day

24 Apr - 28 Apr

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Nissan Sylphy

or similar Intermediate

Up to 5 passengers

$15/day

30 Apr - 4 May

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Ford Fusion

or similar Standard

Up to 5 passengers

$17/day

24 Apr - 25 May

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Hyundai Kona

or similar Economy

Up to 2 passengers

5-door vehicles

$18/day

25 Apr - 2 May

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Kia Rio

or similar Economy

Up to 2 passengers

4-door vehicles

$18/day

25 Apr - 9 May

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Toyota Corolla

or similar Compact

Up to 4 passengers

$18/day

25 Apr - 2 May

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Hyundai Sonata

or similar Standard

Up to 5 passengers

$18/day

24 Apr - 25 May

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	Small cars	$32 - $98
	All Car Types	$37 - $117

The average price of a small car rental in Alberta is $55. The cheapest time to rent a small car in Alberta is in November. The price is 43% lower than the rest of the year at just $32 per day. A small car rental is typically 17% less expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta small car rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a medium car rental in Alberta is $58. The cheapest time to rent a medium car in Alberta is in April. The price is 52% lower than the rest of the year at just $28 per day. A medium car rental is typically 14% less expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta medium car rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a large car rental in Alberta is $73. The cheapest time to rent a large car in Alberta is in November. The price is 50% lower than the rest of the year at just $37 per day. A large car rental is typically 9% more expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta large car rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a SUV rental in Alberta is $74. The cheapest time to rent a SUV in Alberta is in April. The price is 55% lower than the rest of the year at just $34 per day. A SUV rental is typically 10% more expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta SUV rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a van rental in Alberta is $112. The cheapest time to rent a van in Alberta is in November. The price is 40% lower than the rest of the year at just $68 per day. A van rental is typically 41% more expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta van rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a pickup truck rental in Alberta is $90. The cheapest time to rent a pickup truck in Alberta is in February. The price is 48% lower than the rest of the year at just $47 per day. A pickup truck rental is typically 26% more expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta pickup truck rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a luxury car rental in Alberta is $93. The cheapest time to rent a luxury car in Alberta is in November. The price is 40% lower than the rest of the year at just $56 per day. A luxury car rental is typically 28% more expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car. Below are the best prices for Alberta luxury car rentals found on momondo in the past week.

The average price of a convertible rental in Alberta is $52. The cheapest time to rent a convertible in Alberta is in November. The price is 35% lower than the rest of the year at just $34 per day. A convertible rental is typically 23% less expensive than the average rental car in Alberta. The average price of a vehicle rental in Alberta can vary based on a number of factors including supply, popularity of the vehicle, and how far out you book your rental car.

Hyundai Accent

or similar Compact

Up to 4 passengers

$10/day

25 Apr - 1 May

See offer

Chevrolet Spark

or similar Economy

Up to 2 passengers

$13/day

24 Apr - 28 Apr

See offer

Hyundai Accent

or similar Economy

Up to 2 passengers

$18/day

25 Apr - 2 May

See offer

Rental cars insight and trends in Alberta

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What is the best rental car company in Alberta?

The best car rental company in Alberta is Alamo, which has a rating of 8.6/10 from 168 momondo users. Alamo has 4 locations in Alberta, including the city of Leduc.

What is the most popular type of car to rent in Alberta?

34% of momondo users prefer to rent SUV vehicles when visiting Alberta. You can expect daily rental prices for this type of car to be $88 on average. Rates might be different depending on what agency you rent your car from and what city you intend to visit. Keep in mind that there are also other types of rental cars available in Alberta if this one doesn’t suit your needs.

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Alamo

8.6

Very good

178 reviews•4 locations

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10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

Vehicle was perfect, clean and ready quickly. Drop off was quick and easy and customer service was wonderful!

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Our experience at the Calgary AB Airport with manager Swaran Hansi was excellent. We had a problem however it was addressed speedily and efficiently and respectfully, much to our satisfaction. We highly recommend this company. Don & Kathy Pawson

2.0

Poor|Aug 2023

Did not have a car, despite having a reservation

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Very efficient pick up and drop off. Car was very nice.

10.0

Wonderful|Jul 2023

No issues with Alamo

10.0

Wonderful|Jul 2023

Excellent vehicle and service from Alamo

1 out of 60

Enterprise Rent-A-Car

8.5

Very good

423 reviews•43 locations

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10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

Very nice staff, excellent service!

8.0

Very good|Aug 2023

Everything is good

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Pick up and drop off was super fast and efficient. The team at the westend were helpful. I would say the value for the rental was overpriced. I did need a rental due to my car breaking down just to get me and my family around the city and it cost a little over $1000 for a week and just 397 kilometres driven total for a car. That makes it around $2.52/kilometre. This was the main reason why I didn’t extend my rental and I sought out other solutions.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Excellent car. Excellent service. Personal attention. Flexibility.

10.0

Wonderful|Jul 2023

Wonderful, very nice car and wonderful people to work with

4.0

Mediocre|Jul 2023

Unfortunately the car was very old and the front classes was with many cracks and the break wasn’t good enough also the tires was old … I suggest the company to do major maintenance for the car

1 out of 141

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Avis

7.6

Good

293 reviews•21 locations

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2.0

Poor|Sep 2023

Service should be better

10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

Excellent service, great rate and a clean car

4.0

Mediocre|Sep 2023

The car was dirty and we didn’t get what we as for

10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

Good service and good car

10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

So easy, clean car and full of gas.

8.0

Very good|Aug 2023

It was more expensive than I had anticipated but they upgraded me to a bigger car.

1 out of 98

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Hertz

7.6

Good

350 reviews•18 locations

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10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

Car still had chezzies in back seat, overall very good.

2.0

Poor|Aug 2023

The customer service of HEFTZ company in Saskatoon told me that I will be charged $35/day for extending my car for two days. But they charged me for $835 for 2 days, which is like I am facing a fraud company. I am super disappointed with the mis-guidance of the company's agent (a lady). And when I noticed, I dropped the car and I explained the agent there, but he did not care at all. He finally said I will evaluate and will call you back at 4 PM to force me to leave. And he never called me and did not pick up the phone. He actually ditched me.

8.0

Very good|Aug 2023

The price doubled when I did the pickup of the vehicle and this is clearly due an unclear and intentioned hidding cost policy of Kayak. I will never book nothing else using Kayak. You cheat, you lie, you’re not true.

8.0

Very good|Aug 2023

Everything was great - nice vehicle, great help, easy to manage.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Great experience. We rented the car in one city and dropped off at another. It was seamless. The car ran well.

4.0

Mediocre|Aug 2023

Agent at pickup counter was not overly friendly and changed the type of car I had reserved. Secondly, they (Hertz), would not allow me to change pick up locations to make it more convenient for me, costing me an Uber ride. Lastly, they overcharged me and I'm still waiting for them to correct the error.

1 out of 117

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Thrifty

7.6

Good

106 reviews•8 locations

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2.0

Poor|Sep 2023

Pick up was a mess. Drop off was great! They don't answer the phone.

4.0

Mediocre|Sep 2023

I paid for a full to full vehicle. I was told at the desk they don’t offer this service and we needed to just return the car empty how we found It. This was disappointing, bearing in mind we don’t have any signal and couldn’t initially find a gas station, the counter staff couldn’t direct us to the nearest one.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Good customer service, I hope the rental price lower a little bit. Good new gas deal, paying ahead to not fill the car at gas stations , down side of it if you use less gas don’t get the money back.

2.0

Poor|Jul 2023

Nothing. We need a vehicle that the passenger seats folded into the floor like a dodge caravan. We booke dodge caravan but the substituted Kia Carnival which did not meet our needs. They also refused to accept the insurance purchased through your site. Please make your customers aware of these failures.

10.0

Wonderful|Jul 2023

Being unfamiliar with the car, we could have done with a little more instruction - eg… the SatNav from our phone and we couldn’t work out the transfer of music from the phone.

2.0

Poor|Jul 2023

This experience is enough for me to remember to never use thrifty again. First of all, my pickup time was listed as 4pm. We got held up at customs so I called the pickup office at 4:03 to let them know we would be there very soon but there was no answer. Called multiple times and could not get ahold of someone. As we were about to get into a taxi to go to their location I see somewhere that their listed closing time is 4pm. So we get out of the taxi and I call customer service to verify before I haul myself and my family out to their office. I spoke to a customer service rep who them put me on hold for 20 minutes!!!! When they returned to the line it was a completely different representative who I had to repeat everything to. She began checking for other rental options but was unable to find anything. She did tell me my rental was available for 24 hours so we could go there when they opened at 7am. Only problem is that we had not planned to stay in town! We had planned to drive 4 hours to our hotel, so we were left trying to rearrange our plans as well as paying for a hotel room. The following morning I took an Uber to the pickup location and told them about not being able to pickup our vehicle yesterday because our pickup time was their closing time. The rep says, “oh I was here until 5pm”. Ok, that’s great, why didn’t you pickup the phone then?!? Whatever, I got the vehicle and right away noticed an OVERWHELMING soap smell. Like it smelled like they had grated an entire bar or zest in the car. I took the car and figured I just needed to air it out. So the more time passed we realized that they had been trying to cover up the smell of smoke. So the soapy smell went away and for the whole rest of our trip the car reeked of smoke. We had a Kia forte which we thought was kind of noisy, maybe it’s just the car I don’t know but gas efficiency seemed to be really good. That’s everything. I will be writing to thrifty customer service to see if they’ll credit me a day of car rental as well as losing my one night at the hotel we paid for. I’ll update on the results here.

1 out of 36

Budget

7.1

Good

266 reviews•28 locations

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2.0

Poor|Sep 2023

So wait in line was horrible. I was given a Toyota Corolla, which that would have been OK but the whole front windshield had a crack from one end of the windshield to the other. There were also a lot of pits and holes in the front windshield. I should have returned the car When I saw the windshield. I should’ve never driven it out of the lot, but I was so exhausted from standing in line. I just wanted to get out of the airport.

10.0

Wonderful|Sep 2023

The service was great. The only thing is that the car they had for us had a long crack across the windshield. I refused the car and they provided us a SUV instead which was the only other car they had at that moment and we had to pay 70$ more for the week. The rest were perfect.

2.0

Poor|Sep 2023

The drop off staff was better than pick up staff. Dealing with pick up staff was hell

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

Well organized

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

all was good but location price too high

2.0

Poor|Aug 2023

I was quoted a price online and the price jumped huge upon pickup

1 out of 89

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Driving Force

7.8

Good

66 reviews•9 locations

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10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2023

excellent counter person

6.0

Okay|Oct 2022

Should not charge $25 to drop off, at a different location IN THE SAME CITY

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

Best experience ever at a car rental.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

Having two employees offering to drive us back to the airport and then refusing a gratuity as ‘it’s part of the service’ was a pleasant surprise. It was the same young fellow that came back out to the car upon our arrival to program out GPS. Overdelivering never gets old!

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

They switched me out for an even better vehicle when the air conditioning in the first one functioned poorly, very thoughtful and proud of their strong reputation.

10.0

Wonderful|Jun 2022

Driving force is amazing company for car rentals, very timely response and amazing customer service and wide variety of cars, easy accessible location. Would definetly go with them again.

1 out of 22

Dollar

7.3

Good

51 reviews•4 locations

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Recent reviews

2.0

Poor|Aug 2022

We waited in line at the Calgary airport for almost 2 hours. None of the other companies had a line. The price was better than the other companies, but I would have gladly paid more rather than stand in line for 2 hours.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

Big line up for pick up. Took about an hour.

2.0

Poor|Aug 2022

They give me wrong address

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

Tanvir was very helpful at drop off. Had a small issue with wheel imbalance during our rental and Tanvir offered a discomfort to compensate for our trouble which was very generous. Will use Dollar again.

10.0

Wonderful|Aug 2022

Location was quite easy to reach. Both pick up and drop off were efficient. Car was great

6.0

Okay|Jul 2022

Had to wait close to two hours before the car rented was available. Need to hire more clerks at the front desk.

1 out of 17

Car rental in Alberta

Learn everything there is to know about renting a car in Alberta so you can be properly prepared for your next trip

How long do people rent a car when staying in Alberta?

7 days is the most popular length of time momondo users will rent a car for in Alberta. Renting a car for 7 days will cost $48/day on average. If you decide to stay and rent a car in Alberta for 1 week then prices will be around $336. Many of our users also tend to opt for weekend rentals, which cost $92 in total on average. If it's a longer road trip you're after, you can also rent a car for one month in Alberta, at a total average cost of $1,768.

When did momondo last update prices for cars in Alberta?

Prices for cars in Alberta are refreshed on a daily basis.

How many operators does momondo search for cars in Alberta?

As of April 2024, there are 175 operators available to choose from for cars in Alberta.

How old do you have to be to hire a car in Alberta?

The minimum age for drivers varies by country, including Alberta. In many EU countries drivers must be 18 years old. As a rule, you’ll need to be 21 to hire a car abroad, and a young driver surcharge may be applied if you are under 25. We recommend reading through the policy of your chosen rental company before booking.

What documentation or ID do you need to rent a car in Alberta?

When renting a car in Alberta, all drivers must present a full valid driving license. An International Driving Permit is required if the driving license is written in a language different to that of the country of rental and may be necessary to avoid the risk of potential fines. If you are renting abroad, you may also need to provide proof of return travel and accommodation information during your stay. We always recommend checking with the individual rental company you are booking with.

Why use momondo?

Why should I use momondo to book a car rental in Alberta?

Choosing momondo to search for rental cars in Alberta makes sense because it is quick and free of charge. We find all the rental car prices and policies, you simply choose what works best for you and your trip.

How does momondo help me find the best car rental deal in Alberta?

By the use of filters, momondo makes finding a great car rental in Alberta easier. Whether it is price, car type, amenities or policies, momondo allows you to refine your search with these and more filters to find the best deal for you.