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Car rental in Spain
Kenan AlkanCity and intercity driver
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536 cars are available for car rental in Spain on this page, from €13 to €1,490 per day, across Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava. We deliver the car to any address in those cities and to the airports we serve, with the delivery address, date and time agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
What car rental in Spain looks like when the car comes to you
Hiring a car usually means a desk somewhere in a terminal, a queue, and a vehicle you meet for the first time in a car park. We work the other way round: it is brought to an address you agree with a manager beforehand.
How delivery works instead of a rental desk
We bring the car to any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we have a page for, and the address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. Agreeing the address first means the hand-over point is a place you already know, not a terminal you have to find after a flight.
What is confirmed before you drive away
Every booking is confirmed by a manager, and the car is supplied clean with a full tank. The tank rule is simple and works both ways: full when you take the car, full when you bring it back, with the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee charged as set out in the rental agreement if it is not.
Where delivery is arranged case by case
- What to do: ask before you book rather than after — a manager will tell you whether your address can be reached on your dates.
- What stays the same: the booking is still confirmed by a manager, and the car still arrives clean with a full tank.
If your address sits outside the four areas, that is a question for a manager, not for the booking form. That is why it is agreed in conversation and not printed as a promise.
Classes of car for rent in Spain and what each one costs
Fourteen classes are bookable on this page, with entry prices from Economy at €13 a day to Sports at €560; the dearest car on the page is €1,490. The table below is the whole spread — what we hold, and the entry price of each class.
Every class on this page and its entry price
| Class | Cars | From, per day |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 77 | €13 |
| Crossover | 57 | €33 |
| Comfort | 51 | €35 |
| Premium | 45 | €46 |
| Minivans | 41 | €42 |
| SUV | 40 | €42 |
| Passenger vans | 40 | €44 |
| Exotic | 40 | €500 |
| Electric | 31 | €22 |
| Convertibles | 29 | €30 |
| Luxury | 29 | €200 |
| Commercial | 26 | €40 |
| Sedan | 16 | €38 |
| Sports | 14 | €560 |
The entry price is the cheapest car in that class, not an average — a class can start low and still hold much dearer cars. Economy alone spans €13 to €35, and the same badge on two cars tells you nothing about what they cost to run.
Seats, gearbox and fuel across the fleet
- Seats: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 — from Smart Fortwo at the small end to the nine-seat vans.
- Gearbox: Automatic and Manual, with the manual box the base specification across most of the Economy class.
- Fuel: Diesel, Petrol, Hybrid, Electric, LPG and Plug-in Hybrid, plus the mild-hybrid variants in between.
- Body types: Hatchback, Sedan, SUV, Crossover, Minivan and Convertible across the fourteen classes.
- Cheapest electric: Fiat 500e at €22 a day, Automatic, 4 seats, 118 hp.
Automatic and hybrid are not the default here — most of the cheapest cars on this page are manual petrol hatchbacks. If either matters to you, pick the class by that parameter first and the model second.
The cheapest cars you can book today
Ford Fiesta and Nissan Micra both start at €13 a day, Toyota Yaris — Economy, Hybrid, Automatic, 5 seats — at €15, and Fiat 500e at €22. Between €19 and €20 you get a wide row of five-seat manuals: Seat Ibiza, Opel Corsa, Renault Clio, Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen Polo, all 90–100 hp.
Choose the gearbox you can actually drive, then take whatever name is left in that row — that is how the cheapest week gets built.
Picking a rental car in Spain for the trip you are actually making
The choice that matters is not the model — it is the shape of the trip. A week of city streets and a week of mountain roads ask for different cars, and the same €20 buys a very different vehicle depending on which one you are doing.
Match the car to the road, not to the brochure
- A car you actually want to drive: Convertibles from €30 and Sports from €560 are on this page for the coastal roads where the drive is the point.
Gearbox and fuel decide more than the badge
Among the cheapest cars manual is the rule. If you cannot drive a manual, filter by transmission first and pick the model second — Toyota Yaris, an Economy Hybrid Automatic with 5 seats at €15 a day, is the cheapest way to get both. On fuel, the fleet runs on Diesel, Petrol, Hybrid, Mild Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid, Electric and LPG, and the cheapest electric, Fiat 500e, starts at €22 a day.
Book the seats and the doors you need
Seat counts on this page run 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9, and the difference between a 4-seat and a 5-seat Economy car at the same €17–€19 is one passenger, not one price band.
Documents, fuel and city rules for car rental in Spain
Driving here is straightforward once you know which licence you need, what the tank rule is and how the speed limits change between motorway and town. The rules below are the ones that apply to a hired car.
Licences that work and the ones that need support
An EU or EEA driving licence — including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — is fully valid here as long as it has not expired, and nothing extra is required; a third-country licence is valid for driving as a visitor, though the DGT recommends an international driving permit before the trip, and residency changes the picture after six months. A licence not written in Spanish is accepted either with an official certified translation or if it was issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention — which in practice means Cyrillic, Arabic and character-based licences need the permit or a certified translation. The Permiso Internacional de Conducción is a supplementary document: it is shown only together with your passport and your national licence, and it runs for one year.
Fuel: full-to-full, and nothing else
Every car we hand over comes clean with a full tank and must go back full — the lleno-lleno rule, and the only fuel option we offer. If the tank is short on return, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement. Fuel is gasolina 95 or gasóleo A at the pumps; diesel is labelled gasóleo A, not diésel.
Speed, alcohol and the rules that catch visitors
Speed limits sit at 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on an ordinary country road, and drop to 30 km/h on a town street with one lane each way, 20 km/h where the road and pavement form a single platform, and 50 km/h where there are two or more lanes in one direction. A phone held in the hand costs €200 and six points, and child seats are required for anyone up to 135 cm tall.
- Urban low-emission zones: Madrid and Barcelona both run ZBE areas, and access depends on your car's DGT environmental badge.
- Winter conditions: there is no blanket winter-tyre rule, but DGT restricts specific roads during snowfall for cars without winter tyres or chains.
Insurance on a car hire in Spain and what the agreement sets out
Insurance is the part of a car hire in Spain where the price on the page and the price at the end can drift apart. Here is what the law puts in place, what a rental company sells on top, and which numbers belong in the agreement rather than on a website.
What is already included by law
Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil is compulsory third-party cover, and Spanish law puts it inside every booking — it works even if the person driving was not named in the agreement. It pays for harm to other people and their property, with limits of 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury however many people are hurt, and 15,000,000 EUR per incident for property damage. It does not cover the driver or the car itself; cover for the car is set out in the rental agreement.
The options a rental company sells on top
- CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): removes your liability for damage to the car in a collision with another vehicle or an object, except for the excess; vandalism is excluded unless it happened while the car was in use.
- THW (Theft Protection): covers full or partial theft and vandalism damage, again minus the excess.
- Franquicia (excess): the amount you pay yourself when there is damage; it is printed in the rental agreement, and the figure depends on the provider and the class of car.
The numbers that live in the agreement, not on a page
The excess is not a fixed national figure, and neither is the deposit. A preautorización blocks an amount on a credit card against possible damage and extras, and the size of that block is told to you before the agreement is signed — the exact sum is set out in the rental agreement, not published here. Two consumer rules are worth knowing: an advertised price must include every mandatory charge without which the car cannot legally be driven, and every scratch and dent must be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive off, signed by both sides, with a copy for you. Skip that step and the damage becomes yours. If the model you booked is not available, you can ask for another car at no extra cost, even a class above; if you are given a lower class, the price should come down. In our own bookings the fuel rule is simple — full tank out, full tank back, lleno-lleno; anything else is charged as set out in the rental agreement. Whichever city you collect in, read the excess line before you sign.
Booking car rental in Spain and where we deliver
We take bookings for car rental in Spain through a manager, not through a self-service checkout that confirms on its own. You tell us the dates, the address and the car class; the manager checks the fleet of 536 vehicles on this page and comes back with a confirmation.
What you agree with a manager before the booking is fixed
- Delivery address: the exact street address where the car will be handed over, agreed in advance rather than at the kerb.
- Date and time: the slot that suits your arrival, confirmed together with the address before anything is locked in.
- Car class: the class you want from the fourteen on this page, from Economy at €13 a day upwards.
- Terms of the agreement: the deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement.
Where we deliver within the areas on this page
We deliver to any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we have a page for, and to Madrid-Barajas (MAD), Barcelona-El Prat (BCN), Valencia (VLC) and Girona-Costa Brava (GRO) airports. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.
Outside those areas, delivery is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site. For an airport hand-over, send the flight number with the booking.
The car arrives clean with a full tank, and it goes back with a full tank — full-to-full, or lleno-lleno as it reads in Spain. If the tank is short on return, the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement; no other fuel option, such as a pre-paid tank, is offered on this page.
Weekly and monthly rates for longer car rental in Spain
What the multipliers actually mean in money
- Monthly, from €273: the same €13 car runs to €273 across twenty-one charged days, whatever the calendar month looks like.
- Mid-range weeks: a Crossover at €33 a day is €198 a week, a Comfort at €35 is €210, and an SUV or Minivan at €42 is €252.
- Longer, higher classes: a Premium at €46 lands at €276 a week, a Luxury at €200 at €1,200, and an Exotic or Sports car is priced the same way from its own daily rate.
- Electric over a month: the Fiat 500e at €22 a day is €132 a week and €462 for twenty-one charged days.
Why we price it this way
The car still arrives at the address, date and time agreed with a manager, clean and with a full tank, and it goes back full: the full-to-full rule does not change because you kept the car for three weeks instead of three days.
What does change over a long hire is how much the daily rate matters against everything else. So if two cars sit close on price, take the one whose gearbox, fuel type and boot you actually want for a month, because you will be living with that choice far longer than you would on a weekend trip.
Booking a longer stretch
- Agree the dates first: the delivery address, date and time are confirmed with a manager before the booking is fixed, and that matters more on a long hire because the drop-off day is a real deadline.
- Ask about the whole period: anything the agreement covers — the deposit, the excess, delivery and any discount — is set out in the rental agreement, so raise it when you book rather than on the last morning.
- Check the return tank: the car is supplied full and must be returned full, otherwise the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the agreement.
- Confirm where it goes back: delivery outside Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so settle the return point before you commit to a month.