Car rental in Barcelona

Car rental in Barcelona starts at €19 per day for an Economy hatchback, and our Barcelona fleet holds 136 cars across 14 classes — from a Fiat Panda to Exotic models at €896 per day. We deliver the car to you anywhere in the city.

What car rental in Barcelona looks like with Rent-Trip

Rent-Trip is a self-drive car rental in Barcelona built around two things: the car comes to you, and a manager agrees the booking with you before anything is confirmed.

How delivery and manager-agreed booking work

We deliver the car to the client and agree the booking with a manager — that is the whole shape of the service. You tell us where you will be, and the vehicle arrives there.

What 136 cars in one city means for you

We keep 136 cars in Barcelona, out of 1,771 across the whole site. Those 136 are spread over 14 classes — Economy, Crossover, SUV, Premium, Luxury, Comfort, Electric, Convertibles, Passenger vans, Minivans, Sports, Exotic, Sedan and Commercial — with daily prices running from €19 to €1,490. Fuel types across the fleet include Petrol, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid, Petrol/Hybrid, Petrol/LPG, Plug-in Hybrid and Mild Hybrid variants, and both Automatic and Manual transmissions are represented. Economy alone accounts for 23 vehicles, from a Fiat Panda at €19 a day up to a Toyota Yaris Hybrid at €29.

What we do not put on this page

• Deposit and excess: the amount blocked on your card and the excess you carry are set out in the rental agreement, not here.
• Delivery fees: whether a delivery point carries a fee is agreed when booking.
• Discounts: weekly and monthly rates start at €114 and €399.
• Documents and minimum age: what you need to bring and the age you can rent from are agreed when booking.

Classes and prices of car rental in Barcelona

Fourteen classes sit on this page, from Economy at €19 a day to Exotic at €896, with weekly rates from €114 and monthly from €399.

Prices by class, from Economy to Exotic

Weekly and monthly rates

Weekly rates start at €114 and monthly at €399, and both follow the same arithmetic: weekly is daily × 6, monthly is daily × 21. So a car at €19 a day lands at €114 for a week and €399 for a month, while the same two multipliers applied to a €46 Premium come out at €276 and €966. Those figures follow daily × 6 and daily × 21 — check the class you want against both before you decide how long to keep it. What the multipliers do not cover is the deposit, the excess or any delivery fee — those are set out in the rental agreement.

Where the money actually goes

The gap between €19 and €896 is not a gap in quality so much as a gap in what a car is for. Electric sits at €34 with nine cars, including Citroen e-C3, Fiat 500e and Renault 5 E-Tech. Sports and Exotic are a different purchase entirely — six cars each, from €588 and €896 a day. Pick the cheapest class that genuinely fits your group and your route, then put the difference into a longer booking: at daily × 21 the monthly rate on an Economy car is €399, which is the same money as three weeks of the daily figure.

Choosing your car rental in Barcelona by seats and fuel

Two things decide the class more often than price: how many people are travelling and what is under the bonnet. Seat counts across our fleet run from 2 to 9, and fuel types from straight Petrol through Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid to full Electric, so the same daily budget can buy very different cars.

Matching seats to your group

Seat counts run from 2 to 9, so a family of five fits an Economy hatchback and a group of nine needs a passenger van. Economy covers 23 cars from €19 a day — Fiat Panda with 4 seats, Hyundai i10, Kia Picanto and Dacia Sandero with 5. Minivans add 8 cars from €52, passenger vans 9 cars from €90.

Automatic or manual, petrol or electric

• Automatic: Lancia Ypsilon at €26, Toyota Yaris at €29, plus the full Electric range — Citroen e-C3, Fiat 500e and Renault 5 E-Tech from €34.
• Manual: the default across Economy, Crossover, SUV and Comfort — Fiat Panda, Kia Rio, Dacia Duster, Citroen C4.
• Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid: Toyota Yaris, Fiat 500, MG MG3, Ebro S400 — useful if you want low consumption without planning charging stops.
• Petrol/LPG: Dacia Sandero and Dacia Sandero Stepway, both 1.0 L, 90 hp, from €22.

In Spain a manual gearbox is the standard specification and automatic is a separate, pricier class, so if you need an automatic, book it early rather than assume one will be free on the day.

Where car rental in Barcelona begins with delivery points we serve

We hand the car over where your trip actually begins: at the airport, at the station, at the cruise terminal, or at your address in the city. Every delivery point is agreed when booking, together with the time.

Airport, station and cruise terminal

• Barcelona Sants railway station: useful for arrivals by long-distance train and for departures towards the rest of Spain.
• Port of Barcelona cruise terminals (Moll Adossat): the terminal sits away from the city centre, so a car waiting there saves a transfer run on the day you disembark.

Driving rules that shape your car rental in Barcelona

Spain drives on the right and every car in our fleet is left-hand drive. Speed limits, alcohol thresholds and the low-emission zone all apply to a hired car exactly as they apply to a local one.

Speed limits you will actually meet

• Motorway (autopista / autovía): 120 km/h for cars, motorcycles and campervans up to 3,500 kg.
• Ordinary out-of-town road (carretera convencional): 90 km/h, which the road owner may raise to 100 km/h.
• City street with two or more lanes each way: 50 km/h, not counting bus and transit lanes.
• City street with one lane each way: 30 km/h, and a municipality may raise it to 50 km/h with a sign.
• Single-platform street, roadway level with the pavement: 20 km/h.
• Rondes B-10 and B-20 inside the city: 80 km/h as the general motorway limit within a built-up area unless a sign says otherwise.

Speeding fines follow the DGT table by limit and by how far over you went: 100 EUR with no points, 300 EUR with 2 points, 400 EUR with 4, 500 EUR with 6, and 600 EUR with 6 for the most serious band. Above 60 km/h over the limit in town or 80 km/h outside it, the offence stops being administrative.

Alcohol, phones and child seats

• Alcohol, general limit: 0.25 mg per litre of breath.
• Alcohol, new and professional drivers: 0.15 mg per litre of breath over the first two years.
• Alcohol, criminal threshold: above 0.60 mg per litre.
• Alcohol and drugs penalty: 500–1,000 EUR and 4–6 points; any presence of drugs is grounds for a sanction on its own.
• Phone in hand: 200 EUR and 3–6 points, with 6 points if you were holding it.
• Seat belt, helmet, child seat: 200 EUR and 4 points, and the driver answers for a child without a seat.
• Child restraints (SRI): required for children under 135 cm; from 135 cm and under 12, the standard belt is allowed.

Fines are graded leve up to 100 EUR without points, grave at 200 EUR, and muy grave at 500 EUR always with points — and paying within 20 calendar days cuts the amount by 50%. Set the child seat up before you leave the delivery point, not at the first service station.

Parking, tolls and charging for car rental in Barcelona

Below are the rules that apply to car rental in Barcelona — the zone tariffs, the toll road out of the city and the rate you pay for electricity at a public charger.

Parking zones and hourly rates

• AREA Blava A: the blue zone, tariff A, costs €2.5 per hour.
• AREA Blava B: the blue zone, tariff B, costs €2.25 per hour — slightly less than tariff A.
• Parquímetro: pay at the machine and keep the comprovant d'estacionament; the plate number on the ticket must match your car.
• Green zone: the área verda is priced above the blue zone and gives priority to residents, not to visitors.

Tolls on the way out of the city

The rate is a peaje — a toll — and it is paid per crossing, not per day. Rates move between hora punta and hora vall, so the same tunnel costs less outside the rush hour. If your route runs inland towards the Pyrenees, the C-16 and the Túnel del Cadí are the two tolled stretches you will meet.

Charging an electric car

Plan a charge at your hotel or a car park rather than hunting a street point at the end of the day.

Day trips and longer routes by car rental in Barcelona

Barcelona sits within an hour or two of the Costa Brava, the Penedès wine country, Montserrat and the Pyrenees, so a car turns a city break into a region. We hand over the keys with a full tank on the lleno a lleno policy, which matters more on a long loop than on a short hop — you collect it full and return it full.

Routes worth planning around

• Sitges: a coastal run south-west of the city, and the shortest of these loops from Barcelona.
• Montserrat: the mountain monastery sits about 60 km north-west.
• Andorra and the Pyrenees: the longest of these runs, with mountain roads that reward an early start.

Staying inside the low-emission zone

The ZBE Rondes de Barcelona covers more than 95 km² — the whole municipality apart from the Zona Franca industrial area and the Vallvidrera – el Tibidabo i les Planes neighbourhood, plus L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Adrià de Besòs and parts of Esplugues de Llobregat and Cornellà de Llobregat.

Documents and the rental agreement for car rental in Barcelona

Spanish paperwork is built around the driving licence, and the rules differ sharply depending on where yours was issued.

Licence rules for EU, EEA and third-country drivers

• EU and EEA licences: valid in Spain exactly as issued, for as long as they have not expired — no extra document, no international permit required.
• Third-country licences: accepted if the licence is in force, the holder meets the Spanish age requirement for the equivalent category, and no more than six months have passed since they took up ordinary residence in Spain.
• Non-Spanish wording: valid either with an official sworn translation into Spanish, or where the licence itself follows Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• International Driving Permit: a supplementary document only — it is shown together with your passport and your national licence, never on its own, and it runs for one year.
• Passport or ID: the original in the name of the main driver, which is what rental companies ask for; the DGT sets no single rule here.

The DGT advises third-country drivers to obtain the international permit before travelling.

What the agreement fixes before you pay

A Spanish consumer rule works in your favour at hand-over: every scratch and dent must be written into the contract or the inspection sheet before you drive away, both sides sign it, and you keep a copy — otherwise the damage is pinned on you. The advertised price is also required to include all compulsory charges you cannot legally drive without, mandatory third-party cover among them.

The deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement.

Insurance and excess in car rental in Barcelona

What matters for your budget is not the daily rate but the excess — the amount you pay yourself if the car comes back damaged.

What compulsory cover includes

Third-party liability insurance is part of Spanish law and comes with any car legally on the road, so it is already inside your rate. The statutory limits are €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury, however many people are hurt, and €15,000,000 per incident for property damage. Under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025, those sums have applied since 26.07.2025. This cover protects the people and property you hit — not the vehicle you are driving and not you as the driver.

Practical conclusions about car rental in Barcelona

The city rewards a car that matches the trip you actually booked, not the biggest one on the page.

• Check the multiplier before you commit: weekly is daily × 6 and monthly is daily × 21, so a seven-day booking is not seven daily rates added up.
• Sort the gearbox first: automatic is a separate, pricier class in Spain, so if you need it, book it early rather than hoping for an upgrade on the day.

One thing to keep in mind: the ZBE Rondes BCN low-emission zone covers more than 95 km² — the whole municipality apart from the Zona Franca industrial area and the Vallvidrera – el Tibidabo i les Planes neighbourhood — and operates on working days, Monday to Friday.