Citroën car rental in Barcelona

Eight Citroën cars are available to book in Barcelona, from €24 to €92 per day, with weekly rates from €144 and monthly from €504. We deliver the car to you anywhere in the city, and every booking is agreed with a manager before it is confirmed.

Citroën car rental in Barcelona to match your trip

Eight Citroëns sit on this page, spread across seven classes, and the right one for you is decided by seat count and gearbox rather than by badge. Below is the full line-up, then what actually separates the C3 from the C4 and the C5 Aircross, and which vans take five or nine people.

The full Citroën line-up, class by class

C3, C4 or C5 Aircross — what actually differs

The Citroen C3 is the cheapest petrol hatchback at €24 a day, the Citroen C4 adds power and comfort at €40, and the Citroen C5 Aircross is the only hybrid Citroën on this page at €50. Under the bonnet the gap is plain: 1.2 L and 83 hp in the C3, 1.2 L and 130 hp in the C4, 1.2 L and 136 hp in the hybrid C5 Aircross. For two people with hand luggage, the C3 does the same job as the C5 Aircross for half the daily rate.

Berlingo and SpaceTourer for families and groups

The Citroen Berlingo seats 5 with a 1.5 L diesel engine at €52 a day, while the Citroen SpaceTourer seats 9 with a 2.0 L diesel and automatic gearbox at €92. Both are front-wheel drive.

Manual or automatic — driving in city traffic

• Automatic: both electric models, the C5 Aircross and the SpaceTourer — four of the eight cars.
• Manual: the C3, C3 Aircross, C4 and Berlingo, all petrol or diesel.
• Front-wheel drive: every Citroën on this page, regardless of class or gearbox.
• Stop-start traffic: an automatic removes the clutch work, but the manual C3 is the cheapest way to drive the same streets.

Electric Citroën car rental in Barcelona and charging

Two of the eight Citroëns in our fleet run on electricity: the e-C3 hatchback at €34 a day and the e-C3 Aircross crossover at €40. Both are automatic, front-wheel drive and rated at 113 hp, and both are covered by the same booking terms as the rest of the cars — the details are agreed with a manager before the vehicle is confirmed.

The two electric Citroëns we offer

The e-C3 is the cheaper of the pair at €34 a day, an Electric-class hatchback with 5 seats and a single-speed automatic transmission. The e-C3 Aircross costs €40 for the same 113 hp drivetrain and the same 5 seats. Range figures are not quoted here: they depend on load, gradient and how hard the air conditioning works, and the fastest way to settle the question is to drive the route you have in mind.

What Citroën rental costs

Daily rates for Citroën car hire in Barcelona run from €24 to €92, a week starts at €144 and a month at €504 — the weekly figure is the daily rate times six, the monthly rate times twenty-one.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates

A week of Citroën hire starts at €144 and a month at €504, both built from the daily rate of the car you choose — €24 multiplied by six, €24 multiplied by twenty-one. The multiplier applies to every model in the line-up, so the C5 Aircross at €50 a day becomes €300 for a week and €1,050 for a month, and the nine-seat SpaceTourer at €92 becomes €552 and €1,932 respectively.

What sets the price of each Citroën

• Class: Economy starts at €24, Crossover at €38, Comfort at €40, SUV at €50, Minivans at €52, Passenger vans at €92.
• Electric: the e-C3 from €34 and the e-C3 Aircross from €40 — the two cheapest automatics on this page.
• Seats: five seats cover seven of the eight cars; the ninth seat in the SpaceTourer is the single biggest jump in price.
• Duration: daily, weekly from €144 or monthly from €504.

The cheapest Citroën and what you give up

The Citroen C3 is the cheapest Citroën on this page at €24 a day — Economy class, 5 seats, petrol, manual, 83 hp. That rate buys a 1.2 L hatchback with front-wheel drive, and it is the same car we hand over on a one-day city booking and on a three-week stay. What you give up at €24 is the automatic gearbox and the hybrid economy of the C5 Aircross. The deposit, the insurance excess and any delivery fee are not part of the daily rate — they are set out in the rental agreement. Two travellers with hand luggage get the same job done by the C3 as by a €50 SUV, at half the daily rate.

Driving a Citroën car rental in Barcelona in the city

Barcelona's streets reward a small car. Traffic drives on the right, every car on this page is left-hand drive, and the city speed limit is 30 km/h on a single lane in each direction — 20 km/h on streets built as one platform with the pavement.

What the city asks of a Citroën

• ZBE Rondes BCN: the low-emission zone covers more than 95 km² — the whole municipality apart from the Zona Franca industrial estate and Vallvidrera – el Tibidabo i les Planes, plus L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Adrià de Besòs and parts of Esplugues de Llobregat and Cornellà de Llobregat.
• Parking: AREA Blava A costs €2.5 an hour and AREA Blava B €2.25.

Manual, automatic and the stop-start

Four of the eight Citroëns are automatic — both electric models, the C5 Aircross and the SpaceTourer — and the other four are manual. In the stop-start traffic the automatic takes the clutch work out of the Rondes B-10 and B-20, where the general limit inside the built-up area is 80 km/h. The manual C3 at €24 a day drives the same streets for less.

Where the size actually matters

Parking is where a Citroën earns its keep in this city. Fuel is Gasolina 95 E5 at a municipal average of €1.953 a litre across 74 filling stations in the last survey. Whichever Citroën you take, the terms of the rental are set out in the rental agreement.

Citroën car rental in Barcelona for day trips

Fuel and the full-tank rule

Petrol 95 E5 averages €1.953 a litre across the municipality, with a median of €1.987 and a spread from €1.758 to €2.059 across the 74 stations surveyed. Our cars leave with a full tank and come back full.

Parking when you come back

Return to the city and the AREA Blava zones apply: tariff A costs €2.5 an hour, tariff B €2.25. Park in the blue zone, take the ticket from the parquímetre and keep the comprovant d'estacionament — the plate number on it has to match the car. A SpaceTourer needs a moment's thought before you commit to an underground car park; check the height barrier and the bay length before you drive in.

Booking your Citroën car rental in Barcelona

Every Rent-Trip booking is agreed with a manager before it is confirmed.

What the manager settles with you

• The car and the dates: which of the eight Citroëns you want, from the €24 C3 to the €92 SpaceTourer, and the exact days you need it.
• The hand-over point: where you want the car brought to you in Barcelona — this is agreed in the booking, not chosen from a fixed list of desks.
• The deposit and the excess: both are set out in the rental agreement.

What to have ready

• Driving licence: an EU/EEA licence is fully valid in Spain while it is in date, with nothing further needed. A third-country licence is valid if it is in force and the holder meets the Spanish age requirement for the equivalent category.
• Licence language: a licence not issued in Spanish is accepted either with an official sworn translation into Spanish or if it was issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention. The DGT advises getting an International Driving Permit before the trip — the Permiso Internacional de Conducción is valid for one year and is shown together with your passport and your national licence, never on its own.

Driving away with a Citroën

The eight cars on this page run on petrol, diesel, hybrid and electric power, with automatic or manual gearboxes, and all of them are front-wheel drive — so the first few minutes behind the wheel feel familiar whichever one you take. Speed limits in Spain are 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on an ordinary out-of-town road, and 30 km/h on a city street with one lane in each direction. Fines for speeding run from €100 to €600 with two to six points, and a 50% discount applies if you pay within 20 calendar days.

Insurance for Citroën car rental in Barcelona

Every Spanish rental car carries compulsory third-party cover by law, and the amounts are fixed nationally rather than by us: 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR for property damage. That cover is included in any agreement and applies even when the person driving was not named in it. It pays third parties — not the driver, and not the car itself.

What the compulsory cover does not pay for

• Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil: the legal minimum, included in every booking; covers injury and property damage caused to others.

The excess figure depends on the company and the car class, and there is no single official tariff for it. We set ours out in the agreement, so you see the number before anything is confirmed.

Documents for driving in Spain

• EU/EEA licences — including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — are fully valid here until they expire; nothing extra is needed and no IDP is required.
• Third-country licences are valid 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. The DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
• Licences not in Spanish are accepted either with an official sworn translation into Spanish, or if they were issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• Permiso Internacional de Conducción is a supplementary document: it is shown only together with your passport and your national licence, and it is valid for one year.

The condition that costs people money

The consumer authority requires that every scratch and dent be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, with both sides signing and a copy staying with you — damage noted afterwards lands on the renter. If the model you booked is not available, you may ask for another car at no extra charge, even a class above; if you are given a lower class, the price must come down.