By car to Girona

Car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona starts with a car delivered to you — 44 vehicles on this route, from €38 a day. Crossover, SUV, Comfort and Minivan classes cover the drive between the city and Girona's old town, with weekly bookings from €228 and monthly from €798. Tell us where you are staying and the manager agrees the hand-over when you book.

Is car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona worth it

A car changes the shape of the day, not just the way you reach Girona. With us the vehicle stays in your hands from the moment it is delivered until the end of the trip, so the timetable belongs to you and nobody else.

We hand the car over in the city and you keep it for the whole trip, so the old town, the Onyar river and the Cathedral of Saint Mary of Girona are yours on your own schedule. You stop where the view is good, eat where the tables are full of locals, and turn back when you decide. Our 44 cars on this page run from €38 to €72 a day.

Can you drive a rental car from Barcelona to Girona

Yes — a vehicle from Rent-Trip is driven on the right, left-hand drive, and the whole run to Girona stays inside mainland Spain. Nothing about the journey asks for special paperwork beyond what you carry anyway. European Union and European Economic Area licences, including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, are fully valid in Spain while they have not expired, and no international permit is needed for them. Licences issued outside that group are valid if they are in force and the holder meets the Spanish age requirement for the equivalent category. A licence not written in Spanish is accepted either with an official sworn translation or if it was issued on the model of Appendix 9 of the Geneva Convention or Appendix 6 of the Vienna Convention.

What the money actually buys

• One base, many days out: the same car covers Girona, the coast and the Penedès wine country across a week.

Route and drive time for car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

How far and how long the drive takes

The drive is a short motorway run north of the city, comfortably done as a day trip with the car back the same evening.

What the drive costs by class

Weekly bookings run from €228 and monthly from €798, and the class you pick changes how the motorway feels rather than how long it takes. Our own view: for a single day trip to Girona, a Crossover at €38 does everything an SUV does. Take the bigger car only if the Costa Brava detour on the way home is part of the plan — and book it with a manager before you leave, because the hand-over point is agreed when booking.

Tolls and running costs of car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

The rental rate is only part of what a trip costs. Between the city and Girona you pay for tunnels, motorway barriers, fuel and parking, and each of those has its own price tag.

Fuel and parking you will pay for

Fuel in the city averages €1.953 for Gasolina 95 E5, and paid parking in an Área Blava zone costs €2.5 per hour on tariff A or €2.25 on tariff B. The municipal average of €1.953 covers 74 filling stations measured across the city, with prices running from €1.758 to €2.059 — a spread wide enough that where you refuel matters. Our own cars come with a full tank under the lleno a lleno policy, so you fill up before you bring the car back. Blue-zone tickets are issued at the parquímetro and the plate number on the comprovant d'estacionament has to match the car.

What a Girona day costs beyond the rental

• Fuel: Gasolina 95 E5 averages €1.953 in the city.
• Área Blava parking: €2.5 per hour on tariff A, €2.25 on tariff B, paid at the parquímetro.

Keep the fuel receipt and the parking ticket with the rental agreement — they are the paperwork that shows what was spent on the road if anything is queried later.

Low-emission zone rules for car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

Which sticker the car needs

The Zona de Bajas Emisiones Rondas de Barcelona (ZBE Rondes BCN) — Zona de Baixes Emissions Rondes de Barcelona in Catalan — is enforced on working days, Monday to Friday, and covers more than 95 km²: the whole municipality except the Zona Franca industrial estate 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.

Ask us at booking which side of the boundary your hand-over point falls on.

What to check before you set off

• Enforcement hours: the zone applies on working days, Monday to Friday — weekend departures for Girona are not affected.

Choosing your car for car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

The right car for the run north is decided by three things: how many of you are travelling, how much luggage goes in the boot, and whether you want the coastal C-32 on the way home. Our 44 cars on this page split into four classes.

Crossover, SUV, Comfort or Minivan

• Crossover — 13 cars from €38: the cheapest way to make the trip, with the Citroen C3 Aircross at €38, the MG ZS at €39 and the Ebro S400 hybrid automatic at €40.
• SUV — 13 cars from €42: the Dacia Duster starts at €42, the Nissan Qashqai and Skoda Karoq at €48, and the 7-seat Nissan X-Trail at €60.
• Comfort — 10 cars from €40: the Citroen C4 at €40, Ford Focus and Hyundai i30 at €41, Toyota Corolla hybrid automatic at €47.
• Transmission: most of the fleet is manual, and the automatic options sit in the higher brackets — the Ebro S400, Opel Astra, Peugeot 308, Toyota Corolla and the larger SUVs.
• Fuel: diesel, petrol, hybrid and LPG versions are all in the fleet, including the Dacia Duster on petrol/LPG and the Jeep Avenger on petrol/electric.

Book the class you actually need rather than the cheapest one — swapping up later depends on what is free that day, and the class is confirmed with the manager when you book.

Prices and booking terms for car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

Daily rates on this page run from €38 to €72: a week is charged as six days and a month as twenty-one, so the same Crossover that costs €38 a day comes out at €228 for the week and €798 for the month.

What the four classes cost

• SUV: 13 cars from €42 a day — Dacia Duster, Nissan Qashqai, Opel Grandland, Skoda Karoq, Citroen C5 Aircross, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Compass, Kia Sportage, Ford Kuga, Peugeot 3008, Seat Tarraco and Nissan X-Trail.
• Comfort: 10 cars from €40 a day — Citroen C4, Ford Focus, Hyundai i30, Kia Ceed, Opel Astra, Peugeot 308, Seat Leon, Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Golf.
• Minivans: 8 cars from €52 a day — Citroen Berlingo, Fiat Doblo, Opel Combo, Peugeot Rifter and Dacia Jogger.

Seven seats start with the Peugeot Rifter at €55 and the Dacia Jogger at €56, both useful if the Girona run includes passengers rather than luggage alone.

How booking works with us

We do not run a self-service checkout. You tell us the dates and the car you want, and a manager confirms the booking with you directly, so nothing is left to a screen. Our fleet on this page is 44 cars out of 1,771 across the site.

Paperwork, cover and pick-up for car rental in Barcelona for a trip to Girona

Paperwork is the part of the booking that travellers worry about most, and it is also the part where the rules are set out clearly. Below is what to have ready, what is already included, and what is agreed when you book.

Documents the driver needs for the run to Girona

• EU/EEA licence: fully valid in Spain while it is in date, including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — nothing extra is required and no international permit is needed.
• Non-EU licence: valid for driving here if it is in force and you have held a normal residence in Spain for no more than six months; the DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
• Permiso Internacional de Conducción: a supporting document only — shown together with your passport and your national licence, valid for one year.
• Licence not in Spanish: valid either with an official certified translation or if it was issued to the Appendix 9 Geneva or Appendix 6 Vienna model.

Insurance that comes with the car

Every car legally on a Spanish road carries Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, and it is part of the booking by default — it covers injury and property damage to third parties, with limits of 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR for property, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2 as amended by Ley 5/2025, in force since 26.07.2025. It does not cover the driver or the car itself.

Fuel, inspection and the agreement

Hand-over follows the lleno a lleno rule: the car leaves with a full tank and comes back full. Before you drive off, check that every scratch and dent is written into the agreement or the inspection sheet, that both sides sign it and that you keep a copy; without that, damage can be pinned on you.

What to do on arrival with a hired car for a trip to Girona

A day trip or an overnight

Girona works as a single day out of Barcelona: leave early, walk the old town and the Jewish quarter, eat, and be back before the evening. On a day trip, keep the car in one car park and cover the centre on foot; on an overnight, park at the hotel and forget the car until you leave. Either way, fill the tank before you hand the car back.

What to check before you drive off

• The car itself: walk it once and note anything you see — our hand-over is arranged so the record matches the car you actually take.

The one thing worth doing before any of this is agreeing the return point and the time with the manager in advance: Girona is a comfortable run out and back, but only if the evening end of it is already decided.