Long-term car rental

A week of commuting between L'Eixample and the 22@ district, weekend runs to Sitges and Montserrat, and a car you keep for the whole stay — long-term car rental in Barcelona works differently from a three-day booking. We deliver the car to you, and the booking is agreed with a manager. Our fleet here runs to 24 cars, from €19 a day, with weekly rates from €114 and monthly rates from €399.

What long-term car rental in Barcelona means at Rent-Trip

At Rent-Trip, long-term car rental in Barcelona is a self-drive booking measured in weeks and months rather than days: weekly rates start at €114 and monthly rates start at €399. Both tiers are agreed with a manager before the car is confirmed, because the fleet on this page is 24 cars — 23 Economy from €19 per day and one Electric at €34.

What counts as long-term with Rent-Trip

Rent-Trip treats weekly and monthly bookings as long-term, with weekly from €114 and monthly from €399. The weekly tier is calculated as the daily rate multiplied by six, the monthly tier as the daily rate multiplied by 21, so a Fiat Panda at €19 per day comes out at €114 for a week and €399 for a month. A long-term booking runs on the same self-drive model as a short one — you drive, we hand over the keys, and the class of car is agreed when booking rather than picked off a shelf. On a booking that runs for weeks the practical difference is not the paperwork but the car itself: a 4-seat Fiat Panda and a 5-seat Skoda Fabia are both Economy, yet only one of them suits a family of four with luggage. The longer the term, the more it pays to fix the class in advance — with 24 cars on this page, a free choice of class is not guaranteed in a busy month.

Self-drive only, with the car brought to you

Every Rent-Trip booking is self-drive — you drive, and we deliver the car to the client. Without a chauffeur, no transfer desk, no meeting point to find: the car comes to an address agreed when booking, and the booking itself is settled with a manager rather than through an instant checkout. That matters over a month in a way it does not over a weekend. A long-term hire replaces your own car, so everything you would normally handle yourself stays with you: where the car spends the night, whether that place is inside the ZBE Rondes BCN low-emission zone, and what you do about parking between trips. In our experience, the clients who enjoy a month-long booking most are the ones who sort out a garage or a resident spot in the first week — after that the arrangement simply becomes the car you own, minus the ownership.

Where a long-term booking actually differs

• Agreed class, not a category on the day: with 24 cars on this page, the model you want is confirmed with a manager when booking, not chosen at hand-over.
• Weekly and monthly tiers: the rate steps down from the daily figure at six days and again at 21, so the term you book changes the price more than the car does.
• One car, one driver profile: a booking that runs for weeks keeps the same vehicle, which is why transmission and seats matter more here than on a three-day hire.
• Your own parking and charging routine: on a self-drive long-term hire you arrange where the car lives, and an electric model only makes sense with a charging point you can use.
• Terms set out in the rental agreement: the deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discounts are fixed in the agreement, not on this page.

Naming the class early is the single habit that separates a smooth month from a frustrating one — and it costs nothing to do at the booking stage.

Weekly and monthly rates for long-term car rental in Barcelona

Our long-term car rental in Barcelona is priced in three tiers — daily, weekly and monthly — and the longer tier is calculated from the daily rate of the class you pick, not from a flat discount.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates by class

Economy starts at €19 per day, weekly from €114 and monthly from €399, while the single Electric car — the Fiat 500e — runs at €34 per day. Each tier follows the same arithmetic: a week is the daily rate multiplied by six, and a month is the daily rate multiplied by twenty-one. The Fiat Panda, Hyundai i10 and Kia Picanto sit at the bottom of the Economy range at €19; the middle of the class, from the Dacia Sandero at €22 to the Volkswagen Polo at €26, covers most of the 24 cars on this page; the Toyota Yaris at €29 and the DS DS 3 at €28 top it out. On a monthly booking that spread is worth checking closely — €19 per day becomes €399 per month, and €29 per day becomes €609, so the choice of model matters more than the length of the stay. In our experience the monthly tier is best read off the daily rate times twenty-one rather than off the weekly rate times four, because the two multipliers do not match.

What the price includes and what is agreed when booking

Every booking includes the Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, the compulsory third-party cover that Spanish law attaches to any car allowed on the road, with limits of 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR for property damage. The deposit, the franquicia, delivery fees and any discounts are not part of the published rate — they are set out in the rental agreement. Spanish consumer rules require the advertised price of a hire to include every compulsory charge without which the car cannot legally be driven, which is why the daily, weekly and monthly figures above already fold in the obligatory cover. That also gives you a clean way to read any quote for long-term car rental in Barcelona: compare the total for the whole booking rather than the headline daily figure, since optional protection products sit on top of the rate and change the final sum.

Choosing your car for long-term rental in Barcelona

Our 24 cars on this page break down by seats, transmission and fuel rather than by badge. The split matters more on a monthly booking than on a weekend: you live with the choice for weeks.

4-seat or 5-seat, manual or automatic

• 4-seat models: Fiat Panda, Toyota Aygo, Fiat 500 and the electric Fiat 500e — enough for two adults and luggage, tight for a family of four with child seats.
• 5-seat models: Hyundai i10, Kia Picanto, Dacia Sandero, Kia Rio, Citroen C3, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai i20 and the rest of the Economy line — the practical default for a household.
• Manual transmission: every model on this page except two, from the €19 per day Hyundai i10 up to the Skoda Fabia at €25.
• Automatic transmission: Lancia Ypsilon at €26 per day and Toyota Yaris at €29 per day — the only two automatics we list, both Hybrid.
• Petrol: the largest group, including the Hyundai i10, Kia Picanto, Kia Rio, Ford Fiesta, Hyundai i20 and Citroen C3, all front-wheel drive with a 1.0–1.2 L engine.
• Petrol/LPG: Dacia Sandero at €22 per day and Dacia Sandero Stepway at €24 per day, both 5 seats with a 90 hp unit.
• Hybrid: Fiat Pandina, Fiat 500, Fiat Grande Panda, Renault Clio, Lancia Ypsilon, Toyota Yaris and MG MG3.

Automatic cars are the scarcest thing in our fleet here — two models out of twenty-four — so if you need one for a month, agree the class with a manager early rather than the week you move in.

Petrol, hybrid, LPG and the one electric car

The fleet runs on Petrol, Hybrid, Petrol/Hybrid and Petrol/LPG, plus a single Electric — the Fiat 500e at €34 per day, 118 hp, 4 seats, automatic. That is one car out of 24, so it is booked or it is not. LPG versions of the Dacia Sandero give the cheapest kilometre over a long stay because gasolina 95 E5 averaged €1.953 across 74 filling stations in the municipality, and an LPG car fills at a lower pump price. The Fiat 500e only makes sense if you have your own charging point: the municipal network, Endolla Barcelona, charges EcoOne by consumption at €0.49 per kWh with no subscription, which suits a tourist on a short hire but adds a stop to every second day. Check where you park before choosing the electric — a car with no home socket turns a monthly booking into a charging routine.

How delivery and booking work for long-term car rental in Barcelona

Long-term car rental in Barcelona with Rent-Trip is built around two things: the car comes to you, and the booking is agreed with a manager. Nothing is automatic — a person confirms the class, the dates and the hand-over before anything is finalised.

Booking a long-term rental with a manager

• Request: you send the dates, the class you want and where you would like the car handed over, and a manager picks it up from there.
• Agreement: the weekly or monthly rate, the deposit, the excess, delivery fees and any discounts are set out in the rental agreement, not in a chat message.
• Confirmation: the booking is agreed with a manager before the car is assigned, so the class and the dates are fixed in writing.
• Documents: what the main driver has to show is agreed when booking, because the requirement depends on the licence and the rental agreement.
• Changes: moving the dates or extending a monthly booking is easier the earlier you ask — our page fleet is 24 cars, and a specific model cannot be held indefinitely.

The car is delivered to the client

We deliver the car to the client — that is the whole point of how we work, and it applies to weekly and monthly bookings alike. You do not travel to a counter to collect it; the hand-over happens where you are staying or wherever you have arranged with the manager. What we do not do is drive you: every booking is self-drive, so the person behind the wheel is you, and the driver has to be the one named in the agreement.

For a stay of several weeks or a month, that changes your first day. You need somewhere to keep the car from the moment it arrives — a garage space, a residential parking permit or a paid zone near your address.

What is agreed when booking, and what is not

Delivery timing, the hand-over point and the rest of the arrangement — all of it is agreed with a manager when booking, because none of it is a fixed published rule. Two more things belong to that same conversation: the documents the main driver presents, and the terms of the rental agreement itself. We do not print a standard list, because the answer depends on the licence you hold and on the rental agreement you sign.

The one figure that never moves is the rate. Weekly starts at €114 and monthly at €399, and those come straight from the daily price of the car you choose. If a manager quotes you something that does not match the class you booked, ask which car it refers to — on a page with 23 Economy cars, the daily rate alone runs from €19 to €29, so the model matters more than the class name.

Picking up and returning after a month

Return works the same way as delivery, in reverse: the place and the time are agreed when booking, and the fuel level at return follows the policy in your rental agreement. Plan the return around the traffic you already know — the Rondes B-10 and B-20 slow sharply in the morning and evening peaks, and a hand-over arranged for the middle of the day is usually the calmest. If your booking runs into a second month, tell the manager before the current one ends rather than after: extending an agreed booking keeps the same car and the same rate, while a new booking starts from whatever is free on the page that day.

Long-term car rental in Barcelona for ZBE, parking and tolls

ZBE Rondes BCN and the environmental sticker

The Zona de Bajas Emisiones Rondes de Barcelona (ZBE Rondes BCN) 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. It operates on working days, Monday to Friday. Two DGT stickers open the zone: 0 emisiones (blue) and ECO (blue-green). Cars with foreign plates need prior registration in the Registre metropolità de vehicles estrangers i altres vehicles autoritzats a les zones de baixes emissions. In our fleet, the Fiat 500e carries the blue badge, and the hybrids — Fiat Pandina, Fiat 500, Renault Clio, Toyota Yaris, Lancia Ypsilon, Fiat Grande Panda and MG MG3 — carry ECO. On a monthly booking the sticker question is worth settling before you choose a model, not after: a car without one turns every weekday trip into a detour around the ring roads.

Parking: the blue zones and what an hour costs

AREA Blava is the city's paid on-street parking. Tariff A costs €2.5 per hour and tariff B €2.25 per hour; the residential zones are free at weekends. Payment goes into the parquímetro and prints a comprovant d'estacionament, so keep it on the dashboard. If your flat comes without a parking space, price a monthly garage contract before you sign the agreement.

Tolls, fuel and charging a long-term electric car

The C-16 and the Túnels de Vallvidrera, which carry you out of the city towards Sant Cugat and the Vallès, charge €4.7 for a passenger car. Fuel at the municipal average is €1.953 per litre for Gasolina 95 E5, with a median of €1.987, a low of €1.758 and a high of €2.059 across the 74 stations in the survey. Charging runs through EcoOne, which bills per kWh with no subscription — a tourist mode that suits an electric car on a long hire; the rate is €0.49 per kWh. Over a month the LPG Dacia Sandero and Sandero Stepway usually cost the least per kilometre, while the electric Fiat 500e only makes sense if you can charge where you park. Check the charging point at your building before booking the electric car.

Insurance, deposit and documents for long-term car rental in Barcelona

Long hires run on paperwork that is agreed up front, not on the day you get the keys. Below is what Spanish law puts into every agreement, which covers are optional, and what stays open until the booking is confirmed with a manager.

What Spanish law includes in every long-term hire

Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil is included by law in any hire and works at all times, even if the driver at the wheel was not named in the agreement. It covers damage to third parties, not the driver and not the car, 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 under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2 as amended by Ley 5/2025, in force since 26.07.2025. Ask what the declared price already contains before you compare anything: Spanish consumer rules require the advertised rate to include every mandatory charge you cannot legally drive without, mandatory third-party cover among them.

Optional covers and the excess you carry

• CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): an optional add-on that removes your liability for damage to the car itself after 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 amount.
• SCDW and SPCDW: partial and full buy-out of the excess left uncovered by CDW; neither works if CDW was not taken or if a CDW exclusion applies.
• STHW and SPTHW: the same partial and full buy-out, applied to the theft excess left by THW.
• WWI (Glass and Tyres Protection): a separate option for windscreens and tyres, which basic CDW normally leaves out.
• Franquicia (excess): the amount you pay yourself when there is damage; it is printed in the agreement whether or not you bought a buy-out, and the exact sum depends on the provider and the car class.

Documents, deposit and the hand-over inspection

Bring the original identity document in the main driver's name; the deposit is agreed when booking — a preautorización blocking a sum against possible damage and extras, with the amount told to you before anything is signed. EU and EEA licences, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway included, are fully valid in Spain until they expire and need nothing added; third-country licences are valid if they are in force, if the holder is old enough in Spain for the equivalent category, and if less than six months have passed since they took up ordinary residence here, with the DGT advising an international driving permit before the trip. A licence not in Spanish is accepted either with an official sworn Spanish translation or if it was issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention. At hand-over, Spanish consumer rules require every scratch and dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive off, signed by both sides, with a copy left with you — otherwise the damage is pinned on the renter. On a month-long booking that sheet is worth photographing, because wear you did not cause is easy to attribute later. The rest of the terms are set out in the rental agreement.

Long-term car rental in Barcelona for weeks of city life and weekend trips

Weeks of living here change what you need from a car. A monthly booking at €399 covers supermarket runs in L'Eixample, school pick-ups in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi and the drive out to Sitges on a Saturday. We hand the car over once, and after that it is yours for the whole stay.

City weeks: what a long-term booking actually does for you

The daily job of a monthly car is unglamorous and constant: moving between Gràcia, Poblenou and the 22@ district on a schedule that public transport only partly matches. A Fiat Panda at €19 per day or a Hyundai i10 at €19 per day parks in the AREA Blava zones at €2.50 an hour in tariff A and €2.25 in tariff B, so short stops in Ciutat Vella stay cheap. Where a car earns its keep is the weekly shop, the airport run for visiting family, and the mornings when you would otherwise cross the city twice. In our experience the families who book monthly use the car four or five days a week, not seven — and the monthly rate from €399 absorbs those quiet days better than any short booking would.

Weekend trips that justify a longer booking

A long-term car pays for itself on the weekends, when the city empties towards the coast and the hills. Montserrat, Sitges, Girona, Tarragona and PortAventura, the Penedès wine country and the Costa Brava all sit within an hour or two, and the C-16 towards the Pyrenees and La Cerdanya runs through the Túnels de Vallvidrera at €4.70 for a car. Longer trips reach Andorra. Our own view is that a hybrid or LPG car suits this pattern best: the Dacia Sandero runs on Petrol/LPG, the Toyota Yaris Hybrid and the Fiat Grande Panda Hybrid keep fuel bills low on repeated motorway runs, and the Toyota Yaris is one of only two automatics on the fleet — worth reserving early if you plan weekend mileage.

What to check before you commit to a month

• Eco sticker: the ZBE Rondes BCN covers more than 95 km² of the municipality, so confirm your car carries the 0 emisiones or ECO distintivo ambiental before you plan daily routes.
• Parking at home: residential zones are restricted on weekends, and a long booking means the car sits somewhere every night — check your building's garage before you choose a size.
• Charging, if electric: the Fiat 500e at €34 per day works well only with a fixed charging point; EcoOne charges €0.49 per kWh without a subscription.
• Fuel policy: fill up within 25 km of the return point, as the lleno a lleno rule requires.

The rest — deposit, excess, delivery fees and any discounts — is set out in the rental agreement and agreed when you book.

Practical conclusions about long-term car rental in Barcelona

Long-term car rental in Barcelona comes down to three decisions: how long you book for, which class you take, and where the car lives between trips.

• Duration first: weekly is priced at daily × 6 and monthly at daily × 21, so a month booked as one booking is the cheapest way to keep a car for weeks.
• Class second: 23 of the 24 cars here are Economy from €19 per day; the single Electric is €34 per day, and automatic transmission is limited to the Lancia Ypsilon and Toyota Yaris.
• Storage third: every booking is self-drive with the car delivered to you, so parking is your own arrangement from the first day — check whether your building or street has resident parking before you commit to a month.
• Papers fourth: carry the original licence and passport of the main driver, and expect the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee to be set out in the rental agreement.
• City rules fifth: the ZBE Rondes BCN covers more than 95 km² of the municipality, and foreign plates need prior registration in the Registre metropolità de vehicles estrangers.
• Fuel sixth: petrol 95 E5 averaged €1.953 across 74 stations measured in the municipality, so a month of city driving is a real line in your budget.

A month behind the wheel rarely fails on the car. It fails on the small things — a parking space that turns out to be resident-only, a licence that is not in Spanish and has no certified translation, a charging point you assumed was in the building. Sort those before the car arrives, not after.

For our part, long bookings are the ones we would rather agree early: on a fleet of 24 cars, a specific model held for four weeks is easier to promise in advance than in the middle of August, when the city fills up and the same 24 cars are wanted by everyone at once.

Two habits make the difference. Photograph nothing you were not asked to photograph, and instead read the hand-over document carefully — Spanish consumer rules require scratches and dents to be written into the contract or the inspection sheet before you drive off, signed by both sides, with a copy left with you. And plan the first week around the city rather than the coast: get used to the Rondes, the 30 km/h streets and the blue-zone meters before you add a motorway and a toll to the same day.