Monthly car rental

Insurance, delivery and a set of 24 cars — that is what monthly car rental in Barcelona starts with at Rent-Trip, where the fleet runs from €19 to €34 per day, €114 per week and €399 per month. We deliver the car to the address you give us, and the booking is agreed with a manager.

How monthly car rental in Barcelona works with Rent-Trip

Monthly rental is not a long daily booking with a discount bolted on. With Rent-Trip the car is delivered to you, the dates are fixed in advance, and a manager agrees the terms before anything is signed.

Can you take a car for a full month in Barcelona

Rent-Trip offers self-drive cars on monthly terms in Barcelona — the vehicle is delivered to the client and the booking is agreed with a manager. A month on our page starts at €399, and the terms of the rental agreement are set out in that document rather than invented here. Economy cars from €19 a day and the electric Fiat 500e at €34 a day are all available for a full month, and the same 24 cars you see here are the ones you can hold for four weeks or longer.

How the booking and hand-over are agreed

• Dates and place: the delivery point and the hand-over time are part of the same conversation, agreed when you book.

Read the rental agreement before you sign it, not after. If something in the agreement is unclear, ask the manager at booking rather than at hand-over: it is far easier to change a term before the car is on its way to you.

What a month of car rental in Barcelona costs

A month behind the wheel is priced from the daily rate, not set as a separate figure. On this page the rates run from €19 to €34 per day, weekly from €114 and monthly from €399. Longer terms are calculated as daily × 6 for a week and daily × 21 for a month.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates side by side

Economy covers 23 of the 24 cars on this page, from the Fiat Panda and Hyundai i10 at €19 a day up to the DS DS 3 at €28 and the Toyota Yaris at €29. The single Electric car is the Fiat 500e at €34 a day. Weekly and monthly columns follow the same two multipliers for both classes.

What the monthly figure does not include

The rates on this page cover the car itself. The deposit, the insurance excess, any delivery fee and any discount are set out in the rental agreement. Fuel is on you: the most common policy in Spain is lleno a lleno — the car is handed over with a full tank and returned full. Add those running costs before you compare a month against a week.

The fleet you get for a month of rental in Barcelona

Twenty-four cars sit on this page — twenty-three Economy and one Electric. For a month behind the wheel, class matters less than what sits under the bonnet: seats, fuel type and gearbox decide how the four weeks actually feel.

Economy and electric classes with real specs

Four or five seats and the fuel type matter more than the badge on the tailgate. A Dacia Sandero on Petrol/LPG, for instance, refuels at roughly half the pump cost of the 100 hp Kia Rio, and the Fiat 500e skips fuel entirely for €34 a day.

Manual or automatic for a month of driving

• Automatic transmission: three cars only — Lancia Ypsilon at €26, Toyota Yaris at €29 and the electric Fiat 500e at €34 per day.
• Hybrid and Petrol/Hybrid: Fiat Pandina, Fiat 500, Toyota Yaris, MG MG3 and Fiat Grande Panda, all pairing a petrol engine with electric assistance for stop-start city work.
• Petrol/LPG: Dacia Sandero and Dacia Sandero Stepway, both 90 hp from a 1.0 L engine, both refuelling on either fuel.
• Electric: the single Fiat 500e — 118 hp, Automatic, 4 seats, charged through the city's public network.
• Automatic-only drivers: book the Ypsilon, Yaris or 500e early.

In Spanish rental, manual is the baseline and automatic sits in a separate, pricier bracket.

Documents and licence for monthly car rental in Barcelona

Spanish rules for a foreign licence are simpler than most drivers expect, but they depend on where the licence was issued and how long you have been living here. Below is what actually applies to a month behind the wheel, and what has to be agreed with a manager before the car is delivered.

Which licence works for a month behind the wheel

An EU or EEA licence — including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — is fully valid in Spain for as long as it remains in force, and nothing extra is required. A licence from a third country is valid if it is current, if you are old enough for the equivalent Spanish category, and if no more than six months have passed since you took up ordinary residence in Spain. Spain's DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip, though it is recommended rather than required. If your licence is not in Spanish, it works either with an official sworn translation into Spanish or if it was issued on the Appendix 9 model of the Geneva Convention or Appendix 6 of the Vienna Convention. The 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.

Driving and parking a monthly rental car in Barcelona

Over a month behind the wheel, the rules that matter are the ones you meet every day: the low-emission zone, the paid parking hours, the toll tunnels and the fuel grade at the pump. Here is what shapes a long hire in the city.

The ZBE Rondes BCN low-emission zone

A monthly car hire means driving inside the Zona de Bajas Emisiones Rondas de Barcelona (ZBE Rondes BCN), which covers more than 95 km² — the whole municipality except 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. It operates on working days, Monday to Friday.

Speed limits you will meet every day

Speeding fines follow the DGT table: €100 with no points, then €300, €400, €500 and €600 with 2 to 6 points.

Fines and insurance for monthly car rental in Barcelona

Spanish rental law puts two kinds of responsibility on two different people, and the split matters most on a long booking. If a violation is not handed to you at the roadside, the file goes to the owner or the hirer until the driver is identified — the DGT names both vehículos de alquiler and de renting here. Over a month, that distinction is worth knowing before you sign.

What is always included, whatever you buy

• Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil: compulsory third-party cover sits on every agreement by law and applies even if the person driving was not named in it.
• What it does not cover: the driver's own injuries and the car itself — those need something on top.

The excess, deposit and delivery terms are set out in the rental agreement — read them before signing, not after the car comes back.

Before you drive away

Spanish consumer rules require every scratch and dent to be written into the contract or the inspection sheet before you leave, signed by both sides, with a copy for you. Skip that step and the damage is attributed to you. If the model you booked is not available, you can ask for another car at no extra cost, even a higher class; a lower class means a lower price; and a car that does not match the agreed conditions — automatic, four doors — lets you cancel and take back the prepayment.

Practical conclusions for monthly car rental in Barcelona

A month of car rental in Barcelona comes down to three numbers and one habit. The numbers are €19 to €34 per day, weekly from €114 and monthly from €399, with the long-term rate worked out as daily × 21. The habit is planning the month before the keys change hands — because a 30-day booking behaves nothing like 30 separate days.

• Rate check: compare any quote against €399 a month and €114 a week, since those are the two figures the whole pricing structure is built on.
• Pick the car for how you drive, not for its badge: 23 of the 24 cars here are Economy, and the split between 4 and 5 seats or between Petrol and Petrol/LPG matters more over four weeks than a €2 daily difference.
• Read the agreement before you sign it: the deposit, the excess and any delivery charge live in that document, and none of them is a figure on this page.

Two details catch people out over a full month. The first is the arithmetic — a 30-day booking is billed as daily × 21, so the monthly total is not simply 30 daily rates, and anyone comparing offers should compare them on that basis. The second is the paperwork: licences issued outside the EU/EEA are valid here while they are in force, and the DGT advises getting an international driving permit before travelling. Neither of those is something to settle on the morning of collection.

What a month actually buys you is the end of daily logistics — no repeat hand-overs, no re-booking, one car parked outside your door for four weeks.