Nissan car rental in Barcelona

Our fleet of Nissan cars for rent in Barcelona includes 4 vehicles, from the compact Nissan Juke at €43 per day to the Nissan GT-R Black Edition at €756 per day. We deliver the car to you anywhere in Barcelona — at the airport, the station or your hotel — and every booking is agreed with a manager, who confirms the exact meeting point and time with you.

Which Nissan model fits your Barcelona car rental trip

Four Nissans sit on this page, and the choice between them comes down to seats, gearbox and how far you plan to leave the city. We deliver any of the four to your address in Barcelona and agree the booking with a manager.

The four Nissans we deliver

Class matters more than the price tag here: the jump from five seats to seven changes what you can pack, and the GT-R changes who can ride with you at all.

Juke or Qashqai for city driving

The Nissan Juke is the cheapest car on the page at €43 a day, and the Qashqai adds a 1.3 L hybrid for €48. Both are five-seat front-wheel-drive crossovers with a manual gearbox, so the real difference sits in the engine bay and behind the rear seats — the Qashqai's 140 hp against the Juke's 114 hp, and the Qashqai's longer body. The Juke runs a 1.0 L petrol/hybrid unit, which is the lighter of the two in stop-start traffic. In our experience, the Juke is the one people pick when they plan to park in Ciutat Vella and L'Eixample, where a shorter car is simply easier to slot into an AREA Blava bay. If you expect two adults plus luggage for a week, take the Qashqai — the extra length pays for itself in the boot.

X-Trail for a family of five and the GT-R for two

• Nissan X-Trail: seven seats, a 1.5 L hybrid with 163 hp, automatic gearbox and a choice of front-wheel drive or AWD at €60 a day.
• Nissan GT-R Black Edition: a four-seat coupe with a 3.8 L engine, 570 hp, automatic and permanent AWD at €756 a day.
• X-Trail for the mountains: the AWD variant is the one to request for the Pyrenees and La Cerdanya, where the C-16 climbs hard.
• GT-R for the coast road: two people, light bags, and the run down to Sitges or along the Costa Brava.
• Booking both: the drive type and seat count are fixed per model, so state which one you need when the manager confirms.

Seven seats in the X-Trail are mostly about luggage, not passengers — fold the third row and you get a boot that swallows a family's worth of bags, which is why we suggest it for a group of five rather than a group of seven.

What Nissan car rental in Barcelona costs

Daily rates on this page run from €43 for the Juke to €756 for the GT-R Black Edition. Longer bookings change the arithmetic: a week is charged as six days, a month as twenty-one, so the same car costs less per day the longer you keep it.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates by model

A seven-day Juke booking therefore comes to €258, and a Qashqai held for three weeks costs €1,008. Run the sum before you commit to dates: keeping a car for twenty-one days rather than three separate weekly hires of the same model is where the difference shows, and the terms attached to your reservation are set out in the rental agreement.

What the rate includes and what is agreed when booking

It does not cover the car itself or the driver.

Everything else that shapes the final bill is set out in the rental agreement: the deposit preauthorised on a credit card, the franquicia you carry for damage or theft, the waivers that reduce it, and any surcharge that applies to your booking. We do not publish those figures here, because they depend on the model, the cover you choose and the terms attached to your reservation — the manager who confirms your booking tells you the amounts before anything is signed. In our experience the question worth asking at that point is not what the daily rate is, but what you would pay if the car came back with a scuffed bumper.

Hybrid, petrol or 570 hp Nissan car rental in Barcelona

Three of the four Nissans on this page run on hybrid power, and the fourth is a 3.8 L twin-turbo petrol coupe. The split matters more than the badge: a hybrid saves fuel in stop-start traffic, while the GT-R exists for the drive itself.

Hybrid and petrol engines across the range

The Qashqai and X-Trail are hybrids, the Juke is petrol/hybrid, and the GT-R Black Edition is pure petrol. The Qashqai pairs a 1.3 L engine with 140 hp, the X-Trail a 1.5 L with 163 hp, and the Juke a 1.0 L with 114 hp. The GT-R Black Edition carries a 3.8 L unit rated at 570 hp. All four accept petrol, and the three hybrids run on a petrol-electric mix rather than plug-in charging. If your route is mostly motorway to Girona or Tarragona, the cheaper Juke makes more sense than paying a hybrid premium for a benefit you rarely collect.

Automatic or manual, front-wheel or AWD

• Nissan Juke: manual gearbox with front-wheel drive, a 1.0 L engine and 114 hp — the lightest and easiest of the four in tight Ciutat Vella streets.
• Nissan Qashqai: also manual and front-wheel drive, but the 1.3 L hybrid and 140 hp give it noticeably more pull on the C-16 climb towards the Pyrenees.
• Nissan X-Trail: automatic with front-wheel drive or AWD, 1.5 L hybrid and 163 hp, and the only seven-seat Nissan on this page.
• Nissan GT-R Black Edition: automatic with AWD, 3.8 L and 570 hp — a four-seat coupe, not a family car.
• What AWD changes: it earns its place on the mountain roads towards La Cerdanya and the Pyrenees in wet or snowy conditions, and adds little on the flat city grid.

The X-Trail is the one to book if you want all-wheel drive without giving up seats, since it offers AWD alongside the automatic gearbox and the 1.5 L hybrid. The GT-R also drives all four wheels, but with 570 hp and a coupe body it is a different proposition entirely — four seats, a low roofline and a price that reflects what it is.

Automatic or manual is settled when you book, and the manager confirms which gearbox is on the car you have chosen. Manual dominates the cheaper end of the range here: the Juke and Qashqai are both manual, so if an automatic gearbox is a firm requirement, the X-Trail and GT-R are the two Nissans that meet it.

Driving a Nissan car rental in Barcelona in the ZBE Rondes BCN

The Zona de Bajas Emisiones Rondas de Barcelona (ZBE Rondes BCN) covers more than 95 km² — the whole municipality of Barcelona 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 runs on working days, Monday to Friday. Which Nissan you book decides whether that matters at all: a hybrid carries the right distintivo ambiental, a 570 hp petrol coupe does not.

Which sticker your Nissan carries

The Qashqai and the X-Trail are hybrids, and the Juke runs on petrol/hybrid, so all three sit in the low-emission bands. The GT-R Black Edition is a 3.8 L petrol coupe with 570 hp and falls outside them. The sticker belongs on the windscreen, not in the glovebox — a hybrid sitting in a drawer is a hybrid with no access. The Qashqai comes in at €48 a day with 140 hp, the X-Trail at €60 with 163 hp and 7 seats, and the Juke at €43 with 114 hp.

Foreign plates and the Registre metropolità

Foreign-plate cars need prior registration in the Registre metropolità de vehicles estrangers i altres vehicles autoritzats a les zones de baixes emissions. If the car you drive into the ZBE Rondes BCN carries a non-Spanish plate, that step sits with the driver, and it is agreed when booking — not something to settle at the barrier. Ask which applies to your booking before you drive, because the two paths do not cross.

Parking and the ring roads once you are inside

Residential zones at weekends: resident-only restrictions relax, which frees kerbside space on Saturday and Sunday.

The Juke at €43 a day is the easiest of the four to slot into a blue bay; the X-Trail at 7 seats is not. On my last run through L'Eixample I watched a driver circle a single Blava A space three times in a long SUV — the parking tariff is the same, the car is not. If your days mix the centre with Montserrat or the Penedès wine country, book the hybrid and keep the GT-R for the drive where the road, not the kerb, is the point.

Collecting your Nissan car rental in Barcelona and where to drive

A Nissan booked with us is handed over at the address you give when booking, and the same booking call fixes the time window and the day you return it, so the hand-over is arranged around your arrival.

Delivery to your address

We deliver the car to you and collect it afterwards, which means the first and last hour of the booking belong to your trip, not to a depot. What the delivery covers, and any fee attached to it, is set out in the rental agreement before you confirm. Name the address and the time window when you book — the manager matches the hand-over to your flight or train arrival, so a delay at the airport does not turn into an empty hour at the kerb. For a seven-seat X-Trail, worth knowing: the car arrives fuelled and checked, and you drive it away yourself.

Where a Nissan can go from the city

• City centre (Ciutat Vella): the tightest streets in the city, where the 4-seat GT-R is a liability and the Juke at 1.0 L is the sane choice.
• L'Eixample, Gràcia, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: wide grid avenues and hill roads, comfortable in the Qashqai hybrid with its 1.3 L engine.
• Poblenou and the 22@ district: flat, quick to cross, easy parking outside the AREA Blava hours.
• Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport and Barcelona Sants railway station: both within the city, so a delivery there stays inside the same arrangement.
• Fira de Barcelona Gran Via: exhibition traffic in the surrounding streets, best reached early rather than at opening.

Day trips worth the fuel

The reason to take the X-Trail over the Juke is the road out of town: Sitges, Montserrat, Costa Brava, Girona, Tarragona and PortAventura, Penedès wine country, Andorra and the Pyrenees with La Cerdanya all sit within a day's drive, and the 7-seat hybrid with AWD handles the mountain sections of the C-16 far better than a front-wheel crossover. If you are heading for the Pyrenees, check the snow signs and boards before you leave; winter tyres are not a seasonal requirement in Spain, and restrictions are posted road by road when it snows.

Licence, gearbox and booking your Nissan car rental in Barcelona

That single detail decides how the paperwork goes: you tell us the dates, the model and where the car should be brought, and a manager confirms the rate and the hand-over point in writing.

Manual or automatic — what your licence needs to say

• Nissan Juke and Nissan Qashqai: both are manual, front-wheel drive, so your licence must cover a manual car — an automatic-only licence will not do.
• Nissan X-Trail: automatic with front-wheel or AWD, the simplest of the three for a driver who has never used a clutch pedal.
• Nissan GT-R Black Edition: automatic and AWD, 3.8 L and 570 hp — the same licence category as the others, a very different car underneath.
• Category B covers all four: the Juke, Qashqai, X-Trail and GT-R are all ordinary passenger cars in Spain, with no special endorsement needed.

Which licence is valid in Spain

An EU or EEA licence — including Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway — is fully valid in Spain until its expiry date, with nothing extra to arrange. A licence from a third country works if it is in force, if you are old enough for the equivalent category under Spanish rules, and if no more than six months have passed since you took up ordinary residence in Spain. A licence not written in Spanish is accepted either with an official certified translation or if it was issued on the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention. The DGT advises getting a Permiso Internacional de Conducción before the trip; it is a supplementary document, valid for one year, shown only together with your passport and your national licence. Bring the original identity document in the main driver's name — that part is a requirement of the company rather than a DGT rule, and the details are confirmed when booking.

What a manager settles before you drive

Minimum age, driving experience, the cards accepted for the deposit and any young-driver surcharge are agreed when booking, not stated as law — Spanish rules set 18 as the age at which you may drive a category B car, but conditions set by the company sit above that and vary. So does the fuel policy: lleno a lleno, full tank out and full tank back, is the common arrangement in Spain, and the return level is written into your agreement. The deposit is a preautorización on a credit card in the main driver's name, and its amount is set out in the agreement along with the franquicia and any excess waiver you choose. Ask the manager to confirm the return fuel level and the deposit figure in the same message as the booking — it is the cheapest way to avoid a disagreement at hand-over.

Booking a Nissan with Rent-Trip

Tell us the model, the dates and the address, and a manager replies with the confirmed rate and what the agreement will contain. Where the car is handed over is agreed the same way, so nothing about the meeting point is assumed on either side. If the model you booked is not available, Spanish consumer rules let you ask for another car at no extra cost, even one class above, and if you are given a lower class the price should come down; if the car does not match the agreed conditions, you may cancel the booking and have the prepayment returned. Check the condition report before you drive off — every scratch and dent should be written into the contract or the inspection sheet and signed by both sides, with a copy for you, or the damage can be pinned on you afterwards.

Insurance, deposit and the rental agreement

Every Nissan on this page is handed over with the mandatory Spanish cover already in the rate, and everything else — the deposit, the excess and any extras — is set out in the agreement you agree with a manager before the keys change hands.

What is included as standard

The quoted rate includes the Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, the compulsory third-party cover that Spanish law attaches to any car legally on the road. Its statutory limits are 70 million EUR per incident for personal injury, however many people are hurt, and 15 million EUR per incident for property damage, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025, with the current sums in force since 26.07.2025. That cover pays third parties — it does not pay for the driver, and it does not pay for the car itself. Damage to the Nissan, or its theft, is a separate question, and that is where the options below come in.

Optional protection you can add

• CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): removes your liability for damage to the car in a collision with another vehicle or an object, except for the franquicia; vandalism is excluded unless it happened while the car was in use.
• THW (Theft Protection): removes liability for partial or total theft and for vandalism damage, again except for the franquicia.
• 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 rather than the collision excess.
• WWI (Glass and Tyres Protection): a separate option for windscreens, windows and tyres, which basic CDW normally does not cover.

The excess, the deposit and the paperwork

The franquicia is the amount you pay yourself when there is damage, and it is printed in the agreement whether or not you have bought an excess buy-out; there is no single official figure for it, because it depends on the company and the class of car. The deposit is a preautorización — a hold placed on a credit card against possible damage and extras — and the amount is confirmed to you before the agreement is signed. Spanish consumer rules require the advertised price to include every compulsory charge you cannot legally drive without, and they require any scratch or dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, signed by both sides, with your copy staying with you. If the model you booked is not available, you are entitled to another car at no extra cost, even a class above; if you are given a lower class, the price should come down. Our own hand-over routine in Barcelona follows that same sequence, and the manager walks you through it line by line.

What we agree with you at booking

Minimum rental age, the young-driver surcharge, which cards are accepted, the fuel policy, whether the car may leave mainland Spain, the delivery fee and any discount are not fixed by Spanish law and not fixed by us in advance — they are agreed when you book, and they appear in the agreement. Ask before you confirm rather than after: a fuel policy or a cross-border service added later is harder to arrange than one agreed up front.