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By car to Alcalá de Henares
Kenan AlkanCity and intercity driver
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Fifty-one cars are available for car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares, from €41 per day, with weekly bookings from €246 and monthly from €861. We deliver the car to you in Madrid and agree the booking details with a manager.
Why a car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares beats the train
Alcalá de Henares sits about 35 km north-east of the city, and the A-2 covers almost the whole run.
How far is Alcalá de Henares from Madrid by road
Alcalá de Henares sits roughly 35 km north-east of the capital, straight along the A-2. The A-2 links the capital and Alcalá directly, so there is no need to thread through smaller roads or change onto a second highway.
The A-2 drive with car rental in Madrid for Alcalá de Henares
Speed limits and fuel on the way
- Town streets: 30 km/h on a street with one lane in each direction, 20 km/h where pavement and roadway form a single platform, 50 km/h where there are two or more lanes each way.
One thing worth knowing before you set off: the speed table the DGT works from is built on the pair of permitted limit and actual speed, not on how far over you went. On a 30 km/h street, 31–50 km/h is €100 with no points, and it climbs from there.
Choosing a car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares by class and seats
The right car for the run to Alcalá de Henares depends on three things: how many people travel, how much luggage goes with them, and whether the driver wants a manual or an automatic. Our Madrid page carries 51 cars across four classes, from €41 to €108 a day.
Classes, seats and daily prices
| Class | Cars | From, per day | Seats | Example model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comfort | 15 | €41 | 4–5 | Mini One |
| Minivans | 18 | €42 | 5–7 | Ford C-Max |
| Crossover | 10 | €48 | 5 | Nissan Juke |
Automatic, hybrid and diesel options
- Automatic: Citroen C4 Picasso, Renault Scenic, Peugeot 308, Audi A1 Sportback, Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Sharan come with a self-shifting gearbox.
- Diesel: Ford C-Max, Ford Focus Estate, Renault Kadjar and Volkswagen Sharan use gasóleo A, the grade printed on Spanish pumps.
- Petrol: Mini One, Hyundai i30, Ford Focus and Seat Leon take Gasolina 95 E5, which averaged €1.971 a litre in the Madrid sample.
Seven-seat MPVs for a family run
Seven-seat MPVs on our fleet include Nissan NV200, Dacia Lodgy, Opel Zafira, Volkswagen Sharan, Ford Galaxy, Ford S-Max and BMW 2 Series Gran Tourer. The Nissan NV200 and Dacia Lodgy are the cheapest route to seven seats at €48 and €50 a day, while the Volkswagen Sharan and Ford Galaxy add automatic transmission and a 2.0 L diesel at €62 and €64. An SRI — sistema de retención infantil — is required for any child 135 cm or shorter, and DGT recommends one up to 150 cm.
Prices for car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares, weekly and monthly
Our page carries 51 cars priced from €41 to €108 a day, and the longer you keep the car the lower the day rate works out: a week is charged at six days, a month at twenty-one.
The spread between the cheapest and the dearest car on this page is €67 a day, and it is not a spread between good and bad cars. Pick the class by the people travelling, then look at the price.
What a week and a month actually cost
- Comfort, from €41 a day: weekly from €246, monthly from €861 — the cheapest way to cover the Alcalá run in a Mini One, Hyundai i30, Ford Focus, Opel Astra or Seat Leon.
- Minivans, from €42 a day: 18 cars, weekly from €252, monthly from €882 — the class to take when the group is five or seven, from the Ford C-Max up to the Volkswagen Sharan and Ford Galaxy.
- SUV, from €58 a day: 8 cars, weekly from €348, monthly from €1,218 — Dacia Duster, Renault Kadjar, Ford Kuga, Hyundai Tucson.
Where the money goes over a longer booking
A weekly booking is billed as six days, so the daily figure you see on the card is not what a seven-day trip costs: multiply by six and you get the total. A month works the same way at twenty-one days. On a Comfort car at €41 that is €246 for the week and €861 for the month — the arithmetic is fixed, not negotiated, and it applies to every class on the page.
Two things are not on the price card. The deposit and any excess are set out in the rental agreement, and the delivery of the car to you in Madrid is agreed when booking.
Take a Minivan or an SUV only if you need the seats or the boot — the extra €1 to €17 a day buys space, not speed.
Picking up your car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares
Rent-Trip does not run a counter you have to find. We bring the car to the address you give us, and the time and the place are agreed with a manager when you book. That covers the airport terminals, the two main stations and any hotel or flat inside the city.
How delivery works
- Where we hand over: the address you name — Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, Madrid-Chamartín Clara Campoamor, or a street address in the centre.
- When: the slot is fixed with the manager, so it fits your flight or train rather than a branch opening time.
- The deposit and the excess are set out in the rental agreement.
- Driving licence: an EU or EEA licence is valid in Spain as it stands, with no international permit needed. Licences from outside the EEA are accepted for driving as a visitor; the DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip.
Documents and the agreement
If your licence is not written in Latin script, it is valid in Spain only with an official translation or with an international driving permit, so sort that out before the hand-over slot rather than during it.
Our fleet at a glance
Our fleet here covers 51 cars from €41 to €108 a day, in four classes: Comfort from €41, Minivans from €42, Crossover from €48 and SUV from €58. Seats run from 4 to 7, fuel from petrol and diesel to hybrid, and both manual and automatic gearboxes are available. Families who need the third row should name the seat count at booking — the seven-seat MPVs such as the Nissan NV200, Dacia Lodgy and Opel Zafira carry the whole group, and the seat count is agreed when booking.
Rules and ZBE with car rental in Madrid for Alcalá de Henares
The rules below are the ones that matter on the run out to Alcalá de Henares and back.
Speed limits you will actually meet on this route
A car on an autovía runs at 120 km/h, an ordinary out-of-town road at 90 km/h, and the city drops to 30 km/h on a street with one lane in each direction. Streets built on a single platform shared with the pavement are 20 km/h, and streets with two or more lanes each way are 50 km/h — bus and taxi lanes do not count when you add up the lanes. Speed fines are not graded by how far over you went but by the pair of allowed limit and actual speed: on a 30 km/h street, 31–50 km/h costs €100 with no points, 51–60 km/h costs €300 and 2 points, 61–70 km/h costs €400 and 4 points, 71–80 km/h costs €500 and 6 points, and anything above 81 km/h costs €600 and 6 points. The same ladder applies on a 120 km/h autovía from 121 km/h upward. Driving more than 60 km/h over the limit in town, or 80 km/h over it outside town, stops being a fine and becomes a criminal offence — so keep the cruise control honest on the A-2.
Alcohol, phones and child seats
- Alcohol: the general limit is 0,25 mg/l of breath, dropping to 0,15 mg/l for drivers in their first two years and for professionals; above 0,60 mg/l it is a criminal matter, and the fine band is €500–€1000 with 4–6 points.
- Phone: €200, and 6 points rather than 3 if the handset was held.
- Seat belts and child seats: €200 and 4 points, and the driver carries the responsibility for a child travelling without a restraint.
- Child restraints (SRI): compulsory for anyone 135 cm or shorter, with DGT recommending them up to 150 cm.
- Red lights and STOP signs: €200 and 4 points; driving the wrong way or in a forbidden lane runs €200–€500 and up to 6 points.
- Paying early: a 50% reduction applies if you pay within 20 calendar days.
The ZBE Madrid low-emission zone
ZBE Madrid (Zona de Bajas Emisiones de Madrid) covers all urban streets of the municipality — every one of its 21 districts — and cars without a DGT environmental badge, category A, are the ones shut out: petrol registered before 2000 and diesel before 2005. Under Ordenanza 2/2026 of 24.03.2026, transitional provision seven, the arrangement changed from 00:00 on 07.04.2026. Foreign-registered cars have no DGT badge at all and must be registered in advance, which is why we hand over a Spanish-plated car with its badge already in place.
What to settle before you book car rental in Madrid for a trip to Alcalá de Henares
Two things decide whether this booking goes smoothly: the size of the car against the size of your group, and the paperwork each driver carries. Everything else — delivery, timing, the class you end up with — is agreed with a manager before the car is handed over, so nothing is left to guesswork on the day of the run to Alcalá de Henares.
What to confirm with the manager before the booking is fixed
- Delivery point and time: tell us where you want the car brought in Madrid and at what hour — both are agreed when booking, not invented afterwards.
- Driving licence: EU and EEA licences are valid in Spain as they stand, until they expire. Licences from outside the EEA are valid for driving as a tourist; residents may use them for no more than six months from the date they take up ordinary residence in Spain, after which they must be exchanged (canje).
- Licences not in Latin script: a third-country licence is valid in Spain only if it is written in Spanish, or carries an official translation, or was issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention. For Cyrillic, Arabic and character-based scripts this in practice means an International Driving Permit or a certified translation.
- Car class and seats: the fleet on this page runs from a Mini One at €41 a day to a seven-seat MPV, so say whether you need four, five or seven seats and whether you want petrol, diesel or hybrid, manual or automatic — the class is agreed when booking.
What the law fixes in advance, so you can stop worrying about it
Compulsory third-party cover is part of any legally roadworthy car in Spain and comes with the booking by default, under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2, as amended by Ley 5/2025 — the minimums are €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury and €15,000,000 for property damage, in force since 26.07.2025.
On the A-2 the car runs at 120 km/h; in town the limit is 30 km/h on streets with one lane in each direction, 20 km/h where road and pavement form a single platform, and 50 km/h where there are two or more lanes each way. Speed fines follow the DGT table, which works off the pair of permitted limit and actual speed: on a 30 km/h street, 31–50 km/h costs €100 with no points, 51–60 km/h €300 with 2 points, 61–70 km/h €400 with 4 points, and anything above 81 km/h €600 with 6 points. Above 60 km/h over the limit in town it stops being an administrative fine at all. Alcohol limits are 0.25 mg/l of breath for ordinary drivers and 0.15 mg/l for drivers in their first two years; a phone held in the hand is €200 and 6 points. Pay within 20 days and the fine drops by 50%.