Long-term car rental

Our fleet for long-term car rental in Madrid holds 24 cars, from €14 a day, with weekly rates from €84 and monthly rates from €294. We deliver the car to you anywhere in Madrid — at the airport, the station or your address — and the booking is agreed with a manager.

What long-term car rental in Madrid means with Rent-Trip

Long-term car rental starts at one week and runs for a month or longer. The car comes to you rather than waiting at a counter, and every booking is agreed with a manager before anything is prepared.

How a long-term booking is agreed with a manager

We agree every long-term booking with a manager — dates, car and length are settled before the car is prepared. You tell us how long you need the vehicle, which class suits the trip and where the car should be handed over; the manager confirms what is free and what the final price is. Nothing is charged on assumptions: the deposit, any delivery fee and the excess are all set out in the rental agreement, and the manager explains them before you commit. A month-long booking is worth fixing early — the longer the period, the fewer cars stay free in the class you want. In our experience the Electric class, with only 4 cars on this page, is the first to go for a full month, so a booking for 30 days is better placed two or three weeks ahead.

The car is delivered to you, not collected from a desk

Rent-Trip delivers the car to the client, so a long-term hire starts where you are, not at a counter. You agree the hand-over point with the manager when booking — the exact spot, the time and who signs for the vehicle — and the car arrives there. Delivery details and any fees are set out in the rental agreement, so agree the exact point with the manager in advance rather than on the day. Long-term clients usually ask for the same place twice: once when the period begins and once when it ends, which keeps the return simple.

What «long-term» covers on this page

• One week or more: weekly pricing applies from €84, which is the daily rate multiplied by six.
• One month or more: monthly pricing applies from €294, the daily rate multiplied by twenty-one.
• The fleet: 24 cars on this page across Economy, Electric, Convertibles and Comfort, from €14 to €41 a day.
• The agreement: deposit, excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, never estimated in advance.
• The booking: dates, class and hand-over point are agreed with a manager, and the car is prepared after that.

A long booking is not a weekend extended — it changes which car makes sense, how the running costs add up and which rules apply on the street where the car will stand. The sections below take those one at a time, from class and price through to the documents and the city's low-emission zone.

Long-term car rental in Madrid by class and price

Long-term car rental in Madrid runs across four classes and 24 cars on this page, from €14 to €41 a day. Weekly works out at the daily rate times six, monthly at the daily rate times 21 — so the class you pick decides what a season of driving actually costs.

Classes and rates for long-term hire

The gap between classes looks small on a daily rate and stops looking small once you multiply it out. Weekly and monthly figures are the ones to compare when the booking runs past a fortnight — the cheapest Economy car starts at €14 a day, the Comfort Mini One at €41, and the monthly rate follows the same daily figure times 21.

Models in the long-term fleet and what each one gives you

• Smart Fortwo: 2 seats, 1.0 L Petrol, Manual, 71 hp — the cheapest way into long-term hire at €14 a day.
• Fiat Panda and Citroen C3: 5 seats, 1.0–1.2 L Petrol, Manual, 70–83 hp, €21–€23 a day for a full household.
• Fiat Pandina: the one Hybrid in the fleet — 5 seats, 1.0 L, Manual, 70 hp, €23 a day.
• Citroen e-C3 and Renault Zoe: Electric, Automatic, 113 and 135 hp, €30 and €34 a day, 5 seats each.
• Mini One: Comfort class, 4 seats, 1.5 L Petrol, Manual, 102 hp at €41 a day.

We keep 18 of the 24 cars in Economy, which is where most month-long bookings land. For a month of city driving, a 5-seat 1.0 L hatchback costs little more per day than a 2-seater and carries far more — the Smart Fortwo only makes sense if you drive alone and park in tight spots.

Choosing a car for long-term rental in Madrid

Long-term car rental in Madrid turns on three things: how many seats you need, what the car burns, and whether you want an automatic. Over a week or a month those choices shape both the bill and your daily routine more than they would on a weekend hire.

Seats, fuel and transmission over a long booking

Most cars here are Petrol with Manual transmission; the Electric class is Automatic, and one Hybrid — the Fiat Pandina — sits in Economy. The fleet runs from the 2-seat Smart Fortwo at €14 a day to the 4-seat Mini One at €41, with 4- and 5-seat hatchbacks filling the space between. Fiat Panda, Citroen C3, Dacia Sandero, Renault Clio, Hyundai i20 and Opel Corsa all carry five, and the Citroen e-C3 pairs five seats with an Automatic box and 113 hp at €30 a day. Transmission is the real dividing line: only the Electric cars and the Fiat Pandina come without a clutch pedal, so if you cannot drive a manual, your shortlist is four cars wide. In our experience a month of city driving makes that constraint matter far more than horsepower does — pick Automatic only if you genuinely need it, because it narrows the class hard.

Running costs on a long-term rental in Madrid

Gasolina 95 E5 averages €1.971 a litre in Madrid, while public charging sits at €0.20 per kWh. Both numbers are city averages, not our prices, and they are the ones to weigh against the daily rate. A 1.0 L petrol hatchback such as the Kia Picanto or Toyota Aygo X stays cheap to fill and cheap to rent; the Electric class starts at €30 a day, roughly double the cheapest petrol car, so the fuel saving has to earn back that gap over your booking. On a month of short trips it usually can — but only if charging is convenient where the car actually stands overnight.

What to weigh before you reserve

• Seats: 2, 4 or 5 — a 5-seat 1.0 L hatchback costs little more per day than a 2-seater and carries far more.
• Fuel: Electric, Hybrid or Petrol — the Fiat Pandina is the only Hybrid, and it sits in Economy at €23 a day.
• Transmission: Automatic or Manual — Automatics are limited to the Electric class plus the Pandina.
• Engine size: 1.0 L to 1.5 L — the 1.5 L Mini One at €41 a day is the largest and dearest on this page.
• Rate length: weekly is daily × 6 and monthly is daily × 21, so the monthly figure is the one that decides a long booking.

Tell the manager your seat count, fuel preference and gearbox when you book — that is when the car is matched to you and the terms of the rental agreement are set out.

ZBE Madrid rules and long-term car rental in Madrid

Low-emission rules decide where a long-term car can actually go. Madrid runs ZBE Madrid (Zona de Bajas Emisiones de Madrid), and its reach covers all urban streets of the municipality — all 21 districts — so a car kept for a month lives inside the zone whether you drive it or leave it parked.

Who may enter ZBE Madrid and who may not

• No DGT sticker (category A): petrol cars registered before 2000 and diesel cars registered before 2005 cannot enter — the sticker is not an option you can buy later.
• 0 emisiones (blue): battery-electric, range-extended and hydrogen cars carry the strongest access rights inside the zone.
• ECO: hybrids and similar low-emission cars sit one step below the blue label.
• Foreign plates: cars with foreign registration have no DGT sticker and must be registered in advance.

What this means for a month-long booking

Our long-term car rental in Madrid is built around cars that already meet the access rules, so you are not shopping for a sticker on top of the rental. The Electric class holds 4 cars from €30 a day — Citroen e-C3, Fiat 500e, Renault Zoe and Peugeot e-208, all Automatic — and the Hybrid Fiat Pandina sits in Economy at €23 a day. A petrol hatchback from the same class is cheaper per day, but the label on the windscreen decides which districts the car may enter. We keep the paperwork side simple: the rental agreement carries the car's details, and anything beyond that is agreed when booking.

Madrid's parking scheme rewards the same labels. A 0 emisiones sticker parks in SER zones on the resident terms, an ECO sticker takes 75% off resident season tickets, and blue bays cap you at 4 hours while green bays cap you at 2 — the meters run 09:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–15:00 on Saturday. On a month-long rental that matters more than on a weekend, because the car is standing in the city every night, not just for two days.

The rules are being tightened, not relaxed

Since 00:00 on 07.04.2026 a new transitional provision has been in force under Ordenanza 2/2026 of 24.03.2026, and the rules inside the zone apply to every car that is kept there. Before you commit to a month, confirm the class against the address where the car will actually live — a 0 emisiones car covers every district, while a petrol car without a sticker covers none of them.

Documents for long-term car rental in Madrid

Every long-term booking is agreed with a manager before the car is prepared, and the paperwork follows the same route: what you hold, what the agreement states, and what changes over a month rather than a weekend.

What the driver needs to hold

• EU/EEA licence: fully valid in Spain while it has not expired, with nothing further required and no IDP needed.
• Third-country licence: valid for driving in Spain if it is in force, if the holder is old enough for the equivalent category, and for no more than six months from the moment they take up ordinary residence in Spain.
• Licence not in Spanish: valid either with an official certified translation into Spanish or if it was issued under Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• International Driving Permit: never stands alone — it is shown only alongside the passport and the national licence, and it runs for one year.
• Passport or ID: the original document in the main driver's name; companies ask for it, though the DGT sets no single rule.

The agreement and the deposit

The agreement carries the terms that matter on a long stay: the fuel policy, the deposit, the excess and the delivery arrangements. We do not put figures for any of these on this page — the deposit amount, the insurance excess, delivery fees and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, and the manager confirms them with you when the booking is agreed. A credit card in the main driver's name is the usual instrument for the deposit; debit cards are often not accepted, but that is the practice of the individual company rather than a rule of Spanish law. Read the excess line before you sign anything, because on a month-long booking it applies to the whole period, not to a single day.

If something goes wrong on the road

Spanish law answers the question of who pays a fine on a hired car. Parking fines and unpaid motorway tolls fall on the owner or the renter of the vehicle, while moving offences, alcohol and drugs fall on whoever was driving. Where an offence was not handed over at the roadside, the owner or the renter answers — the DGT names both vehículos de alquiler and de renting here — until it is established who was actually at the wheel. For long-term car rental in Madrid that distinction is worth keeping in mind: the agreement names the drivers, and only those named may take the wheel. Photograph the car and note every scratch in the hand-over document before you drive away — the consumer authority expects damage to be written into the contract or the inspection sheet before departure, signed by both sides, with a copy kept by the renter. Without that record, later damage is charged to you.

Insurance and excess in long-term car rental in Madrid

Every car we hand over for a long-term booking carries the compulsory Spanish liability cover, and the money question on any long-term car rental in Madrid is not whether you are insured but how much of the damage bill you carry yourself. Two separate things sit behind that: the legal cover that comes with the car and the optional waivers that shrink your exposure.

What is included with a long-term car rental in Madrid

• Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil: compulsory third-party cover that comes with every car legally on a Spanish road and is part of the rental by default.
• Limits: 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury, however many people are hurt, and 15,000,000 EUR per incident for property damage.
• Basis: Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2 as amended by Ley 5/2025, with the sums in force since 26.07.2025.
• What it does not cover: the driver and the car itself — only harm caused to third parties.
• Driving without it: 601–3005 EUR depending on the circumstances.

Waivers and the excess you carry

On top of the compulsory cover, the waivers are what decide your real risk on a month-long booking. CDW removes part of your liability for bodywork damage, and you stay responsible for a franquicia — the excess printed in the rental agreement whatever the class of car. Super CDW, Zero Excess and Full Protection buy that excess down, and the price of that sits in the agreement too. Theft protection works the same way for a full or partial theft, again up to the excess. Glass and tyres usually fall outside basic CDW, and vandalism is excluded unless it happened while the car was in your use. Excess amounts vary by class and by company, and there is no single official tariff — so ask for the figure before you sign, not after.

Damage, deposit and the paperwork

The deposit and the excess are not the same number: the deposit is a pre-authorisation held on a card against possible damage and extras, and the excess is the ceiling on what you actually pay. Both are set out in the rental agreement, and the amount is told to you before signing. Spanish consumer rules give you two useful levers on a long booking — the advertised price must include every compulsory charge you cannot legally drive without, and every scratch and dent has to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, signed by both sides, with your copy staying with you. In our experience, a car kept for a month collects more small marks than a weekend rental, so photograph the sheet and keep it with the agreement until the car goes back.

Driving and parking on a long-term rental in Madrid

We set out what a month of driving here looks like in practice.

Parking zones and hours

• SER zona azul (blue): paid street parking for visitors, maximum stay 4 hours at a time.
• SER zona verde (green): paid parking with priority for residents, maximum stay 2 hours.
• Charging hours: weekdays 09:00–21:00, Saturday 09:00–15:00; outside those windows the marked bays are free.
• Resident permits: holders of a 0 emisiones or ECO DGT sticker get a 75% discount on resident parking subscriptions.
• Long-term habit: on a month-long booking, use a garage near where the car actually stands overnight rather than chasing street bays daily.

Speed limits and fines you will meet over a month

• Autopista and autovía: 120 km/h for passenger cars.
• Ordinary out-of-town road (vía convencional): 90 km/h.
• City street with one lane each way: 30 km/h; streets with a single platform for road and pavement run at 20 km/h, and streets with two or more lanes in one direction at 50 km/h.
• Speeding fines: 100 EUR without points, then 300 EUR and 2 points, 400 EUR and 4 points, 500 EUR and 6 points, up to 600 EUR and 6 points.
• Phone in hand: 200 EUR and 6 points; held otherwise, 200 EUR.
• Seat belt or child seat: 200 EUR and 4 points. Child restraints are required for anyone 135 cm or shorter.
• Prompt payment: a 50% discount applies if the fine is paid within 20 days.

Tolls, the ZBE and what changes over a month

The M-30, M-40, M-45 and M-50 rings and the radial A-1 to A-6 motorways carry no toll, while the R-2, R-3 and R-4 radials are paid. The ZBE covers every street of the municipality, and a car without a DGT environmental sticker cannot enter it. Our Electric class — 4 cars from €30 a day — carries the 0 emisiones label, which settles the question for a month of city driving. On the long booking we hand over the car with the paperwork in the rental agreement, and any charge for a toll or a parking ticket is settled as the agreement sets out. Check where the car will stand overnight before you fix the class: charging and garage access decide more about a month than the daily rate does.

Practical conclusions on long-term car rental in Madrid

• Monthly figure, not the daily one: the class gap widens over a month — Economy from €294 is the number to compare, not €14 a day.
• Fuel and charging: Gasolina 95 E5 averages €1.971 a litre; public charging in Spain sits at €0.20 per kWh.
• ZBE Madrid: the low-emission zone covers all 21 districts, so the car you book has to be one that may enter.
• Delivery, deposit and excess: the car is delivered to you; the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement.
• Automatic narrows the field: the Electric class is Automatic; most of the fleet is Manual Petrol.

The ZBE Madrid sticker question is the one that catches people out on a long booking. A car kept for a month lives inside the zone far more than a weekend hire does — it is parked, driven to work, left overnight in Centro or Salamanca, and every one of those movements happens inside the same boundary. So the class you pick at booking is really a question about where the car will stand, not about how far you plan to drive. Decide that first, then choose between the 18 Economy cars and the 4 Electric ones.

On running cost, the arithmetic is simple enough. Gasolina 95 E5 averages €1.971 a litre, and a month of short city trips on a 1.0 L hatchback adds up quickly; public charging at €0.20 per kWh does not. But the Electric class is four cars, all Automatic, from €30 a day — and charging has to be practical near the address where the car will actually sit overnight, not near a station you pass once a week. We would rather see a client take a Petrol Economy car and be relaxed about it than an electric one that spends the month hunting for a free connector.

Two things are worth settling before the car is prepared. First, the period: weekly works out at daily × 6 and monthly at daily × 21, so the monthly figure is the one that decides whether a class is affordable over four weeks. Second, the paperwork side — the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement, and the minimum age, the cards accepted and the fuel policy are agreed when booking, never assumed. Get those three straight with the manager in one conversation and the rest of the booking is a formality.