Monthly car rental

A week of errands, school runs and weekend trips out to Toledo or Segovia is easier when the car stays with you — so Rent-Trip arranges monthly car rental in Madrid with the vehicle brought to the address you give us. Our Madrid fleet holds 24 cars, from a Smart Fortwo at €14 a day to a Mini One at €41, with weekly rates from €84 and monthly car rental from €294.

What a month of car rental in Madrid costs

A month of car rental in Madrid with us is priced from the daily rate, not from a package figure: our monthly rate starts at €294, and our weekly rate starts at €84. The cars on this page run from €14 to €41 a day across four classes.

How the monthly rate is built from the daily rate

Our monthly rate starts from €294, which is the daily rate × 21, and our weekly rate starts from €84, which is the daily rate × 6. Both multipliers are fixed, so you can work out the whole booking from one number: a Smart Fortwo at €14 a day comes to €294 a month, a Citroen C3 at €23 a day comes to €483, and a Mini One at €41 a day comes to €861. The longer you keep the car, the lower the effective cost of a single day — that is the whole point of the multiplier, and it is why the monthly figure is worth comparing against the daily one rather than against a headline «package». In our practice, the clients who decide their length of stay first and their car second get the most out of the booking.

Prices by class on this page

What the price includes and what is set out in the agreement

• Compulsory insurance: every car legally on the road in Spain carries the Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil, with limits of 70,000,000 EUR per incident for personal injury and 15,000,000 EUR for property damage.
• The deposit: the amount blocked on the main driver's card is set out in the rental agreement, and the figure is confirmed before you commit.
• The excess: CDW is an option that leaves the franquicia with you; the amount is printed in the agreement, never quoted in advance.
• Delivery: the car is brought to you, and any delivery arrangement is agreed with a manager when you book.
• Discounts: any reduction on a longer booking is set out in the rental agreement rather than advertised as a standing rate.

Most of our monthly bookings land on an Economy car, because that class covers almost every daily need at the lowest entry price — but if your month includes regular city-centre driving, an Electric car is worth the higher daily rate.

Renting for 30 days and who may drive

A month is the standard term for a long stay, and the two things that decide the booking are the driving licence and where the driver is resident.

Booking a monthly car rental in Madrid for 30 days or longer

We arrange a monthly car rental in Madrid for 30 days or longer, and the booking is agreed with a manager — you tell us the dates, the class and where the car should be handed over, and we confirm the terms before anything is fixed. Weekly bookings run from €84, which is the daily rate × 6, and a full month from €294, the daily rate × 21; the same multipliers apply to every car in our fleet of 24 on this page. The term itself is written into the rental agreement, so the return date is not something either side has to remember informally. In our practice the awkward cases are never the first month — they are the second one. If you already know you will need the car for longer, say so when you book and we will set the longer term out from the start rather than re-doing the paperwork mid-rental.

EU, EEA and third-country licences

• EU and EEA licences: valid in Spain exactly as they are, for as long as they have not expired — no international permit and no translation needed.
• Third-country licences, tourists: valid for driving in Spain as a visitor, provided the licence is still in force and the holder meets the Spanish age requirement for the equivalent category.
• Third-country licences, residents: valid for no more than six months from the date you take up ordinary residence in Spain; after that the licence has to be exchanged (canje).
• Licences not in Latin script: Cyrillic, Arabic and character-based licences are accepted only if issued in Spanish, accompanied by an official translation, or drawn up to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention.
• Permiso Internacional de Conducción: on its own it proves nothing — the DGT treats it as a supporting document shown together with the passport and the national licence, and it runs for one year.

Documents and the minimum age

• Identity document: the original, in the name of the main driver — this is what rental companies ask for, and there is no single DGT rule behind it.
• Credit card: held in the main driver's name for the deposit; debit cards are often not accepted, but that is a condition of the individual rental company, not a rule of Spanish law.
• Minimum age: you may drive in Spain from 18 (category B); rental companies as a rule start at 21, some at 23, and ask for at least one year of holding the licence.
• Young-driver surcharge: the amount and whether it applies to you are agreed when booking — there is no general norm to quote.

What the price covers on a long booking

The compulsory cover is the one line you never have to think about: Spanish law puts it in every rental and it applies even if the person driving was not named in the agreement, though it pays third parties and not the car itself. The franquicia is the opposite — it is printed in the agreement whether or not you buy an excess waiver, so read that line before you sign rather than after.

ZBE Madrid, DGT stickers and a rental car in the city

ZBE Madrid (Zona de Bajas Emisiones de Madrid) covers every city street in all 21 districts, and the DGT environmental sticker on the windscreen decides whether a car may enter. A car from our fleet takes that question off your desk — but only if you know which class you are booking.

Which cars may enter ZBE Madrid

ZBE Madrid covers all city streets in all 21 districts, and cars without a DGT environmental sticker — category A, petrol registered before 2000 and diesel before 2005 — may not enter. Our electric vehicles carry the 0 emisiones sticker, the blue one, which settles the centre without a second thought. Economy models such as the Smart Fortwo at €14 a day, the Peugeot 108 at €17 or the Renault Clio at €25 are petrol and carry the sticker their registration year earns them. The practical rule from our side: if your month is built around Gran Vía, Centro and Barrio de Salamanca, book the electric class and stop checking maps before every trip.

Foreign plates and long stays

Cars with foreign plates have no DGT sticker and must be registered in advance. That paperwork sits with the owner of the car, not with the driver, which is exactly why a Spanish-plated vehicle removes the problem at the root. If you are moving to the city and keeping your own car, the registration is yours to file; for a month behind the wheel of ours, it never reaches you. Worth knowing before you commit to a long stay: the sticker belongs to the vehicle, so a change of car mid-month means a change of sticker.

What the agreement sets out

• Sticker category: the DGT class of the car you book is stated in the rental agreement, so check it against your daily routes before signing.
• Delivery: the car is delivered to you, and the booking is agreed with a manager, so the class and its sticker are confirmed before the keys change hands.
• Fines: for parking and unpaid motorway tolls the registered owner or the renter answers; for moving offences, alcohol and drugs it is whoever was driving.
• Registration: if you drive on foreign plates, registering them in advance is your task, not something the agreement covers.

In our practice the sticker question comes up most from guests staying a full month in Centro — and the answer is usually the electric class rather than a daily detour around the zone.

Choosing your monthly car rental in Madrid by class and model

Twenty-four cars sit on this page across four classes, and the choice between them comes down to three things: how many seats you need, whether you want a manual or an automatic, and whether you plan to drive into the city centre. Our monthly hire runs from €14 to €41 a day, so a month lands between €294 and €861 depending on what you pick.

Economy: 18 cars from €14 a day

• Smart Fortwo — €14/day: two seats, 1.0 L, 71 hp, petrol, manual, rear-wheel drive; the smallest thing we have and the easiest to park in Centro.
• Smart Forfour — €16/day: the same 71 hp drivetrain with four seats instead of two, so it takes two passengers in the back without growing much in size.
• Peugeot 108 — €17/day: four seats, 1.0 L, 72 hp, front-wheel drive, petrol, manual — a step up in boot space over the Smart pair.
• Hyundai i10 and Kia Picanto — €18–€19/day: both 1.0 L and 67 hp, four seats, front-wheel drive; near-identical on paper, so pick whichever is free on your dates.
• Toyota Aygo X and Fiat Panda — €20–€21/day: the Aygo X carries four at 72 hp, the Panda five at 70 hp — the first point where a fifth passenger fits.
• Fiat 500, Citroen C3, Fiat Pandina, Dacia Sandero — €22–€24/day: from the 70 hp 500 up to the 91 hp Sandero; the Pandina is the only hybrid in this group.
• Renault Clio, Hyundai i20, Opel Corsa, Peugeot 208, Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Polo, Seat Ibiza — €25–€35/day: five seats and 90–102 hp, the band most monthly bookings land in.

Electric, Convertible and Comfort: the other six cars

Four Electric cars start at €30 a day: the Citroen e-C3 (113 hp), Fiat 500e (118 hp), Renault Zoe (135 hp) and Peugeot e-208 (136 hp), all automatic and front-wheel drive. One Convertible sits on the page — the Fiat 500C at €30 a day, four seats, 70 hp, manual. Comfort is a single car, the Mini One at €41 a day: 1.5 L, 102 hp, four seats, manual.

What actually decides it over thirty days

Seats and transmission matter more than badge. Two of our cars have two seats, nineteen have five, and the rest take four; if you are ferrying family or colleagues daily, the difference between a Smart Forfour and a Dacia Sandero is the difference between a workable month and a cramped one. On transmission, only the four Electric cars are automatic — every other car on this page is manual, which is worth knowing before you book if you have not driven a stick shift in years. If your month includes regular trips into the city centre, the Electric group also settles the ZBE Madrid question outright, since those cars carry the 0 emisiones DGT sticker. Class, seats and gearbox are fixed when you book with a manager, so decide those three before anything else.

Where a monthly car rental in Madrid takes you

A month gives you the range a weekend never does: Sierra de Guadarrama on a Saturday, Toledo on a Tuesday, and a supermarket run in between. All of it starts from €14 a day on this page.

Day trips that fit a monthly booking

• Toledo: 70 km south-west on the A-42, an hour each way; the old town is a compact stop for a day.
• Segovia: the A-6 north-west, roughly 90 minutes; the aqueduct and the Alcázar sit close to the centre.
• Ávila: the same corridor, about 110 km; the medieval walls are the reason most people come.
• San Lorenzo de El Escorial: 45 minutes from the north-west edge of the city, past Las Rozas.
• Aranjuez and Chinchón: the A-4 south, an hour or less; both sit well inside a full tank.
• Alcalá de Henares: 35 km east on the A-2, the shortest of the lot.

What a month of driving actually looks like

The city itself is the easy part. The M-30, M-40, M-45 and M-50 ring roads and the radial A-1 to A-6 motorways are all toll-free — the paid radials are the R-2, R-3 and R-4, and you can simply not take them. Speeds are 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on a conventional road outside town, and 50 km/h on a city street with two or more lanes each way. Parking is where the month gets expensive: SER zona azul caps you at four hours, SER zona verde at two, and both run 09:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–15:00 on Saturday. A 0 emisiones sticker takes 75% off resident season tickets — worth knowing if you take one of our four Electric cars at €30 a day.

Charging, fuel and the long-stay rhythm

Electric is the quiet win on a monthly booking: public charging across Spain runs at €0.20 per kWh, and Renault Zoe at €34 a day or Peugeot e-208 at €35 covers the same ground as the petrol cars for less per kilometre. Petrol sits at €1.971 a litre on average for Gasolina 95 E5 — a median of €2.009 across a sample of 231 filling stations. Fill up before you hand the car back rather than on the morning of return; the fuel policy is agreed when you book. And here is the one most people miss — a long booking that overlaps a busy stretch of the calendar is worth locking in early, and the terms of any extension are set out in the rental agreement.

Where a monthly car rental in Madrid stops being worth it

For the last week, two or three day trips from the list above are cheaper on a weekly rate from €84 — the daily rate × 6 — than on a fresh monthly term. Keep the monthly contract for the weeks you are genuinely driving, and settle the extension with your manager before the return date rather than on it.

Fuel, parking and charging on a monthly car rental in Madrid

Over a month you will refuel, park and — if you pick one of our electric cars — charge, so these three costs belong in your budget from the start. The city sets the rules for each of them.

Refuelling a monthly car rental in Madrid

Petrol averages €1.971 a litre for Gasolina 95 E5, with a median of €2.009 and a spread of €1.789 to €2.086 across 231 stations sampled. Our Economy and Comfort cars run on petrol — the Smart Fortwo, Peugeot 108 and Kia Picanto sip it, while the 1.2 L Citroen C3 and Opel Corsa burn more on the same trip. The Fiat Pandina is our only hybrid in the Economy class, and it is the one Economy car that cuts urban consumption without a charging cable. The fuel policy is full-to-full (lleno-lleno): the car leaves with a full tank and comes back full, and the level is recorded in the rental agreement. Filling up away from the M-30 ring and the A-1 to A-6 radial motorways usually saves a few cents a litre: the stations on the city's edge sit at the bottom of the range.

Parking rules for a monthly car rental in Madrid

• SER zona azul (blue): paid street parking with a maximum stay of 4 hours in the regulated zone.
• SER zona verde (green): resident-priority zone, maximum stay 2 hours, and the pricier of the two.
• Hours: 09:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–15:00 on Saturdays; outside those windows street parking is generally free.
• Residents' permits: a 0 emisiones or ECO DGT sticker cuts the resident subscription by 75%.
• Parquímetro: you pay at the machine and keep the ticket — the plate number on it must match the car.
• M-30, M-40, M-45, M-50 and the A-1 to A-6 radials: free to drive; only the R-2, R-3 and R-4 radial toll roads charge.

Charging an electric monthly car rental in Madrid

Public charging in Spain runs at around €0.20 per kWh — Acciona and the other networks sit in that band — which is roughly a tenth of the per-kilometre cost of petrol. We keep 4 electric cars on this page: the Citroen e-C3 at €30 a day, the Fiat 500e at €32, the Renault Zoe at €34 and the Peugeot e-208 at €35, all automatic and all with the 0 emisiones DGT sticker that opens every street in the ZBE Madrid. A 5-seat Zoe or e-208 takes a family and a weekly shop without a second thought. On a month-long booking, charge at home or at a hotel overnight where you can — daytime public charging in the centre is the slowest and dearest way to keep an EV moving.

Documents, insurance and rules for a monthly car rental in Madrid

A monthly car rental in Madrid rests on three documents: the licence, the identity document and the card used for the deposit. Everything else — the deposit itself, the excess, delivery fees and any discount — is set out in the rental agreement, and we go through it with you when the booking is agreed.

Licences: what Spain accepts

An EU/EEA licence is valid in Spain as it is while it has not expired, and no international permit is needed alongside it. A third-country licence is valid for driving as a tourist; for residents it holds for no more than six months from the date they take up ordinary residence in Spain, after which the licence must be exchanged through canje. The DGT advises getting an international driving permit before the trip. A Permiso Internacional de Conducción is never valid on its own — it is shown only together with the national licence, and it runs for one year. Where the licence is not in Latin script, it is accepted only if it is written in Spanish, carries an official translation, or was issued to the model of Annex 9 of the Geneva Convention or Annex 6 of the Vienna Convention; in practice that means an IDP or a sworn translation.

Insurance on a monthly car rental in Madrid

Seguro Obligatorio de Responsabilidad Civil is part of every rental by Spanish law and applies always, even if the driver at the wheel was not named in the agreement. Its limits are 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, with the sums in force since 26.07.2025. It covers harm to third parties, not the driver and not the car. Damage to the vehicle is handled by CDW, which removes the renter's liability for bodywork damage except for the excess. The excess is printed in the rental agreement whatever protection level is chosen, so read that line before signing.

Rules that apply while you hold the car

• Speed: 120 km/h on autopista and autovía, 90 km/h on a conventional road, 30 km/h on a city street with one lane each way.
• Alcohol: 0.25 mg/l of breath for all drivers, 0.15 mg/l for those in their first two years and for professionals.
• Phone: 200 EUR, and six points if the phone is held in the hand.
• Seat belts and child seats: 200 EUR and four points; SRI seats are required for anyone 135 cm or shorter.
• Fines: leve up to 100 EUR without points, grave 200 EUR, muy grave 500 EUR; a 50% discount applies if paid within 20 days.
• Parking and tolls: the owner or the renter answers for parking and unpaid tolls; for moving offences, alcohol and drugs, the person who was driving does.

The condition that catches people out is the licence itself: a third-country permit that has never been paired with an IDP is the single most common reason a hand-over stalls, so sort it before the booking is agreed.

Monthly car rental in Madrid and what to settle before booking

• Length of term: confirm the exact start and return dates, because the monthly rate is built as the daily rate × 21 and a term that slips below that changes the price.
• Hand-over point: the car is delivered to you, and where it is handed over is agreed when booking — not chosen on the day.
• Payment and deposit: the card used, the preautorización and the depósito de seguridad are settled with the manager before the agreement is drawn up.
• Insurance level: decide whether you take the base CDW with its franquicia or pay to reduce the excess — the franquicia is printed in the contract either way.
• Additional drivers: anyone who will drive must be named in the agreement, so list them at booking rather than adding them later.
• ZBE Madrid and the DGT sticker: tell us at booking if the car must enter the city centre, so the etiqueta ambiental on the car matches your route.
• Fuel and return: the política de combustible is fixed in the agreement, so agree the level before the car arrives.
• Mileage: the kilometraje permitido or kilometraje ilimitado for your term is confirmed with the manager, not assumed.

Two documents cause most of the delay, and both are avoidable. An EU or EEA permiso de conducir is valid in Spain as it stands, no IDP needed. A third-country licence is valid for tourists, and for residents for up to six months after taking up residence; where the licence is not in Latin script — Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese characters — the DGT position is that it needs a Spanish translation or a Permiso Internacional de Conducción, which is only ever shown together with the national licence. The original ID document in the main driver's name is a rental requirement rather than a DGT rule, and the minimum rental age and any young-driver surcharge are agreed when booking. Driving in Spain starts at 18 for category B, but rental practice commonly begins higher, so raise it early rather than at hand-over.

Who pays a fine depends on the offence. Parking tickets and unpaid tolls fall on the owner or the renter of the car; moving violations, alcohol and drugs fall on whoever was driving. If the offence was not handed over at the roadside, the authorities address the owner or renter until the driver is established — and that includes vehículos de alquiler and de renting alike. Keep the multa, if one arrives, and pass it to us with the date and place: the 50% pronto pago discount applies within 20 calendar days, so the date on the notice matters.

What we cannot put in writing here is the number. The deposit, the franquicia, the delivery fee and any discount are set out in the rental agreement, and they depend on the class you pick and the term you take. Ask for them in figures before you confirm — that is the whole point of agreeing the booking with a manager rather than clicking through a checkout page. On a 30-day term, a €14 Economy car and a €41 Comfort car carry the same daily logic but not the same exposure, and the gap between them is worth knowing before you sign.