Sedan car rental in Spain

Sedan car rental in Spain from Rent-Trip puts 16 sedans on the road, from €38 to €84 per day, with weekly bookings from €228 and monthly from €798. We deliver the car to any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we cover, and to the airports serving them, with the delivery address, date and time agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

What sedan car rental in Spain gives you that a compact or SUV does

What counts as a sedan and why the body shape matters on Spanish roads

Skoda Octavia is a liftback sedan with a 1.5 L, 150 hp petrol engine at €42 a day, and Peugeot 408 is a fastback sedan at €45.

Sedan against compact and SUV for a trip across the country

Every sedan on this page has 5 seats, from the €38 Fiat Tipo to the €84 Audi A4, so the class does not change the headcount you can carry.

Where a sedan stops being the right car

The delivery address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — worth settling early if your route crosses more than one of those cities.

Sedan car rental in Spain prices and how the weekly and monthly rate works

A sedan costs between €38 and €84 a day here, and the longer booking is worked out on a fixed multiplier rather than a haggled discount: a week is six daily rates, a month is twenty-one.

Daily, weekly and monthly rates for a sedan

Booking a sedan with Rent-Trip starts at €38 per day and runs to €84, with a week from €228 and a month from €798. Those figures are not a separate tariff table — they are the daily rate multiplied out, so a Fiat Tipo at €38 a day becomes €228 for the week and €798 for the month, while a Mercedes-Benz C-Class at €61 comes to €366 and €1,281 on the same multipliers. Check which multiplier a quote is built on before you compare two offers — daily × 6 and daily × 21 are the only two we use, and a quote built on any other figure is not the same product.

Prices by model

The cheapest and the dearest car on this page differ by more than twice, and the gap is not only about the badge — automatic gearboxes and larger diesel engines sit at the top of the band. Pick the model first and the dates second: moving from a manual Tipo to an automatic Passat changes the weekly figure by €132, which is usually worth more than shifting the trip by a few days. Long bookings are agreed with a manager when the booking is fixed, and the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee are set out in the rental agreement.

Choose from 16 sedan car rental in Spain models by fuel type

Petrol, diesel, hybrid and mild hybrid sedans in the fleet

Six take petrol: the Fiat Tipo (1.0 L) and Kia Cerato (1.6 L), both manual with 5 seats, the Skoda Octavia 1.5 L at 150 hp, the Peugeot 408 1.2 L automatic, the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe 1.5 L at 156 hp and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2.0 L at 204 hp, listed as petrol or diesel — confirm which when you book.

Which sedans drive the front wheels and which send power to the rear

• Front-wheel drive: the Fiat Tipo, Kia Cerato, Skoda Octavia, Peugeot 408, BYD Seal 6, Volkswagen Passat, BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe, Audi A4 and Opel Insignia — the majority of the fleet.
• Rear-wheel drive: the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, BMW 5 Series and BMW 3 Series, which also comes in an all-wheel-drive version.
• Hybrid (DM-i): the BYD Seal 6 at 212 hp, the most powerful sedan on this page, at €55 a day.

The 16 cars carry three body labels — sedan, liftback and fastback — so if the boot shape matters more to you than the badge, say so when you book: the model, the delivery address and the date are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Space, seats and luggage in a sedan car rental in Spain

We hand the car over clean and with a full tank, so the boot is empty when you load it, not half-filled with someone else's kit.

How the boot and cabin split across the class

• Volkswagen Passat and Opel Insignia: 2.0 L diesel sedans in the middle of the band.
• Mercedes-Benz C-Class and BMW 3 Series: rear-wheel-drive sedans in the upper half of the band.
• BYD Seal 6: the hybrid (DM-i) option at €55 a day.

What to check before you load the car

• Child seats: required for passengers 135 cm and under, and the driver is responsible for the restraint, not the passenger.
• Fuel: the car leaves with a full tank and comes back full — lleno-lleno — or the missing fuel and a refuelling fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• Delivery: we bring the car to your address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or the Costa Brava, and the address, date and time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed.

Where your sedan car rental in Spain is delivered and how booking works

We deliver each sedan to the address you give us — a hotel, an apartment, a private house — and the delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed. Delivery outside the four areas below is arranged case by case and is not promised on the site, so ask the manager first if your stay sits further out.

Where we deliver a sedan

• Madrid and Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD): any address in the city, plus the airport terminal, arranged with the manager.
• Barcelona and Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN): any address in the city, plus the airport terminal.
• Valencia and Valencia Airport (VLC): any address in the city, plus the airport terminal.
• Costa Brava, Girona-Costa Brava (GRO) and Barcelona-El Prat (BCN): any address in the Costa Brava towns we have a page for.
• Anywhere else in the country: arranged case by case — tell the manager your address and we confirm whether we can reach it.

How the booking is put together

You pick the car and the dates, we confirm the delivery point and the time, and only then is the booking fixed. If the model you chose is not the one standing outside on the day, Spanish consumer rules let you ask for another car of the same class or higher at no extra cost — and if you are given a lower class, the price has to come down.

The car arrives clean and with a full tank, and it goes back with a full tank — the lleno-lleno policy used across the country. Anything else about the tank is charged as the missing fuel plus a refuelling service fee, exactly as set out in the rental agreement.

Give the manager your arrival time and your address in the same message, and the two get matched in one go.

Renting a sedan in Spain with documents fuel and city rules

What you may drive on depends on where your licence was issued, and the rules change once you take up residence. The fuel rule on this page is simpler: the car leaves with a full tank and comes back full.

Documents for a rented sedan

A licence from the EU or EEA is valid as it stands until it expires, and no international permit is needed alongside it. A licence from a third country is valid if it is in force, if you are old enough for the equivalent category, and for six months from the date you take up ordinary residence here — after that it must be exchanged. If your licence is not in Spanish, it works either with an official certified translation or if it was issued on the Appendix 9 or Appendix 6 model. The Permiso Internacional de Conducción is a supplementary document: it is shown only together with your passport and your national licence, and it runs for one year. Carry the original identity document in the main driver's name — the minimum age and any young-driver surcharge are agreed when booking, not fixed by law.

Fuel: full to full on a rented sedan

• Full-to-full (lleno-lleno): the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank.
• Return short of full: the missing fuel and a refuelling service fee are charged as set out in the rental agreement.
• No other option: a pre-paid tank or full-to-empty is not offered on this page.
• Filling up: pumps are marked gasolina 95 or gasóleo A, and the car documents say which one the sedan takes.
• Before the last leg: refuel close to the return address.

Speed limits and city rules for a rented sedan

On autopistas and autovías the limit for a passenger car is 120 km/h, and on an ordinary interurban road (carretera convencional) it is 90 km/h, which the road owner may raise to 100 km/h. Inside towns the limits drop sharply: 20 km/h on a single-platform street where carriageway and pavement are level, 30 km/h where there is one lane in each direction, and 50 km/h where there are two or more lanes each way — bus and taxi lanes do not count towards that total. On the Rondes in Barcelona, an autopista inside the city, the general ceiling is 80 km/h unless a sign says otherwise. Low-emission zones are marked by the distintivo ambiental on the windscreen, and a rental sedan carries the sticker it was registered with — check it before you plan a route through a city centre.

Insurance and hand-over in sedan car rental in Spain

Spanish law puts compulsory third-party cover on every car that legally uses the road, and it is included in a Rent-Trip booking by default. Under Real Decreto Legislativo 8/2004, article 4.2 as amended by Ley 5/2025, the limits are €70,000,000 per incident for personal injury and €15,000,000 for property damage, and these figures apply from 26 July 2025. The cover follows the vehicle, not the driver: it protects third parties even if the person at the wheel was not named in the agreement. What it does not cover is the car itself or the driver — that is what the optional waivers below are for.

What the optional protection actually removes

• CDW (Collision Damage Waiver): reduces your liability for damage to the car in a collision with another vehicle or an object, except for the excess.
• THW (Theft Protection): covers total or partial theft and vandalism damage, again minus the excess.

The hand-over and how to protect yourself

Spanish consumer rules require every scratch and dent to be written into the agreement or the inspection sheet before you drive away, with both sides signing and a copy staying with you — otherwise the damage is charged to you. A walk-around with a phone camera, especially of the rear bumper and alloy rims, is worth doing. The car leaves with a full tank and comes back full: full-to-full, or lleno-lleno. If the model you booked is unavailable, you are entitled to another car at no extra cost, even a class above; if you are given a lower class, the price must come down.

Before you book sedan car rental in Spain check these points

You are choosing between 16 sedans that differ by more than twice in daily rate, so the order of decisions matters: model first, dates second, delivery point third. Everything below is what we ask a client to confirm before the booking is fixed.

Confirm the body and the gearbox you actually want

• Body type: the fleet mixes sedans, liftbacks and fastbacks — Skoda Octavia and Peugeot 408 are not three-box cars, so if a separate boot is the point, say so.
• Gearbox: the Fiat Tipo, Kia Cerato and Skoda Octavia are manual; everything from the Peugeot 408 upward is automatic, and the price step between them is real.
• Drive: most cars are front-wheel, while the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, BMW 3 Series and BMW 5 Series are rear-wheel, with all-wheel drive available on the 3 Series.
• Fuel: diesel, petrol, hybrid (DM-i) and mild hybrid all appear in the list — the pump you pull into on a long transfer depends on which one you pick.

Agree the delivery address, date and time with a manager

Rent-Trip delivers to any address in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Costa Brava towns we have a page for, and to the airports serving them. The delivery address, the date and the time are agreed with a manager before the booking is fixed — that conversation is also where the minimum age and the young-driver surcharge for your case are settled, because we do not print a single figure for them. The same applies to the deposit, the excess and any delivery fee: all of it is set out in the rental agreement, not in a headline price. Ask about the fuel rule at the same time — the car is supplied with a full tank and must be returned with a full tank, lleno-lleno, and no other fuel option is offered.

Match the model to the route before you commit

A 1.0 L Fiat Tipo at €38 a day and a 2.0 L Audi A4 at €84 are the same five seats and the same class name, but not the same journey.