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Short-term rental observatory: Spain

Catalonia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community: tourist dwellings registered in each region’s official tourism register, counted by municipality, related to population and compared with nights booked on platforms (Eurostat) and Inside Airbnb listings.

Data last updated: 10 October 2026

registered tourist dwellings

349,548

in 1,556 published municipalities

tourist dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants

15.7

nights booked via platforms in 2025 · Spain

189,492,971

+11.1% vs 2024

Inside Airbnb listings (covered cities)

61,554

latest snapshot: 28 September 2026

Map

Municipalities on the map

1,556 published municipalities (at least 5 registered establishments). Tap a municipality to open its page.

Regions

Three regional registers, three scopes

Each region keeps its own tourism register: what it covers differs, so the scope is shown for each one.

Catalonia

Complete register, all accommodation

Registre de Turisme de Catalunya: every registered establishment (habitatges d’ús turístic, hotels, campsites, rural tourism…), including those owned by private individuals.

Registered accommodation (all types)
112,696
Tourist dwellings
105,959
Per 1,000 inhabitants
13
Share held by a company
22.2%
Platform nights 2025+6% / 2024
27,181,807

Register read on 5 October 2026

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Andalusia

Complete register, all accommodation

Registro de Turismo de Andalucía (OpenRTA): all registrations, including private owners’ viviendas de uso turístico.

Registered accommodation (all types)
176,005
Tourist dwellings
153,467
Per 1,000 inhabitants
17.7
Share held by a company
18%
Platform nights 2025+14.1% / 2024
50,291,277

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Valencian Community

Tourist dwellings only

Generalitat Valenciana: open list of viviendas turísticas (tourist dwellings) only; hotels and campsites are not included.

Tourist dwellings
90,122
Per 1,000 inhabitants
16.6
Platform nights 2025+10% / 2024
28,048,903

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Provinces

By province

Registered dwellings and nights booked via platforms (Eurostat, NUTS 3 level = province).
ProvinceTourist dwellingsPlatform nights 2025
Málaga88,96226,226,135
Alicante / Alacant59,56417,303,621
Girona45,6466,421,230
Tarragona30,8684,423,235
Barcelona24,78815,478,875
Cádiz21,9745,869,186
Valencia / València17,2338,128,113
Castellón / Castelló13,3252,617,169
Almería13,1392,522,552
Sevilla11,3727,305,588
Granada9,6074,724,081
Lleida4,657858,467
Huelva3,8911,148,826
Córdoba3,5581,792,521
Jaén964702,388

Platform share: platform nights / (platform nights + nights in collective accommodation, Eurostat tour_occ_nin3), same year. The two series partly overlap (hotels sold online): an order of magnitude only. Source: Eurostat, tour_ce_oan3, tour_ce_omn12 and tour_ce_oarc (CC BY 4.0), experimental statistics.

Municipalities

All published municipalities

Ranked by number of registered tourist dwellings. Search by municipality or province.

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  1. Rank 1Marbella15,772Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 98.7 per 1,000 inh.
  2. Rank 2Málaga12,616Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 21.1 per 1,000 inh. · 9,505 Airbnb
  3. Rank 3Barcelona10,652Tourist dwellingsBarcelona · 6.2 per 1,000 inh. · 15,236 Airbnb
  4. Rank 4Mijas10,560Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 111 per 1,000 inh.
  5. Rank 5Torrevieja10,225Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 103.8 per 1,000 inh.
  6. Rank 6Sevilla9,546Tourist dwellingsSevilla · 13.8 per 1,000 inh. · 8,375 Airbnb
  7. Rank 7Benalmádena8,665Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 110.6 per 1,000 inh.
  8. Rank 8Estepona8,216Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 103.2 per 1,000 inh.
  9. Rank 9Salou7,126Tourist dwellingsTarragona · 226.3 per 1,000 inh.
  10. Rank 10Fuengirola6,345Tourist dwellingsMálaga · 74.5 per 1,000 inh.
  11. Rank 11València5,770Tourist dwellingsValencia / València · 6.9 per 1,000 inh. · 7,968 Airbnb
  12. Rank 12Benidorm5,639Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 72.9 per 1,000 inh.

12 of 1,556 municipalities

Index of municipality pages · 472 municipality pages, by province.

Girona

Platforms

Nights booked via platforms

Eurostat publishes nights booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia and Tripadvisor (experimental statistics, data shared by the platforms): all short-stay accommodation sold online, not only private homes.

Spain: platform nights per year

Eurostat tour_ce_oan3, residents and non-residents.
Show the data
YearNights
201894,388,752
2019105,601,983
202044,206,909
202169,272,291
2022117,954,021
2023141,056,225
2024170,585,187
2025189,492,971

Cities

Platform nights by city (Eurostat tour_ce_oarc).

  1. 1Barcelona13,179,021nights 2025 · greater city+5.6%
  2. 2Málaga7,457,508nights 2025+13.3%
  3. 3Sevilla6,749,029nights 2025+8.8%
  4. 4València5,712,674nights 2025 · greater city−0.8%
  5. 5Marbella3,430,974nights 2025+11.9%
  6. 6Granada3,073,847nights 2025 · greater city+11%
  7. 7Alicante / Alacant2,764,846nights 2025 · greater city+13.9%
  8. 8Benidorm2,561,842nights 2025+7.1%
  9. 9Benalmádena2,222,233nights 2025+9.9%
  10. 10Torrevieja1,840,257nights 2025+10%
  11. 11Fuengirola1,758,168nights 2025+18.2%
  12. 12Torremolinos1,677,212nights 2025 · greater city+11.7%
  13. 13Córdoba1,505,514nights 2025+11.3%
  14. 14Cádiz922,395nights 2025−2%
  15. 15Chiclana de la Frontera561,825nights 2025+10.8%
  16. 16El Puerto de Santa María523,923nights 2025+10.5%
  17. 17Jerez de la Frontera506,265nights 2025+5.4%
  18. 18Elche / Elx407,912nights 2025+20.2%
Spain · 2025 · Show the data
MonthShare
January4.9%
February5.5%
March5.8%
April8.2%
May7.8%
June9.4%
July14%
August15.9%
September8.9%
October7.9%
November5.4%
December6.5%

Source: Eurostat, tour_ce_oan3, tour_ce_omn12 and tour_ce_oarc (CC BY 4.0), experimental statistics.

Inside Airbnb

Airbnb listings in the covered cities

Inside Airbnb records Airbnb’s public listings every quarter. These are listings, not declared dwellings: a third-party estimate, useful for comparison.
AreaListingsNumber shown
Girona (província)20,47086.9%
Barcelona15,23664.1%
Málaga9,50576.6%
Sevilla8,37575.6%
València7,96864.2%

Source: Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com), CC BY 4.0 licence, snapshot of 28 September 2026. Third-party collection: active or inactive listings, Airbnb only. “Number shown”: share of listings whose licence field contains a number (self-declared, unverified; “exempt” and “pending” excluded).

Types

Registered accommodation by type

Breakdown by official register type. Tourist dwellings (STR badge) are the short-term rental segment.
TypesSpain
Tourist dwellings (HUT, VUT, VT)STR348,09191.9%
Rooms in the host’s home (llars compartides)STR1,4570.4%
Rural tourism20,0665.3%
Tourist apartments (establishments)1,7850.5%
Hotels6,9811.8%
Campsites4430.1%

Valencian Community: only the list of tourist dwellings is published.

Rules

What the texts say

Only facts checked against official texts are shown here, with their link.

What the texts say

In Catalonia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community, a tourist dwelling must be entered in the region’s tourism register: the figures on this page come from those registers.

Open data

Download the data

CSV of published municipalities1,556 municipalities, one row each, open licence.
JSON APIGET https://api.majordia.fr/api/public/lcd-observatory/espagneThe same aggregates as JSON, cached for 24 h.

Free reuse with credit to “Majordia, short-term rental observatory” and the original sources (attribution required for Eurostat and Inside Airbnb, CC BY 4.0).

Method

Method, sources and privacy

How the figures are computed

The regional registers are read in full at each (monthly) update and counted municipality by municipality: only these counts are kept, never an individual record.

“Tourist dwelling” = habitatge d’ús turístic (Catalonia), vivienda de uso turístico (Andalusia), vivienda turística (Valencian Community), plus rooms in the host’s home in Catalonia; in Lombardy: holiday homes and apartments, tourist rentals, B&Bs.

Density = tourist dwellings / population × 1,000 (INE, Padrón municipal; ISTAT for Italy). Eurostat nights cover all accommodation sold via platforms, hotels included.

A municipality page is published from 5 registered establishments; it is offered to search engines only with at least 20 tourist dwellings and a second municipality-level indicator (bed places, company share, registration years or at least 30 Inside Airbnb listings).

Privacy (GDPR)

  • Aggregates only: no names, addresses, owners or per-host data.
  • A municipality is published only from 5 registered establishments (or when its official flows are published).
  • Any sub-total from 1 to 5 − 1 (type, year, owners) is hidden; a share is computed only when each group has at least 5 establishments.
  • The sources’ statistical confidentiality (ISTAT “dato riservato”) is preserved.

Sources

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How many tourist dwellings are there in Spain?

The official registers of Catalonia, Andalusia and Valencian Community list 349,548 registered tourist dwellings; 1,556 municipalities have at least 5 registered establishments and a published page. Other Spanish regions are not covered yet.

Which municipality has the most short-term rentals?

Marbella ranks first with 15,772 registered tourist dwellings, i.e. 98.7 per 1,000 inhabitants.

How many nights are booked via platforms?

Spain: 189,492,971 nights booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia and Tripadvisor in 2025 (Eurostat, all short-stay accommodation).

Where do these figures come from?

From the tourism registers of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Junta de Andalucía and the Generalitat Valenciana (open data), Eurostat and Inside Airbnb. Every figure on the page states its source and date.

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