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Short-term rentals: Valencian Community

Tourist dwellings in the region’s official register, by province and municipality, related to population and compared with nights booked on platforms (Eurostat). Every figure states its source and date.

Data last updated: 10 October 2026

registered tourist dwellings

90,122

in 251 published municipalities

tourist dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants

16.6

nights booked via platforms in 2025 · Valencian Community

28,048,903

+10% vs 2024

Inside Airbnb listings (covered cities)

7,968

latest snapshot: 20 September 2026

Map

Municipalities on the map

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

Tourist dwellings only

Generalitat Valenciana: open list of viviendas turísticas (tourist dwellings) only; hotels and campsites are not included. Register read on 9 October 2026

Provinces

By province

Registered dwellings and nights booked via platforms (Eurostat, NUTS 3 level = province).
ProvinceTourist dwellingsPlatform nights 2025
Alicante / Alacant59,56417,303,621
Valencia / València17,2338,128,113
Castellón / Castelló13,3252,617,169

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 1Torrevieja10,225Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 103.8 per 1,000 inh.
  2. Rank 2València5,770Tourist dwellingsValencia / València · 6.9 per 1,000 inh. · 7,968 Airbnb
  3. Rank 3Benidorm5,639Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 72.9 per 1,000 inh.
  4. Rank 4Calp5,557Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 201.2 per 1,000 inh.
  5. Rank 5Dénia5,200Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 110 per 1,000 inh.
  6. Rank 6Orihuela4,611Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 54.5 per 1,000 inh.
  7. Rank 7Jávea / Xàbia4,302Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 140.4 per 1,000 inh.
  8. Rank 8Oropesa del Mar / Orpesa3,192Tourist dwellingsCastellón / Castelló · 252.5 per 1,000 inh.
  9. Rank 9Alicante / Alacant3,096Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 8.5 per 1,000 inh.
  10. Rank 10Santa Pola3,053Tourist dwellingsAlicante / Alacant · 76.9 per 1,000 inh.
  11. Rank 11Peníscola / Peñíscola3,023Tourist dwellingsCastellón / Castelló · 344.5 per 1,000 inh.
  12. Rank 12Gandia2,963Tourist dwellingsValencia / València · 35.6 per 1,000 inh.

12 of 251 municipalities

Index of municipality pages · 118 municipality pages, by province.

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.

Valencian Community: platform nights per year

Eurostat tour_ce_oan3, residents and non-residents.
Show the data
YearNights
201814,069,028
201915,830,794
20206,672,717
202110,617,527
202217,216,154
202320,590,760
202425,500,282
202528,048,903

Cities

Platform nights by city (Eurostat tour_ce_oarc).

  1. 1València5,712,674nights 2025 · greater city−0.8%
  2. 2Alicante / Alacant2,764,846nights 2025 · greater city+13.9%
  3. 3Benidorm2,561,842nights 2025+7.1%
  4. 4Torrevieja1,840,257nights 2025+10%
  5. 5Elche / Elx407,912nights 2025+20.2%
Valencian Community · 2025 · Show the data
MonthShare
January3.4%
February4.4%
March4.7%
April7.3%
May7.3%
June10.6%
July17.2%
August19.6%
September9.2%
October7%
November4.2%
December5.2%

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
València7,96864.2%

Source: Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com), CC BY 4.0 licence, snapshot of 20 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.
TypesValencian Community
Tourist dwellings (HUT, VUT, VT)STR90,122100%

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

  • Generalitat Valenciana — list of viviendas turísticas (dadesobertes.gva.es), CC BY 4.0.

    dadesobertes.gva.es CC BY 4.0

  • Eurostat — tour_ce_oan3, tour_ce_omn12, tour_ce_oarc, tour_occ_nin3 (CC BY 4.0).

    ec.europa.eu CC BY 4.0

  • Inside Airbnb — insideairbnb.com, CC BY 4.0, attribution required.

    insideairbnb.com CC BY 4.0

  • INE — Padrón municipal (official population figures).

    ine.es INE

  • GISCO (Eurostat) — LAU 2024 and NUTS, © EuroGeographics for administrative boundaries.

    ec.europa.eu © EuroGeographics

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How many tourist dwellings in Valencian Community?

Valencian Community has 90,122 tourist dwellings in its official register, i.e. 16.6 per 1,000 inhabitants; 251 municipalities have a published page.

Which municipality has the most short-term rentals?

Torrevieja ranks first with 10,225 registered tourist dwellings, i.e. 103.8 per 1,000 inhabitants.

How many nights are booked via platforms?

Valencian Community: 28,048,903 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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