Provinces of Spain by hotel guests

Name: Provinces of Spain by hotel guests, February 2026
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
License: INE reuse terms (attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest hotel guests of 50 provinces in February 2026, at 986,628. Palencia province had the lowest, at 10,342. The median was 55,299 and the figure for Spain was 6.59 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest986,628Madrid province

Lowest10,342Palencia province

Median55,29950 provinces

Spain6,594,807History

All provinces, February 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

count. Source: INE. Retrieved 2026-10-07.

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	February 2026 count	Change on February 2025
1	Madrid province Provisional	986,628	+5.4%
2	Barcelona province Provisional	943,498	+8.9%
3	Las Palmas province Provisional	543,317	+0.4%
4	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province Provisional	391,350	+3.3%
5	Málaga province Provisional	343,155	-2.3%
6	Alicante province Provisional	315,413	+7.5%
7	Seville province Provisional	287,617	+6.4%
8	Valencia province Provisional	233,200	-5.7%
9	Granada province Provisional	203,581	-6.8%
10	Girona province Provisional	165,214	+1%
11	Balearic Islands province Provisional	160,241	-5.4%
12	Cádiz province Provisional	137,581	+7.7%
13	Zaragoza province Provisional	103,759	+0.5%
14	Biscay province Provisional	101,140	-0.3%
15	Murcia province Provisional	100,829	-1.8%
16	A Coruña province Provisional	92,587	-11.8%
17	Gipuzkoa province Provisional	92,300	-9.8%
18	Lleida province Provisional	91,584	-8.9%
19	Asturias province Provisional	87,964	+0.6%
20	Huesca province Provisional	76,154	-11.5%
21	Córdoba province Provisional	71,950	-11.6%
22	Castellón province Provisional	61,811	+7.6%
23	Tarragona province Provisional	59,077	+8.4%
24	Almería province Provisional	58,574	-8.2%
25	Salamanca province Provisional	57,320	-0.9%
26	Cantabria province Provisional	53,277	-0.3%
27	Navarre province Provisional	52,740	-7%
28	Toledo province Provisional	52,334	+1.9%
29	Pontevedra province Provisional	50,403	-12.6%
30	Valladolid province Provisional	49,302	+4.6%
31	Burgos province Provisional	46,663	-9.2%
32	Badajoz province Provisional	45,725	-4.8%
33	León province Provisional	42,430	-8.3%
34	Cáceres province Provisional	36,188	-14.4%
35	Jaén province Provisional	35,473	-9.3%
36	La Rioja province Provisional	35,290	+3.6%
37	Huelva province Provisional	33,951	-10%
38	Álava province Provisional	29,762	+1.5%
39	Segovia province Provisional	29,740	-12.4%
40	Teruel province Provisional	29,296	+0.6%
41	Ciudad Real province Provisional	26,975	-10.1%
42	Albacete province Provisional	26,642	-4.4%
43	Lugo province Provisional	26,262	+0.4%
44	Ávila province Provisional	24,616	-1.2%
45	Ourense province Provisional	21,359	+6%
46	Guadalajara province Provisional	19,812	+10.2%
47	Cuenca province Provisional	17,512	-26.6%
48	Soria province Provisional	13,452	-9.1%
49	Zamora province Provisional	12,149	+12.9%
50	Palencia province Provisional	10,342	-7.4%

Other periods

About this ranking

Guests checked into hotel establishments during the month.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the provinces are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). Encuesta de ocupación hotelera: viajeros (tabla 2074). https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=2074. Retrieved 2026-10-07.

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Questions

Which province has the highest hotel guests?

Madrid province, with 986,628 in February 2026, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest hotel guests?

Palencia province, with 10,342 in February 2026.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Encuesta de ocupación hotelera: viajeros (tabla 2074). Retrieved 2026-10-07.