Provinces of Spain by hotel guests

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

Madrid province had the highest hotel guests of 50 provinces in March 2026, at 1.1 million. Palencia province had the lowest, at 13,197. The median was 79,497 and the figure for Spain was 8.27 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest1,098,265Madrid province

Lowest13,197Palencia province

Median79,49750 provinces

Spain8,270,160History

All provinces, March 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	March 2026 count	Change on March 2025
1	Madrid province Provisional	1,098,265	+3.2%
2	Barcelona province Provisional	1,080,012	+7.9%
3	Las Palmas province Provisional	579,238	+0.6%
4	Málaga province Provisional	496,696	+11.8%
5	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province Provisional	418,974	+6.9%
6	Alicante province Provisional	367,105	+0.1%
7	Balearic Islands province Provisional	364,483	+13.3%
8	Seville province Provisional	339,217	+10.2%
9	Valencia province Provisional	325,642	+11.3%
10	Girona province Provisional	261,448	+18.7%
11	Granada province Provisional	250,623	+7.8%
12	Cádiz province Provisional	173,656	+11.4%
13	Tarragona province Provisional	139,976	+75.9%
14	Biscay province Provisional	129,854	+5.1%
15	Zaragoza province Provisional	124,804	+0.6%
16	A Coruña province Provisional	120,136	-8.6%
17	Gipuzkoa province Provisional	119,511	+0.8%
18	Asturias province Provisional	113,361	+2.3%
19	Murcia province Provisional	109,156	-2.2%
20	Córdoba province Provisional	102,785	+2.8%
21	Castellón province Provisional	87,973	+10.3%
22	Pontevedra province Provisional	86,456	+3.1%
23	Almería province Provisional	85,105	+22%
24	Huesca province Provisional	82,652	+17.4%
25	Lleida province Provisional	81,923	-5.6%
26	Salamanca province Provisional	77,071	+10.4%
27	Navarre province Provisional	75,549	-1.6%
28	Cantabria province Provisional	72,693	+1.4%
29	Toledo province Provisional	72,206	+11.5%
30	Burgos province Provisional	62,639	+0.1%
31	Badajoz province Provisional	60,548	+6.8%
32	Huelva province Provisional	60,439	+36.1%
33	León province Provisional	59,210	-3.5%
34	Valladolid province Provisional	54,673	+4.2%
35	Cáceres province Provisional	53,928	+11.3%
36	Jaén province Provisional	52,092	+21.1%
37	Lugo province Provisional	43,736	+18.3%
38	La Rioja province Provisional	42,880	+2.2%
39	Segovia province Provisional	40,675	+5.8%
40	Ciudad Real province Provisional	38,292	+18.8%
41	Álava province Provisional	35,061	-5.8%
42	Teruel province Provisional	34,708	+10.7%
43	Albacete province Provisional	31,347	+0.2%
44	Ávila province Provisional	28,185	+15%
45	Guadalajara province Provisional	26,965	+40.2%
46	Ourense province Provisional	26,077	+5.2%
47	Cuenca province Provisional	22,943	+14.7%
48	Soria province Provisional	19,352	+10.3%
49	Zamora province Provisional	16,332	+17.9%
50	Palencia province Provisional	13,197	-0%

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 1.1 million in March 2026, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest hotel guests?

Palencia province, with 13,197 in March 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.