Provinces of Spain by hotel guests

Name: Provinces of Spain by hotel guests, April 2026
Creator: Instituto Nacional de Estadística
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Barcelona province had the highest hotel guests of 50 provinces in April 2026, at 1.18 million. Palencia province had the lowest, at 18,010. The median was 107,702 and the figure for Spain was 10.21 million. Source: the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Highest1,184,448Barcelona province

Lowest18,010Palencia province

Median107,70250 provinces

Spain10,211,051History

All provinces, April 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	April 2026 count	Change on April 2025
1	Barcelona province Provisional	1,184,448	+1.5%
2	Madrid province Provisional	1,159,705	+1.1%
3	Balearic Islands province Provisional	848,250	+7.1%
4	Málaga province Provisional	616,858	+2.6%
5	Las Palmas province Provisional	523,993	-5.1%
6	Alicante province Provisional	461,117	+3.5%
7	Girona province Provisional	408,115	+2.8%
8	Seville province Provisional	370,103	+6.6%
9	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province Provisional	365,777	-6%
10	Tarragona province Provisional	347,526	+0.7%
11	Valencia province Provisional	344,482	+5.3%
12	Granada province Provisional	282,040	+7.3%
13	Cádiz province Provisional	274,352	+7%
14	A Coruña province Provisional	214,993	+10.6%
15	Biscay province Provisional	154,430	+1.2%
16	Asturias province Provisional	147,543	-7.2%
17	Gipuzkoa province Provisional	144,938	-1.1%
18	Zaragoza province Provisional	144,682	+1.5%
19	Pontevedra province Provisional	143,266	+0.5%
20	Murcia province Provisional	132,474	+0.9%
21	Castellón province Provisional	127,193	+6.6%
22	Almería province Provisional	115,549	+0.6%
23	Cantabria province Provisional	112,032	-2.2%
24	Navarre province Provisional	108,589	+6.7%
25	Córdoba province Provisional	108,301	-10.7%
26	Huelva province Provisional	107,102	+8.8%
27	Salamanca province Provisional	91,887	-1%
28	Toledo province Provisional	90,941	-4.3%
29	Burgos province Provisional	85,782	+0.1%
30	León province Provisional	79,592	+0.3%
31	Lugo province Provisional	72,220	-9.2%
32	Badajoz province Provisional	70,433	-2%
33	Cáceres province Provisional	68,873	+3.6%
34	Huesca province Provisional	68,259	+6.4%
35	Lleida province Provisional	65,728	-1.8%
36	Valladolid province Provisional	59,766	-0.4%
37	Jaén province Provisional	57,318	-1.4%
38	La Rioja province Provisional	53,313	+1.7%
39	Segovia province Provisional	45,476	-10.2%
40	Ciudad Real province Provisional	42,761	+7.4%
41	Teruel province Provisional	42,595	-1.2%
42	Álava province Provisional	40,988	-5.6%
43	Albacete province Provisional	36,462	-3.7%
44	Ávila province Provisional	33,415	-3.1%
45	Ourense province Provisional	31,780	+9.3%
46	Cuenca province Provisional	27,728	+3.3%
47	Guadalajara province Provisional	27,668	-1.6%
48	Soria province Provisional	22,750	-0.4%
49	Zamora province Provisional	18,525	-3.9%
50	Palencia province Provisional	18,010	-11.5%

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?

Barcelona province, with 1.18 million in April 2026, according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

Which province has the lowest hotel guests?

Palencia province, with 18,010 in April 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.