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Spanish passport

Passports issued to Spanish nationals

Field	Value
document_name
image	Pasaporte_ES.svg
image_caption	Front cover of a contemporary Spanish biometric passport (with chip [[Image:EPassport logo.svg	20px]])
image2	ESPpassportdatapage.png
image_caption2	The data page of a contemporary Spanish biometric passport
date_first_issued	14 August 2006 (biometric passport)2 January 2015 (current biometric version 3.0)
using_jurisdiction	Spain National Police Corps
Spain Guardia Civil
Spain Spanish embassies and consulates
document_type	Passport
purpose	Identification
eligibility	Spanish citizenship
expiration	Spanish passports expire 5 years after issuance when borne by citizens up to the age of 30, and 10 years for citizens aged 30 and above
cost	€30.00

Spain Guardia Civil Spain Spanish embassies and consulates

A Spanish passport () is an identity document issued to Spanish citizens with right of abode in the Iberian mainland, Ceuta, Melilla, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, for travel outside Spain. Every Spanish citizen is also a citizen of the European Union. The passport, along with the national identity card, allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Union, European Economic Area, and Switzerland.

Spanish citizens have visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 186 countries and territories, which places Spanish passport holders is in the 3rd-ranking group in the world according to January 2026 Henley Passport Index.

Types

Ordinary Passport () – issued for ordinary travel, such as vacations and business trips
Collective Passport () – issued for the occasion of pilgrimages, excursions and other acts of analogous nature, whenever reciprocity with the destination country exists; its validity is limited a single trip, whose duration will not be able to exceed three months.
Diplomatic Passport () – issued to Spanish diplomats, top-ranking government officials, and diplomatic couriers.
Official and Service Passports () – issued to individuals representing the Spanish government on official business

Visa requirements map

Main article: Visa requirements for Spanish citizens

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As of November 2024, Spanish passport holders had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 192 (compared to 195 as the most) countries and territories, placing the ordinary Spanish passport in the second-ranking group according to the number of destinations that their holders can access without a prior visa.

Spanish citizens can live and work in any country within the EU due to the right of free movement and residence granted in Article 21 of the EU Treaty.

Visa duration (in some countries)

Africa

Botswana: 90 days
Comoros (visa on arrival)
Djibouti: 1 month (visa on arrival)
Egypt: 1 month (visa on arrival, 25€)
Ethiopia: 3 months (visa on arrival)
Kenya: 3 months (visa on arrival)
Lesotho: 14 days
Madagascar: 3 months (visa on arrival)
Malawi: 3 months
Mauritius: 6 months
Mayotte: unlimited access
Morocco: 3 months
Mozambique: 1 month (visa on arrival)
Namibia: 3 months
Réunion: unlimited access
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: 90 days
Senegal: 3 months
Seychelles: 1 month
South Africa: 3 months
Eswatini (visa-free on arrival)
Tanzania (visa on arrival)
Togo: 7 days (visa on arrival)
Tunisia: 4 months
Uganda (visa on arrival)
Zambia (visa on arrival)
Zimbabwe: 3 months (visa on arrival)

Americas

Anguilla: 3 months
Antigua and Barbuda: 1 month
Dutch Caribbean: 14 days
Argentina: 3 months
Aruba: 3 months
The Bahamas: 3 months
Barbados: 6 months
Belize: 1 month
Bermuda: 6 months
Bolivia: 3 months
Brazil: 3 months (hotel booking + return ticket)
Canada: 6 months (previous authorization of eTA system)
Cayman Islands: 1 month
Chile: 3 months
Colombia: 3 months
Costa Rica: 3 months
Dominica: 6 months
Dominican Republic: 1 month (With tourist card of 10 USD $)
Ecuador: 3 months
El Salvador: 3 months
French Guiana: unlimited access
Greenland: 3 months
Grenada: 3 months
Guadeloupe: unlimited access
Guatemala: 3 months
Guyana: 3 months
Haiti: 3 months
Honduras: 3 months
Jamaica: 3 months
Martinique: unlimited access
Mexico: 6 months
Montserrat: 3 months
Nicaragua: 3 months
Panama: 3 months
Paraguay: 3 months
Peru: 3 months
Puerto Rico: 3 months (previous authorization of ESTA system) or 6 months (Visa required prior to arrival)
Saint Kitts and Nevis: 3 months
Saint Lucia: 28 days
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 3 months
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 1 month
Trinidad and Tobago: 3 months
Turks and Caicos Islands: 1 month
United States: 3 months (previous authorization of ESTA system) or 6 months (Visa required prior to arrival)
Uruguay: 3 months
Venezuela: 3 months
British Virgin Islands: 1 month
United States Virgin Islands: 3 months (previous authorization of ESTA system)

Asia

Armenia: 90 days
Azerbaijan: 30 days (visa on arrival)
Bahrain: 90 days (visa on arrival €75)
Bangladesh: 15 days (visa on arrival)
Brunei: 90 days
Cambodia: 1 month (visa on arrival US$30)
China: 15 days ( Visa-free, taking effect from 1 December 2023 to November 2024)
Hong Kong: 3 months
Indonesia: 30 days (visa on arrival)
Iran: 15 days (visa on arrival - only in international airports)
Iraq: visa on arrival
Israel: 3 months
Japan: 90 days (extendable until 180 days)
Jordan: 1 month (visa on arrival, 10JOD)
Kuwait: 3 months (visa on arrival)
Kyrgyzstan: 1 month (visa on arrival)
Laos: 30 days (visa on arrival, US$35)
Lebanon: 1 month (visa on arrival, 25000LL)
Macau: 1 year
Malaysia: 3 months
Maldives: 30 days
Nepal: 60 days (visa on arrival)
Oman: 1 month (visa on arrival)
Philippines: 30 days
Qatar: 21 days (visa on arrival)
South Korea: 3 months
Singapore: 30 days
Sri Lanka: 30 days
Thailand: 30 days by air, 15 days by land/sea
Taiwan: 90 days
East Timor: 30 days (visa on arrival)
United Arab Emirates: 30 days (visa on arrival)
Vietnam: 45 days
Yemen: 3 months (visa on arrival)

Europe

Albania: 1 month
Andorra:
Belarus: 30 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 90 days
Faroe Islands: 90 days
Georgia: 1 year
Guernsey: 6 months
Iceland: unlimited access
Isle of Man: 6 months
Jersey: 6 months
Kazakhstan: 30 days
Liechtenstein: unlimited access
Moldova: 90 days
Monaco: 90 days
Montenegro: 90 days
North Macedonia: 90 days
Norway: unlimited access
San Marino: 90 days
Serbia: 90 days
Switzerland: unlimited access
Ukraine: 90 days
Vatican City: 90 days
United Kingdom: 6 months

Oceania

American Samoa: 30 days
Australia: e-visa (Electronic Travel Authority)
Norfolk Island: e-visa (Electronic Travel Authority)
Fiji: 4 months
French Polynesia: 90 days
Guam: 90 days
Kiribati: 28 days
Marshall Islands: 30 days (visa on arrival)
Micronesia: 30 days
New Caledonia: 90 days
New Zealand: 3 months
Northern Mariana Islands: 30 days
Cook Islands: 31 days
Niue: 30 days
Palau: 30 days (visa on arrival)
Papua New Guinea: 90 days (visa on arrival)
Samoa: 60 days
Solomon Islands: 3 months
Tonga: 31 days
Tuvalu: 1 month (visa on arrival)
Vanuatu: 30 days
Wallis and Futuna: 90 days

Gallery

File:Pasaporte de un exiliado español emitido por el consulado en Burdeos, Francia (2).jpg|Passport issued to a Spanish republican in exile by the Spanish consulate in Bordeaux, France, in 1948. File:19520809 Spanisch-Ifni Reisepass.jpg|Passport issued to a Spanish resident in Ifni province, 1951 File:Spanish passport year 1988.jpg|Leather "green cover" Spanish ordinary passport, issued in 1988

References

[http://www.interior.gob.es/web/servicios-al-ciudadano/tasas/pasaporte Pasaporte]
(2024). "Henley Passport Ranking September 2024". Henley & Partners.
"Henly Passport Index {{!}} Global Passport Ranking".
[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:0047:0199:EN:PDF Treaty on the Function of the European Union] (consolidated version)

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