Spanish passport


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

As of November 2024, Spanish passport holders had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 192 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

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania