NOTE: Last update of this article occurred on December 16th.
Can I travel to Spain?
Travellers arriving from the following countries may enter Spain
- 🇪🇺 European Union or Schengen Area
- 🇮🇸 Iceland
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇨🇳 China
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- 🇹🇭 Thailand
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay
Travelling from a high risk country
Spain has a list of countries which are deemed high risk. If travelling to Spain from one of these countries, in all cases, starting from November 23, a negative PCR test carried out within 72 hours prior to your arrival in Spain is mandatory.
From December 10th, TMA (Transcription Mediated Amplification) and RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification) are also accepted diagnostic tests. Also, from this date, children under 6 years old are exempt from the test requirement.
High risk countries
EU and EEA countries
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus
- 🇭🇷 Croatia
- 🇩🇰 Denmark (except the Faroe Island and Greenland)
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia
- 🇪🇪 Estonia
- 🇫🇷 France (except Guadaloupe)
- 🇫🇮Finland (except the following regions: Etela-Suomi, Lansi-Suomi, Pohjois-JaIta-Suomi and Aland)
- 🇬🇷 Greece
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇱🇻 Latvia
- 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- 🇱🇺 Luxemburg
- 🇲🇹 Malta
- 🇳🇴 Norway (except the following regions: Agder, Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Rogaland, Troms og Finnmark, Trøndelag, Vestfold og Telemark and Vestland)
- 🇳🇱 The Netherlands
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
Third countries
- 🇦🇱 Albania
- 🇦🇩 Andorra
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- 🇦🇲 Armenia
- 🇦🇼 Aruba
- 🇦🇿Azerbaijan
- 🇧🇿 Belize
- 🇧🇾Belarus
- 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 🇧🇷Brazil
- 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
- 🇨🇦Canada
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- 🇨🇼Curacao
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
- 🇺🇸 United States of America
- 🇷🇺 Russian Federation
- 🇬🇪 Georgia
- 🇬🇮 Gibraltar (UK)
- 🇬🇺 Guam
- 🇮🇷Iran
- 🇯🇪Jersey (UK)
- 🇯🇴 Jordan
- 🇱🇧 Lebanon
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
- 🇲🇦 Morocco
- 🇲🇩 Moldova
- 🇲🇨 Monaco
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro
- 🇵🇸 Palestine
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- 🇵🇫 French Polynesia (France)
- 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- 🇸🇲 San Marino
- 🇸🇽 San Martin (Netherlands)
- 🇷🇸 Serbia
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
1. Quarantine
Travelers will be requested to self-isolate only if they have coronavirus symptoms. You must not travel to Spain if you have symptoms relating to COVID-19 or suspect you have such symptoms.
2. Health control form
Travellers must fill in a health control form (FCS) and sign it electronically before travelling to Spain. You can access the form and sign it via the Spain Travel Health website or apps for Android or iOS devices. After you sign it you will receive a QR code which you must present when you arrive in Spain (it is valid in both digital and printed formats). Remember that you must fill in a separate form for each trip and each person.
All travelers arriving in Spain by air or sea will go through a health check. This check may include having their temperature taken, checking their documents, and a visual examination of the passenger’s state of health. In all cases, you must show your health control form (FCS).
Also, all tourists travelling to the Canary Islands must present a negative PCR or antigen test taken no more than 72 hours earlier in order to stay in any accommodation establishment on the islands.
3. Health check at arrival
All travellers arriving in Spain by air or sea will go through a health check. This check may include having their temperature taken, checking their documents, and a visual examination of the passenger’s state of health. In all cases, you must present the health control form (HCF) and a negative PCR test result carried out within 72 hours prior to arrival (in paper or digital format) could also be required, if you are travelling from a high risk country or area. If the health control form reveals any indication of possible symptoms of COVID-19, the traveller must undergo a diagnostic test in the airport upon arrival in Spain.Additionally, all tourist accommodation on the Canary Islands require tourists to present a negative PCR or antígen test taken in the last 72 hours.
4. Measures across Spain
There may be differences in each region, depending on their situation. Each Autonomous Region may change the measures or issue additional measures. Links to the official information of each Autonomous Region are given below, and we recommend asking the Tourist Office at your destination, or the information helpline of the region, about any questions you may have.
- Andalusia: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Asturias: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Aragon: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Balearic Islands: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Canary Islands: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Cantabria: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Castilla – La Mancha: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Castilla y León: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Catalonia: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Ceuta: information for the public
- Region of Madrid: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Navarre: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Region of Valencia: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Extremadura: information for the public / regulations
- Galicia: Information for the public / regulations
- La Rioja: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Melilla: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Basque Country: information for the public / regulations / current situation
- Region of Murcia: information for the public / regulations / current situation
More detailed information can be found here.
5. Additional measures
Everybody aged 6 or over must wear a mask in all public spaces and on public transport. Masks are the only compulsory protective equipment.
All tourist services are working to ensure everyone’s safety, based on three essential principles: social distancing, hygiene, and responsible behaviour. Measures may be changed when necessary to respond to the local COVID-19 situation. Always follow the recommendations.
In general, there will be restrictions on people circulating at night from 11 pm to 6 am, although there may be a one-hour difference in these times according to the Autonomous Region, and this measure does not apply in the Canary Islands. Smoking is also prohibited in the street or in outdoor areas if a minimum distance of two metres cannot be maintained.
