Hospital parking in Spain: prices, passes and alternatives
Visiting a relative in hospital in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or Sevilla often starts with a hunt for a parking space. Here is what each major hospital charges, which vouchers and passes exist for long stays and where you can park on the street, all checked on the websites of the hospitals and their car park operators.
Key points
- No hospital in this guide, and no operator, advertises free parking in general for patients or visitors: what exists are vouchers, passes and cheaper rates through an app.
- La Fe in Valencia sells vouchers for 3, 5, 8 and 10 consecutive days and charges at most €2.95 for a weekday evening and night. The voucher must be set up within 6 hours of entering.
- Next to La Paz, Madrid City Council reserves SER street spaces for health and care use: from €0.05 to €2.75, for a maximum of 4 hours.
- At Virgen del Rocío in Sevilla there are day, night, weekly, fortnightly and monthly passes, and the surrounding pay and display zone is charged from 8:00 to 22:00 on working days.
First things first: it is almost never free
At the big public hospitals of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Sevilla, the on-site car park is run by a concession company or a private operator, and each one sets its own prices. We went through the official pages of the hospitals in this guide and those of their operators: none of them advertises free parking in general for patients or visitors, and we found no rule from the Comunidad de Madrid, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Generalitat Valenciana or the Junta de Andalucía that provides for it.
What does exist, and what few people look up before they go, are products for long stays: vouchers covering several days, weekly or monthly passes, prepaid hour cards and discounts for paying through the operator’s app. For a one hour appointment they change very little. For a week long admission the difference can be large.
Three ideas work at any hospital:
- Ask about passes on the first day. At some car parks the multi-day voucher has to be set up shortly after you drive in.
- Check the operator’s app. At La Paz, for example, paying with it costs less than paying at the machine.
- Think about public transport. Below you will find the lines each hospital recommends, and it is often the calmest option.
Madrid
La Paz
The car park at La Paz Hospital, on the Paseo de la Castellana, is run by Interparking and open day and night. The card below shows its standard rate. If you pay with its app, P-app, one hour costs €3.49 and 24 hours €16.95, and stays charged by the minute get a 10 % discount. For daily visits during an admission, Interparking also sells a monthly pass and “multi-entry” passes with unlimited access for the period you choose.
The hospital’s access page mentions no reduced rate for patients or relatives.
On the street there is a little known alternative. The City Council sets aside spaces in its regulated parking scheme (SER) for health and care reasons around La Paz: this is the hospital zone, the only one of its kind the city mentions. The spaces are recognisable by red and white rectangles painted on the ground. You pay from €0.05 for 5 minutes up to €2.75 for a maximum of 4 hours. Once that time is up, you cannot park in the same zone again until 1 hour has passed.
The SER runs on working weekdays from 9:00 to 21:00 and on Saturdays from 9:00 to 15:00. Outside those hours, and on Sundays and public holidays, parking is free.
If you come by metro, Begoña station on line 10 connects directly with the car park.
Ramón y Cajal
The hospital has a paid underground car park run by Telpark, open 24 hours. You can pay in cash, by card or with the Telpark app, which lets you book a space and enter by number plate recognition. For people who come back several times, the operator offers a multiple entry product (Multipass).
A useful detail: if you go to give blood, the hospital gives you 3 free hours in the centre’s public car park. Ask the blood bank for the certificate once the donation is over.
Gregorio Marañón and 12 de Octubre
For the Gregorio Marañón, the hospital website points to the car parks on Calle Ibiza, O’Donnell and Menorca. The closest to the general hospital and the mother and child building is the Saba car park on O’Donnell, which does not publish a fixed rate: the price appears when you book on its website or in its app. The metro stops right next to it: O’Donnell and Sainz de Baranda on line 6, Ibiza on line 9.
The 12 de Octubre has a surface car park and an underground one below the outpatient building (Centro de Actividades Ambulatorias). The hospital does not publish its prices, but it does publish maps of the walking routes from each car park to the new inpatient building and to paediatric A&E. The site is large: look at the map before you set off and you will spare a tired patient a lot of wandering. By public transport there is the Hospital 12 de Octubre metro station (line 3), Cercanías commuter trains on line C5 and EMT buses 81 and 121.
Barcelona and L’Hospitalet
In Barcelona none of the hospitals in this guide publishes parking discounts for patients or relatives, and neither do their operators. The strategy is to choose the right car park and the right product.
Vall d’Hebron. Inside the grounds is the Masaveu car park, open 24 hours, with lifts straight into the hospital and spaces for people with reduced mobility. It charges by the minute, with a daily cap. Outside the grounds there are paid public car parks, such as the municipal B:SM one in Sant Genís, and the hospital itself points out that you can also leave the car on the street, in the blue or green zone. Metro: L3 and L5, Vall d’Hebron station.
Clínic. Next to the Villarroel site there are two car parks: MPARK, in the basements of the CEK building, and the Saba car park opposite Plaça del Doctor Ferrer i Cajigal, which connects with the outpatient department. Saba charges by the minute, with no discount advertised for patients. Metro: L5, Hospital Clínic station.
Sant Pau. The Saba car park sits right next to the hospital and does not advertise discounts for patients or relatives either. Metro: L4 at Guinardó/Hospital de Sant Pau and L5 at Sant Pau/Dos de Maig.
Hospital del Mar. The municipal B:SM car park by the seafront promenade offers the most choice for long admissions: the Parking Card 3 días costs from €42.00 and the Flexipark 50 pass from €66.65. Metro L4 and tram T4 at Ciutadella Vila Olímpica.
Bellvitge. In L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the hospital points to a paid car park on the right of the outpatient building (Consultes Externes), without publishing prices. Hospital de Bellvitge metro station, the end of line L1, is right beside it.
Valencia: La Fe, the most complete case
At La Fe the regional administration is involved: the car park is run by the Concesionaria Aparcamientos La Fe and its prices are subject to approval by the Conselleria de Sanitat, the regional health department. According to the hospital, it has more than 1,600 spaces, more than 1,000 of them for patients and visitors, and 50 for people with reduced mobility.
The standard rate is charged by the minute, slightly cheaper from 20:00 to 8:00, with a cap of €31.90 for a 10 hour day. What matters for a companion are the caps and the vouchers:
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| Evenings and nights, Monday to Friday, from 18:00 to 8:00 | €2.95 at most |
| Weekend or public holiday, each period from 8:00 to 8:00 | €2.95 at most |
| Voucher for 3 consecutive days | €40.00 |
| Voucher for 5 consecutive days | €55.00 |
| Voucher for 8 consecutive days | €75.00 |
| Voucher for 10 consecutive days | €90.00 |
| 25 hour card, valid for 3 months | €62.50 |
The price list also includes a 180 hour pass for €30.50, described as a prepaid card allocated by the hospital. The operator does not say who can request it: ask at the hospital itself or at the car park pay desk. The hospital says that information on passes for patients and visitors is available in the underground car park of the South area.
Another option the hospital mentions explicitly: the nearby streets have more than 1,000 free parking spaces. EMT bus lines 6, 8, 64 and 99 serve the hospital.
Sevilla: Virgen del Rocío
According to the hospital itself, Virgen del Rocío has 1,626 underground spaces run by concession companies, with spaces for people with reduced mobility and charging points. There are day, night, weekly, fortnightly and monthly passes: if your relative is going to stay several days, ask about the weekly or fortnightly pass at the car park itself.
The car park entered from Avenida Manuel Siurot is run by Masaveu, which publishes a rate of €0.0504 per minute with a maximum of €23.70 a day, VAT included. It also lends wheelchairs, a welcome detail if the patient has trouble walking.
The street is not the easy way out. The area around the hospital is the Bami zone of the regulated parking scheme, charged without a break from 8:00 to 22:00 Monday to Friday and from 10:00 to 14:00 on Saturdays, whereas in the rest of Sevilla regulation runs from 9:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 20:00. You pay at the meter or with the Apparkya app.
To organise shifts: general visiting hours are 16:00 to 20:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00 to 20:00 at weekends and on public holidays, and each patient may have one companion 24 hours a day.
If the stay is going to be long
- On the first day, ask at the car park pay desk which passes or vouchers it has and how soon you have to request them.
- Compare with the rate in the operator’s app, which is sometimes cheaper than the machine.
- Take turns with other relatives to come by public transport and keep the car for discharge day, when the patient leaves with bags or limited mobility.
- If you park on the street, check the rules of the regulated zone: around La Paz parking is limited to 4 hours, and around Virgen del Rocío the hours are longer than in the rest of Sevilla.
You can see all the car parks near hospitals in our database on our hospital parking page.
Frequently asked questions
Is parking free at Spanish public hospitals?
Are there discounts for relatives of an admitted patient?
How much is the 8 day voucher at La Fe?
Can I park on the street next to La Paz Hospital?
Do blood donors get anything?
Sources
- Interparking, aparcamiento Hospital La Paz
- Hospital Universitario La Paz, localización y acceso
- Ayuntamiento de Madrid, SER: horario, delimitación y ámbitos diferenciados
- Telpark, aparcamiento Hospital Ramón y Cajal
- Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, donación de sangre
- Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, localización y accesos
- Saba, aparcamiento Hospital Gregorio Marañón
- Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, cómo llegar al nuevo hospital
- Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, cómo llegar
- Masaveu Aparcamientos, Vall d'Hebron
- Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, localización
- Saba, aparcamiento Bamsa Hospital Clínic
- Saba, aparcamiento Hospital Sant Pau
- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, cómo llegar
- Aparcaments B:SM, Hospital del Mar
- Hospital del Mar, cómo llegar
- Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, on som
- Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe (GVA), cómo llegar
- Concesionaria Aparcamientos La Fe, tarifas y abonos
- Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, servicios a su disposición
- Masaveu Aparcamientos, Virgen del Rocío
- Apparkya, app del operador del estacionamiento regulado de Sevilla (GES)
Checked against official sources on 5 October 2026. Report an error
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