Spain Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Jul 9, 2025

Updated: July 9, 2025

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Spain Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Spain. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Spain - Address Format

An address format in Spain contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Postal Code (5 digits) and City Name
Province (optional)
Country – SPAIN (in all caps)

John Smith
Calle de Almagro 14I
50004 Zaragoza
SPAIN

Spain Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
C. Sebastián Trujillo 29
41005 Sevilla
SPAIN

Example 2:

Spain Post Office
C. de Turismundo 4
28011 Madrid
SPAIN

Postal and Country Information for Spain

Country/territory name	Spain
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: ES ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ESP ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 724
Administrative area count	19
Administration area names and abbreviations	Andalusia Aragon Balearic Islands Basque Country Canarias Cantabria Castille and Leon Castille-La Mancha Catalonia Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid Murcia Navarre Principality of Asturias Valencian Community Ceuta Melilla	AN AR IB PV CN CB CL CM CT EX GA RI MD MC NC AS VC CE ML
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	99999
Population	47 344 716
Total land area	506 022km²

How to Validate Addresses for Spain Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Spain addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Spain, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Postal Codes, Cities and Provinces in Spain
Postal Database if you only need to validate Postal Codes, Cities and Provinces in Spain
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Spain segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Spain using:

Street column to validate Street names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Region 4 column to validate City names
Region 2 column to validate Provinces

Explore our Spain address database.

Our location dataset for Spain

Spain ZIP Codes

Spain utilizes a five-digit numeric postal code system, locally known as Código postal, with a format of 99999. The first two digits of the Código postal identify the province, and the last three digits specify the postal distribution unit. This system covers the mainland, islands, and autonomous cities.

According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Spain has 10,818 postal codes, 8,681 regions, and 73,291 towns. Similar to US ZIP codes, Spain’s postal codes are entirely numeric, but they differ in length as US ZIP codes are five-digit numeric with an optional four-digit extension, whereas Spanish postal codes are strictly five-digit numeric.

Spain ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Spain administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Spain Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Spain’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.