Santiago de Compostela tourist tax 2026: €1–€2.50 per person per night

In Santiago de Compostela the tourist tax is €1 to €2.50 per person aged 18 or over per night, depending on the type of accommodation, for at most 5 nights per stay (City of Santiago ordinance 1.32 and Galician Law 5/2024, checked on 4 November 2026). Hotels with 4 stars superior or 5 stars charge €2.50; hotels from 2 stars superior to 4 stars and holiday rentals (viviendas de uso turístico) €2; 2-star, 1-star superior and 1-star hotels and guest houses €1.50; hostels (albergues), campsites, rural tourism, tourist apartments and tourist houses €1. Stays in the public Xunta pilgrim hostels and in youth hostels are exempt.

Santiago de Compostela 2026: €1.00–€2.50 per person per night

• Per person per night
• Max 5 taxable nights
• Under 18s exempt
• Spain

Municipal surcharge on the Galician tax on tourist stays (recarga municipal ao imposto autonómico ás estadías turísticas). The calculator below uses the official rates and rules: a fixed amount per person per night by accommodation type, maximum taxable nights, exemption under 18.

Official source: Concello de Santiago de Compostela - Ordenanza fiscal 1.32 reguladora da recarga sobre o imposto autonómico ás estadías turísticas, final text approved by the City Council on 31 July 2025, in force from 1 October 2025 (Boletín Oficial da Provincia da Coruña no. 148, 6 August 2025): art. 3 (exemptions), art. 6 (base), art. 7 (100% surcharge) · checked on 4 November 2026

Compostela Holy Year 2027

2027 is a Compostela Holy Year (Año Santo Compostelano). The Cathedral of Santiago explains that it is a Holy Year when 25 July, the feast of Saint James, falls on a Sunday, as it does in 2027. The ordinance has no special rate for the Holy Year (as of 4 November 2026): the amounts on this page apply. Stays in the public pilgrim hostels run by the Xunta de Galicia and in youth hostels are exempt; other hostels (albergues) charge €1 per guest aged 18 or over per night. The hoteliers' association has challenged the ordinance in court; the High Court of Galicia refused to suspend it (30 September 2025) and will rule on the merits later.

Official source: Cathedral of Santiago - Pilgrimage page: Holy Year section ('2027 – Año Santo Compostelano': a Holy Year when 25 July falls on a Sunday), checked 4 November 2026; Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela - Pastoral letter for the Compostela Holy Year 2027, checked 4 November 2026; Poder Judicial (CGPJ) - 'El TSXG deniega a los hoteleros la suspensión cautelar de la tasa turística en Santiago de Compostela' (30 September 2025): the court refused the interim suspension requested by the Asociación Unión Hotelera Compostela and will rule on the merits in its judgment, checked 4 November 2026

Formula used

Tax = rate per person per night × guests aged 18 or over × taxable nights (maximum 5 taxable nights per stay; no tax on nights before 1 October 2025, when it started).

Example: 2 adults, 3 nights from 5 November 2026, Hotel 5 stars superior → €15.00 in total.

Not tax advice. Tourist taxes are set by local or national authorities and can change. They are usually collected by your hotel or host, who applies the official rules: check the final amount with your accommodation.

Official rates

Official source: Concello de Santiago de Compostela - Ordenanza fiscal 1.32 reguladora da recarga sobre o imposto autonómico ás estadías turísticas, final text approved by the City Council on 31 July 2025, in force from 1 October 2025 (Boletín Oficial da Provincia da Coruña no. 148, 6 August 2025): art. 3 (exemptions), art. 6 (base), art. 7 (100% surcharge) · checked on 4 November 2026

Practical notes

• Charged per guest aged 18 or over for each day of stay, up to 5 days per stay (Galician Law 5/2024, art. 15). The days are counted with the accommodation's check-in and check-out times (ordinance 1.32, art. 6): the calculator counts one day per night.
• Galicia's own tax on tourist stays has a 100% reduction (Law 5/2024, art. 17), so the regional part is zero. What you pay in Santiago is the City's surcharge, set at 100% of the regional rate before the reduction (ordinance 1.32, art. 7): the amounts in the table.
• The Spanish Tax Agency told Turismo de Santiago that the tax is part of the price on which VAT is charged (information reply of 10 October 2025), so your bill may show VAT on top of these amounts.
• This page covers the municipality of Santiago de Compostela only. Other Galician towns charge the tax only if their council has approved its own surcharge.

Who collects it: The accommodation charges it to the guest and pays it to the City every six months (ordinance 1.32, art. 10).

Exemptions (official)

• Minors (under 18, not emancipated)
• People with a recognised disability of 65% or more
• Stays in the public pilgrim hostels (albergues) run by the Xunta de Galicia through the S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo
• Stays in youth hostels (albergues xuvenís)
• Stays subsidised by social programmes of a public administration of an EU member state
• Not subject: stays for health care within the Galician public health system (and companions), federated athletes at official competitions, force majeure. Each case needs proof (a signed declaration or a certificate)

Official sources

• Concello de Santiago de Compostela - Ordenanza fiscal 1.32 reguladora da recarga sobre o imposto autonómico ás estadías turísticas, final text approved by the City Council on 31 July 2025, in force from 1 October 2025 (Boletín Oficial da Provincia da Coruña no. 148, 6 August 2025): art. 3 (exemptions), art. 6 (base), art. 7 (100% surcharge) – PDF (Galician), checked 4 November 2026
• Turismo de Santiago (City of Santiago tourism company) - Questions and answers on the municipal surcharge: rates by type of accommodation, maximum five days, exemptions – PDF (Galician), checked 4 November 2026
• Turismo de Santiago - Taxable base of the surcharge (ordinance 1.32, art. 6) and the rates of art. 16 of Galician Law 5/2024 applied from 1 October 2025 – PDF (Galician), checked 4 November 2026
• Galician Law 5/2024 of 27 December on fiscal and administrative measures, consolidated text (BOE-A-2025-2145, last update published 27 March 2026): art. 13 (exemptions), art. 15 (maximum five days per stay), art. 16 (rates), art. 17 (100% reduction of the regional tax), art. 24 (municipal surcharge) – HTML (Spanish), checked 4 November 2026
• Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT) reply of 10 October 2025 to Turismo de Santiago: the tax and the municipal surcharge form part of the VAT base of the accommodation – PDF (Spanish), checked 4 November 2026
  An information reply, not a binding ruling (it says so itself).

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