Spanish postal codes were introduced on 1 July 1984, when the introduced automated mail sorting. They consist of five numerical digits, where the first two digits, ranging 01 to 52, correspond either to one of the 50 provinces of Spain or to one of the two autonomous cities on the African coast.
Two-digit prefixes
The first two digits of a Spanish postal code identify the province or autonomous city it belongs to. The numbers were assigned to the 50 provinces of Spain ordered alphabetically at the time of implementation. The official names of some of the provinces have since changed, either to the regional language version of the name (e.g. from the Spanish to the Basque ) or to adopt the name of the autonomous community instead of the provincial capital (e.g. Santander to Cantabria). In these cases, the originally assigned code has been maintained, resulting in some exceptions to the alphabetical order. In addition, Ceuta and Melilla were originally included within the postal areas of Cádiz and Málaga respectively; in 1995 they were assigned their own codes and hence ended up at the end of the list.
The list below includes all 52 two-digit prefixes assigned to the 50 provinces and two autonomous cities. Included in brackets are the names of the provinces that were used for alphabetical sorting at the time of implementation, if different from the current name used in English.
01 Álava 02 Albacete 03 Alicante 04 Almería 05 Ávila 06 Badajoz 07 Balearic Islands () 08 Barcelona 09 Burgos 10 Cáceres 11 Cádiz 12 Castellón 13 Ciudad Real 14 Córdoba 15 A Coruña () 16 Cuenca 17 Girona () 18 Granada 19 Guadalajara 20 Gipuzkoa () 21 Huelva 22 Huesca 23 Jaén 24 León 25 Lleida () 26 La Rioja () 27 Lugo 28 Madrid 29 Málaga 30 Murcia 31 Navarre () 32 Ourense () 33 Asturias () 34 Palencia 35 Las Palmas () 36 Pontevedra 37 Salamanca 38 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 39 Cantabria () 40 Segovia 41 Seville () 42 Soria 43 Tarragona 44 Teruel 45 Toledo 46 Valencia 47 Valladolid 48 Biscay () 49 Zamora 50 Zaragoza 51 Ceuta 52 Melilla
Following digits The third digit of a Spanish postal code is used to identify major cities or basic itineraries. A zero denotes a provincial capital, e.g. San Sebastián, as capital of the province of Gipuzkoa, uses the postal code 200xx.
The fourth and fifth digits are used to identify delivery areas, route itineraries or rural link itineraries.
Some codes are reserved for special use at the province capital: 070: official use by Correos 071: to address state agencies at the given province 080: P.O. boxes and mail lists
References
External links Find a postcode (Spanish post office website) Another postcode finder – displays results on a map List of ZIP codes of Spanish municipalities Search engine for postal codes in Spain