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Spain day-count rules

Spending time in Spain? The rules below can affect tax residency, your right to remain and any path to residence or citizenship. This page brings Spain's day-count rules together — each explained in plain English, with a calculator and a link to the official source.

Tax residency

• 🇪🇸Avoid Spain tax residencyResidence is triggered at 183 days in a tax year, so the safe ceiling is 182. Day count is one test among several in most systems — ties, home and centre of interests can make you resident on fewer days.<=182 / YEAR
• 🇪🇸Become Spain tax residentReaching 183 days in a tax year triggers residence under the day-count test.>=183 / YEAR

Residence & citizenship

• 🇪🇸Spain residence — continuityRenewals and the ten-year nationality route both need continuity of residence; absences beyond six months in a year are what break it. Long-term residence is lost after twelve consecutive months outside the EU.<=182 AWAY / 365