Balearic rental fleet: what the DGT registry counts

Mallorca is planning limits on hire cars, and the public figures run from about 15,000 to 60,000. We counted what the official register holds, year by year. Renviq sells rental software; this piece takes no side on the caps.

How many rental vehicles are on the register

Vehicles with service code A01 domiciled on each island, on 31 December:

Cars only:

The island totals are minimums. The DGT blanks the municipality when it has fewer than 10,000 residents, and in 2025 only 25 of the 67 Balearic municipalities are named. Not shown are 36 in Mallorca, 5 in Menorca and Sant Joan de Labritja in Ibiza. If all 7,640 vehicles without a municipality were Mallorcan the island would reach 26,405, of which 18,527 cars. The file cannot split them. Alaior, in Menorca, is also absent in 2023, which explains part of that year's dip.

The 48,428 vehicles of 2025 are 7.75% of Spain's 625,121 A01 vehicles. 57.2% are cars (27,677), 32.4% motorcycles and mopeds (15,678) and 10.5% other types (5,073). In Formentera, 6,132 of 7,604 are motorcycles and mopeds. Since 2019, before the pandemic, the Balearics have grown 4.0%; Spain, 20.0%. Counted from 2020, the lowest year, the figures are 12.7% and 38.9%, but that is mostly recovery.

Why it is a floor and not the August fleet

The PROVINCIA field is the province where the vehicle is domiciled on the register, not where it works. A fleet domiciled on the mainland and shipped in for the season does not appear here. Madrid holds 258,996 A01 vehicles, 41.4% of the country. The president of Aevab said in 2023 that there are "compañías que tributan donde matriculan los vehículos" (companies paying tax where they register their vehicles), according to Mallorca Global Mag.

Ibiza shows the size of the gap. According to Noudiari (14 May 2026), firms requested authorisation for 24,112 vehicles for the 2026 season and the Consell d'Eivissa will grant the 14,000 maximum; the allocation still had to go through the Consell Executiu and public exposure. The register held 6,766 A01 cars domiciled in Ibiza on 31 December 2025, and 12,317 vehicles of all types. A request is not a vehicle in service, but the distance shows that domicile does not describe the seasonal fleet.

That same figure moved abruptly: Ibiza's cars went from 3,334 to 6,766 in a year, and the all-types total in Sant Josep de sa Talaia from 2,942 to 5,931. The register does not say why.

How this fits with the other figures

According to the Majorca Daily Bulletin, the Consell is now collecting detailed fleet data from hire firms and officials say "updated data is now essential" before setting how many vehicles may enter by sea and how many hire cars may operate each year. Reus's 2026 and 2023 figures cannot be compared without knowing what each includes. The register neither confirms nor refutes any of them: it measures something else.

How it was counted

The source is the DGT's yearly files for 2020 to 2025, about 37 to 39 million rows each, one row per vehicle, with no plate or owner. We filtered SERVICIO = A01, grouped by PROVINCIA = 07 and assigned islands from the INE code in MUNICIPIO. We publish aggregates only: the counts as CSV. The script and the method let anyone repeat it.

Data origin: Dirección General de Tráfico, Microdatos de parque de vehículos (Anual), last update stated by the DGT: 31/12/2025. Our own analysis. The DGT neither takes part in nor endorses it.

What this count does not say

• It does not measure cars in use. The public file lacks the DGT's circulating-fleet flag, so it can include parked vehicles.
• It does not measure tourist rental alone. A01 includes vans, lorries and trailers, and sometimes long-term renting: 1,186 Balearic vehicles carry that flag in 2025, but the field is blank on 13,675.
• It does not measure companies. The file does not identify the holder.
• It is not a summer snapshot. The cut-off is 31 December.

If you run a fleet on the islands, the Consell de Mallorca is already asking firms for detailed fleet data.