Barcelona, with 20.33 million tourist overnight stays, topped the list of Spanish cities with the highest number of overnight stays in 2016, according to data from the Urban Indicators report recently published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Barcelona managed in 2016 to surpass the city of Madrid, second in the ranking with 19.84 million overnight stays. In the previous year, Madrid had occupied the first position in this ranking with 19.29 million overnight stays. That year 2015 Barcelona accumulated 19.23 million tourist overnight stays.
The third Spanish city with the highest number of tourist overnight stays in 2016 was Benidorm, in the province of Alicante, with 16.54 million.
The rest of the cities in this ranking are already below 10 million annual overnight stays. The fourth is Palma de Mallorca, with 8.93 million, and the fifth Torremolinos (Málaga), with 5.73 million. Seville (5.53 million) and Valencia (4.6 million) occupy the next two positions.
Among the top 15 cities in this ranking, there are 9 provincial capitals: Granada, Málaga, Alicante and Zaragoza are added to the already mentioned Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Seville and Valencia.
In addition, in the ranking there are 6 cities that are not provincial capitals. Four of them –Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Marbella and Fuengirola- belong to the province of Málaga. The other two are Benidorm (Alicante) and Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz).
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