Spanish ports ranked by passengers in 2025: the year in review

Spanish ports received 42.5 million passengers in 2025, 4% more than in 2024 (1.62 million more). These are the final figures from Puertos del Estado’s statistical yearbook for the 28 port authorities.

It is the highest annual figure in the 2012–2025 series.

In the 2025 ranking, the ports moving up on 2024 are Málaga (from 9th to 8th); those moving down are Almería (from 8th to 9th). The top three positions are unchanged.

Scheduled-line passengers: 28.4 million passengers in 2025, 1.4% more than in 2024. Baleares ranks first on this measure, with 7.35 million passengers.

Baleares ranks first among port authorities with 9.9 million passengers in 2025 (1.4% less than in 2024). It is followed by Santa Cruz de Tenerife (7.45 million) and Bahía de Algeciras (6.35 million). Together, the three account for 55.8% of the total.

The largest increases were recorded by Alicante (+19.4%), A Coruña (+14.4%) and Málaga (+12.4%); the steepest falls by Melilla (−14.0%), Almería (−9.3%) and Bahía de Cádiz (−9.1%). The comparison is limited to port authorities that account for at least 1% of the total, so that an extreme swing at a small player does not distort the picture.

The rest of the top ten are Barcelona (4th, 5.79 million, +7.3%), Las Palmas (5th, 3.62 million, +3.0%), Ceuta (6th, 2.01 million, +3.0%), Valencia (7th, 1.66 million, +3.4%), Málaga (8th, 935,984 passengers, +12.4%), Almería (9th, 896,530 passengers, −9.3%) and Bahía de Cádiz (10th, 669,643 passengers, −9.1%).

At the bottom of the table are Pasaia (1,251 passengers), Vilagarcía (1,012 passengers) and Avilés (221 passengers), out of a total of 28 port authorities with data.

The distribution is highly concentrated: the top five account for 77.9% of the total and 6 port authorities are enough to reach 80%, while the other 18 port authorities further down share the remaining 7.5%. 18 of the 27 port authorities with a comparison grew compared with 2024, 10 of them by double digits, and 9 fell.

Of the 12 months of 2025 with data, 10 are above the same month of 2024 and 2 below; over the last three months (October, November, December) the figure is up 2.5% on the same months of 2024; the largest year-on-year difference was in April (up 28.6%); the highest point in the series was August, at 6.33 M, and the lowest February, at 2.08 M.

Between 2012 and 2025 the figure went from 26.9 M to 42.5 M, an increase of 58% over 13 years (+3.6% a year on average); the last year is the high point of the series and the low was 2020 (13.3 M).

Total passengers include scheduled lines (ferries to the Balearic and Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Morocco, Algeria and Italy), cruises and harbour services. It is a highly seasonal traffic: July and August bring Operation Crossing the Strait (Operación Paso del Estrecho) and the Balearic high season, while cruises peak in spring and autumn.

Puertos del Estado. To explore the data in detail, use PortStats · passengers or see the original source.