Regulations / Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla
Short-term rental rules in Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla
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Registration
We're still verifying the exact name and procedure for the tourist registration in Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla against an official source. Check your region's tourism portal.
Requirements
Requirements currently being verified.
Fines
We haven't yet confirmed the exact fine amounts for Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla against an official source — No sanctioning regime specific to tourist home rental was found for Melilla, beyond the generic tourism sanctioning regime in Decreto 351/2010, whose full text couldn't be accessed directly (only a portal summary, not the actual articles).. Check your region's tourism portal for the current detail.
Active regulatory alerts
The number of tourist-use homes in Melilla is very low: INE counts 38 tourist homes in the city, and when Spain's national Unified Rental Registry launched (mandatory since 1 July 2025), only 107 tourist homes were confirmed across Ceuta and Melilla combined, with just 14.9% of applications started six months in. This is consistent with the apparent absence of a modern, VUT-specific regional decree: Melilla appears to regulate tourist accommodation mainly through its generic 2010 tourism regulation (which treats "apartamentos turísticos" as a classic accommodation category rather than the private-home-rental VUT figure most other regions have), similarly to Ceuta.
Source: elfarodemelilla.es (INE; balance registro único) — verified 2026-07-16
Guest registration
System: SES.Hospedajes, reported within 24h of arrival.
Base regulations
- Decreto n.º 351, de 19 de julio de 2010, por el que se aprueba con carácter definitivo el Reglamento de Turismo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla
Source: melilla.es (portal oficial) / BOME — verified 2026-07-16
Verification notes
Verified on 2026-07-16. Confirmed the existence of Decreto 351/2010 (Melilla's General Tourism Regulation) as the current general framework, via the official melilla.es portal, but could not confirm whether a specific "vivienda de uso turístico" (VUT) figure equivalent to other regions' exists, nor a dedicated registration procedure, technical requirements, or sector-specific sanctions — the full regulation text wasn't accessible, and no later decree or BOME publication dedicated to VUT was found. Melilla (an Autonomous City, like Ceuta) appears to rely on a generic tourism regulation and possibly on municipal ordinances that weren't located, more than on dedicated regional VUT rules; the very low number of registered homes (38 per INE) is consistent with this hypothesis, but it is explicitly left unconfirmed. If your situation is in Melilla, we recommend a direct consultation with the Tourism department before treating any data on this page as final.
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