Spain

The country calling code for Spain is +34. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Spain number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Spain is assigned ES as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and ESP as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Spain is .es. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Spain is the Euro, with the ISO 4217 code EUR and the symbol €. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Spain are quoted in EUR. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Spain is UTC, currently UTC+00:00. This country spans multiple time zones. The clock above shows the primary time zone, so local time elsewhere in Spain may differ. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Spain is Madrid. Spain sits in Europe, specifically the Southern Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 40.00000000, -4.00000000. Traffic in Spain drives on the right. Languages recorded for Spain: Spanish.

Spain shares a land border with 5 countries: Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.