A stall two metres by one on the roadway of Calle Ribera de Curtidores pays the city €271.20 a year. That is the easy part to find out. Getting the stall is another matter: across the 41 municipal bulletin documents that hand out the district's pitches, from 2007 to 2026, El Rastro does not declare a single vacancy. Here is the fee worked out, street by street, and what the documents say about how you apply.
Fiscal ordinance · fee by meter and bandThe fee on this page is what somebody who already holds the authorisation pays. So the first question is whether you can come to hold one at all. The municipal documents answer three things, and not one of them is a straight yes.
The city grants it, not us. These are the steps the municipal documents put in writing, and the one anybody can take without holding a stall.
Epígrafe D, Grupo 5.º, "Puestos en la Zona del Rastro". Amounts in euros, 2026 edition of the fiscal ordinances.
| Item | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per m² or part of one, monthly | €11.30 | €8.50 | €7.03 |
| For each m² over 2 m², monthly | €22.75 | €16.92 | €14.06 |
| Display in front of your own shop, no selling, per m² monthly | €4.35 | €3.77 | €3.18 |
| Occasional stall, four days a year at most, per m² per day | €2.51 in all three bands | ||
A year, which is what the licence holder ends up paying. The sizes are the ones set by article 19 of the Rastro ordinance: one to three meters long, and one or two deep depending on what the street allows.
| Stall | Meters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1x1 | 1 m² | €135.60 | €102.00 | €84.36 |
| 2x1 o 1x2 | 2 m² | €271.20 | €204.00 | €168.72 |
| 3x1 | 3 m² | €544.20 | €407.04 | €337.44 |
| 2x2 | 4 m² | €817.20 | €610.08 | €506.16 |
| 3x2 | 6 m² | €1,363.20 | €1,016.16 | €843.60 |
The market opens on Sundays and public holidays, 9am to 3pm, but the fee accrues every month of the year. A 2x1 in band 1 is €271.20 a year: spread over the 52 Sundays a year has, not counting the holidays it also opens on, that is €5.22 a Sunday.
The same amounts from the ordinance, applied. Pick a street band and a stall size.
It is not a flat price per square meter. The ordinance charges the base rate for the first two meters and a second rate, twice as dear, for every meter beyond that.
An example, a 3x2 in band 1. That is 6 m². The first two pay €11.30 each per month: €22.60. The 4 over that pay €22.75 each per month: €91.00. Total €113.60 a month, €1,363.20 a year.
The fiscal ordinance splits El Rastro street by street, and almost always in sections. The stalls are the ones in the city register.
| Street | Band | Stalls | A 2x1 a year | What the ordinance says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calle Ribera de Curtidores | 1.ª y 2.ª | 651 | €271.20 o €204.00 | Primera categoría en la calzada, segunda en las aceras. |
| Plaza Cascorro | 1.ª y 2.ª | 422 | €271.20 o €204.00 | Primera en la calzada, entre San Millán y Ribera de Curtidores y entre Embajadores y la esquina con Encomienda. Segunda en las aceras. |
| Ronda de Toledo | 1.ª | 111 | €271.20 | 193 metros lineales desde el Colegio Público Santa María, acera de los impares. |
| Calle Maldonadas | 1.ª | 34 | €271.20 | Solo la acera de los impares. |
| Plaza Campillo del Mundo Nuevo | 2.ª | 342 | €204.00 | Entera. |
| Plaza General Vara del Rey | 2.ª | 258 | €204.00 | Entera. |
| Calle Carlos Arniches | 2.ª | 87 | €204.00 | Entera. |
| Calle San Cayetano | 2.ª | 45 | €204.00 | Desde el número 4 hasta Ribera de Curtidores. |
| Calle Amazonas | 2.ª | 42 | €204.00 | Entera. |
| Calle Mira el Sol | 2.ª | 34 | €204.00 | Entre la plaza del Campillo del Mundo Nuevo y Ribera de Curtidores. |
| Calle Fray Ceferino González | 2.ª | 17 | €204.00 | Hasta los números 9 y 10, ambos inclusive. |
| Calle Mira el Río Baja | 3.ª | 48 | €168.72 | Entera. |
| Calle Carnero | 3.ª | 26 | €168.72 | Entre Ribera de Curtidores y Mira el Río Baja. |
| Callejón del Mellizo | 3.ª | 22 | €168.72 | Entera. |
| Calle Rodrigo de Guevara | 3.ª | 12 | €168.72 | Entera. |
| Calle Mira el Río Alta | 3.ª | 8 | €168.72 | Entre Carlos Arniches y Bastero. |
The register authorizes 24 stalls on Calle del Casino and Calle de Embajadores, and neither appears in any of the three bands of Grupo 5.º. Embajadores is named there only as the boundary of Plaza de Cascorro, not as a street of the zone. They are 1.1% of the market's stalls and we have not found what rate they are charged at. The discrepancy is logged in findings. The three bands of Grupo 5.º are not the Street Fee Index, which grades the same streets 1 to 9 for other fees.
El Rastro has a group of its own in the ordinance. The neighboring groups show what that means.
Any other street market in Madrid pays, under Grupo 3.º, €0.24 per square meter per day. A 2 m² stall is €0.48 a day. It would take 565 market days to reach the €271.20 that same stall pays in a year on the roadway of El Rastro.
The Christmas market on Plaza Mayor, Grupo 4.º, pays €24.27 per square meter for the whole authorized period, and €145.62 for each tree-selling module.
Source: Ordenanzas Fiscales y Precios Públicos Municipales, 2026 edition, the fiscal ordinance on the fee for private use of local public space, Epígrafe D, Grupo 5.º. Checked on August 23, 2026.
The rates were compared line by line with the 2024 edition and are identical, so they are in force. The annual fees on this page are copied from nowhere: they are computed here from those rates.
Two warnings. The fee accrues monthly, all twelve months, even though the market only opens on Sundays and public holidays. And Ribera de Curtidores and Cascorro are split between band 1 and band 2 depending on roadway or sidewalk, a distinction the stall register does not record, so on those two streets only a range can be given.