Andalucía led Spain’s tourist dwelling count as Canarias led the housing share

The two rankings use different denominators

Andalucía's 90,649 dwellings were 1.94% of its housing stock. Canarias had about half as many dwellings but a 4.44% share. The count measures the size of the listings market. The share compares that market with the census housing denominator. Source 1 Source 2

One property can represent several bed places

INE counted 21,304 tourist dwellings and 134,282 bed places in the Balearics. Its separate capacity measure comes to 6.30 bed places per dwelling. Canarias recorded 4.16. Bed places are offered capacity and describe a different unit from dwellings. Source 1

Same-month snapshots account for the survey calendar

The national count fell from 381,837 in May 2025 to 341,001 in May 2026, down about 10.7%. The intervening November count was 329,764. INE takes two snapshots a year and chooses dates ahead of the main booking seasons. Source 1 Source 3

What the listing screen can identify

INE gathers listings from three major platforms and screens them against criteria for each autonomous community. It also checks for duplicate dwellings across platforms. Actual occupied nights and booked revenue require separate measures. Source 3

Sources

• INE table 39364, tourist dwelling counts and capacity
• INE table 39365, tourist dwellings as a share of census housing
• INE experimental tourist dwelling methodology
• Natural Earth representative city coordinates