Road number colours Spain

Last updated 14-8-2016

Main roads

Motorways (Autopista) and expressways (Autovía) have blue signs and appear in white text in blue rectangles.

Local autovías tend to have provincial abbreviations. Sections that do not have Autovía standard appear in red shields instead of blue.

Non-motorways generally have white signs.

National roads appear in white on red.

Regional roads (subordinate to comunidades) often have two sub classes, with the main ones appearing in black on orange and the rest in white on green. These also contain the old carreteras comarcales from the 1941 system, some of which still exist, mostly in Cataluña (to be distinguished from the lower C-numbers which appear in red), Extremadura and the Balearic and Canary islands.

Provincial roads usually have yellow shields with black text.

There are many exceptions. One of the most important is that in Andalucia, main comunal roads have green instead of orange numbers and secondary comunal roads have yellow instead of green shields.

In Galicia, some expressways do not only have green numbers but also green signs.

For simplicity, in the table below, in some cases comunal roads appear in the provincial columns, if the importance of the roads in question is similar to provincial roads elsewhere, and the other way round, which can be assumed to be expressed by the colours used.

Similarly, 2-digit C roads in Cataluña could be classified as main comunidad roads, but because of their red shields, they appear one column further left.

Comunidad

Andalucia

Aragon

Asturias

Cantabria

Castilla - La Mancha

Castilla y León

Cataluña

Comunidad Valenciana

Extremadura

Galicia

Islas Baleares

Islas Canarias

La Rioja

Madrid

Murcia

Navarra

Pais Vasco

African exclaves

Province code

Provincia

Almería

Cádiz

Córdoba

Granada

Huelva

Jaén

Málaga

Sevilla

Huesca

Teruel

Zaragoza

formerly Oviedo

Santander

Albacete

Ciudad Real

Cuenca

Guadalajara

Toledo

Ávila

Burgos

León

Palencia

Salamanca

Segovia

Soria

Valladolid

Zamora

Barcelona

Girona

Lleida

Tarragona

Alicante

Castelló

Valencia

Badajoz

Cáceres

A Coruña

Lugo

Ourense

Pontevedra

Islas Baleares

Las Palmas

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Logroño

Pamplona

Álava

Guipúzcoa

Vizcaya

Melilla

Island

(Orense)

Mallorca

Menorca

Ibiza

Gran Canaria

Fuerteventura

Lanzarote

Tenerife

La Gomera

La Palma

El Hierro

(Bilbao)

Autovía

Other (local) main road

AL-[0-9]<2>

CA-[0-9]<2>

CO-[0-9]<2>

H-[0-9]<2>

J-[0-9]<2>

MA-[0-9]<2>

SE-[0-9]<2>

TE-[0-9]<2>

Z-[0-9]<2>

AS-I<1,2>; O-1[0-9]

S-[0-9]<2>

CM-[0-9]<2>

BU-[0-9]<2>

LE-[0-9]<2>

SA-[0-9]<2>

SG-[0-9]<2>

SO-[0-9]<2>

VA-[0-9]<2>

B-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

C-[0-9]<2>

LL-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

T-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

V-[0-9]<2>

EX-A2; BA-[0-9]<2>

EX-A1

AG-[0-9]<2>; SC-[0-9]<2>

[AC]G-[0-9]<2>; CRG-[0-9]<2>; LU-[0-9]<2>

OU-[0-9]<2>{D}

PO-[0-9]<2>

Ma-[0-9]<1,2>; PM-[0-9]<1,2>

E-[0-9]<2>

GC-[0-9]<1,2>

FV-[1-9]

LZ-[1-9]

TF-[125]

LO-[0-9]<2>

M-[0-9]<2>

MU-[0-9]<2>

NA-[0-9]<2>

Main comunidad

A-[0-9]<3>

A-[12][0-9]<2>

AS-[0-9]<1-3>

CA-1[0-9]<2>

CM-[0-9]<3>

CL-[0-9]<3>

CV-[0-9]<2>

EX-1[0-9]<2>

AC-[0-9]<3>

LU-[0-9]<3>

O[RU]-[0-9]<3>

PO-5[0-9]<2>

Ma-[0-9]<1,2>

LP-[1-9]

HI-[1-9]

LR-1[0-9]<2>

M-[1-7][0-9]<2>

MU-[0-9]<3>

NA-[0-9]<3>

A-[0-9]<3>

GI-[0-9]<3>

BI-6[0-9]<2>

Secondary comunidad

Comarcal

A-[0-9]<4>

A-1[0-9]<3>

AS-2[0-9]<2>

CA-2[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<3,4>

CM-[0-9]<4>

C-[0-9]<3,4>

EX-2[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<3,4>

AC-[0-9]<3>

LU-[0-9]<3>

C-[0-9]<3>

C-[0-9]<3>; PO-[0-9]<3>

Me-[0-9]<1-2>;RC2

C-73[13]

C-81[0-9]; GC-[0-9]<2>0

FV-[0-9]<2>

LZ-[0-9]<2>

TF-[0-9]<2>

LP-[0-9]<2,3>

HI-[0-9]<2>

LR-2[0-9]<2>

C-[0-9]<3,4>;

RM-[A-F]-[0-9]<1,2>;MU-[0-9]<3>

A-2[0-9]<3>

GI-2[0-9]<3>

BI-2[0-9]<3>

Main provincial

AL-[0-9]<3,4>

CA-[0-9]<3,4>

CO-[0-9]<3,4>

GR-[0-9]<3,4>

HU-[0-9]<3,4>

JA-[0-9]<3,4>

MA-[0-9]<3,4>

SE-[0-9]<3,4>

A-2[0-9]<3>; HU-[0-9]<3>

A-2[0-9]<3>; TE-[0-9]<3,4>

A-2[0-9]<3>; CV-[0-9]<3>; Z-[0-9]<3>

AS-3[0-9]<2>

CA-[3-8][0-9]<2>; S-[0-9]<3,4>*

AB-[0-9]<3-4>

CR-[0-9]<3,4>

CU-[0-9]<3,4>

GU-[0-9]<3,4>

TO-[0-9]<3,4>

AV-[0-9]<3>

BU-[0-9]<3,4>

LE-[0-9]<3>

P[0-9]<3,4>

SA-[0-9]<3>

SG-[0-9]<3>

SO-[0-9]<3>

VA-[0-9]<3>

ZA-[0-9]<3>

B-[0-9]<3-4>{[A-Za-z]}

GI-[0-9]<3>

L-[0-9]<3>

T-[0-9]<3>

CV-[0-9]<3>; A-[0-9]<3> obsolete

CV-[0-9]<3>; CS-[0-9]<3> obsolete

CV-[0-9]<3>; V-[0-9]<3> obsolete

EX-[35][0-9]<2>; BA-[0-9]<3>

EX-[35][0-9]<2>; CC-[0-9]<3>

AC-[0-9]<3>

LU-[0-9]<3>

OU-[0-9]<4>

PO-[0-9]<3,4>

Ma-[0-9]<4>

Me-[0-9]<1-2>;RC1

PM-[0-9]<3>

GC-[0-9]<2>[1-9]

FV-[0-9]<3>

LZ-[0-9]<3>

TF-[0-9]<3>

TF-71[0-9]

TF-81[0-9]

TF-91[0-9]

LR-[34][0-9]<2>

M-[89][0-9]<2>

NA-[0-9]<4>

A-3[0-9]<3>

GI-3[0-9][0-9]0

BI-3[0-9]<3>

ML-[0-9]<3>

Secondary provincial

* = obsolete

AL-P-[0-9]<3,4>

CA-P-[0-9]<3,4>

CH-[0-9]; C[PV]-[0-9]<2,3>

{GR-}[NS][EO]-[0-9]<1,2>*; GR-V-[0-9]<4>

H[FV]-[0-9]<4>; H-[0-9]<4>*

J[FHMPV]-[0-9]<3,4>; J-[0-9]<3,4>*

H[FV]-[0-9]<4>; HU-V-[0-9]<4>

TE-V-[0-9]<1,4>; VF-TE-[0-9]<2>

CP-[0-9]<1,2>; Z-[AFPV]-[0-9]<3,4>)

(C[ELNPV]|G[IOT]|IA|LL|MI|S[IL]|PV|TI)-[0-9]<1,2>

S[PV]-[0-9]<4>; CM-[0-9]<2>/[0-9]<2>

CV-[AL]-[0-9]<1,3>; L-[0-9]; A-[0-9]<4>; ABR-0[1-7]

CR-P-[0-9]<3,4>

CU-V-[0-9]<4>

TO-[0-9]<4>-V; TO-V-[0-9]<3,4>

AV-{V}P-[0-9]<3>

BU-[PV]-[0-9]<4>

CV-[0-9]<3>/[0-9]<1,2>

PP-[0-9]<4>

DSA-[0-9]<3>; SA-C[MPU]-[0-9]<2,3>; SA-[LV]-[0-9]<2,4>

SG-[PV]-[0-9]<4>

SO-[PV]-[0-9]<4>

VP-[0-9]<4>; VA-V-[0-9]<4>

ZA-[LPV]-[0-9]<4>

B[PV]-[0-9]<4>

GI[PV]-[0-9]<4>

L[VP]-[0-9]<3,4>

T[PV]-[0-9]<4>

BA-{V-}[0-9]<4>

(CV|CC{-V})-[0-9]<1,3>{\.[0-9]}; CG-[0-9]

CP-[0-9]<3,4>; DP-[0-9]<4>

A92{N}

AL-[0-9]<2>

CA-[0-9]<2>

CO-[0-9]<2>

A-92

H-[0-9]<2>

J-[0-9]<2>

MA-[0-9]<2>

A92

SE-[0-9]<2>

TE-[0-9]<2>

Z-[0-9]<2>; ARA-A1

AS-I<1,2>; O-1[0-9]

S-[0-9]<2>

CM-[0-9]<2>

BU-[0-9]<2>

LE-[0-9]<2>

SA-[0-9]<2>

SO-[0-9]<2>

VA-[0-9]<2>

B-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

C-[0-9]<2>

LL-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

T-[0-9]<2>; C-[0-9]<2>

V-[0-9]<2>

EX-A2; BA-[0-9]<2>

EX-A1

CG-[0-9]<2>

AG-[0-9]<2>; SC-[0-9]<2>

[AC]G-[0-9]<2>; CRG-[0-9]<2>

OU-[0-9]<2>{D}

DP-[0-9]<4>

LU-P-[0-9]<4>

LU-V-[0-9]<4>

CV-[0-9]<3>; OUR-C[PUV]-[0-9]<1-3>

VG-[0-9]<2>

EP-[0-9]<4>

AG-[0-9]<2>; PO-[0-9]<2>

Ma-[0-9]<1,2>; PM-[0-9]<1,2>

GC-[0-9]<1,2>

FV-[1-9]

LZ-[1-9]

TF-[125]

LO-[0-9]<2>

M-[0-9]<2>

MU-[0-9]<2>; CT-[0-9]<2>; RM-[1-9]

PA-[0-9]<2>

BI-7[0-9]<2>

CP-[0-9]<4>; CF-[0-9]<3>

PMV-[0-9]<3>-[0-9]

Cf-[1-9];RM (Ronda de Mahon)

PM-V-[0-9]<3>-[0-9]

CI-[0-9]<1,2>-[0-9]<1,2>; (CV|HI|LP)-[0-9]<1,4>

HI-[0-9]<3>

LR-5[0-9]<2>

RM-[A-F]-[0-9]<1,2>; MU-[0-9]-(A|CR)

A-4[0-9]<3>

GI-3[0-9][0-9][1-9]

BI-4[0-9]<3>

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