Padró Girona: registering at the address where you live

Plaça del Vi, and six neighbourhood offices

The padró municipal d’habitants (padrón, in Spanish) is the register a town hall keeps of its residents. In Girona the Ajuntament (Ayuntamiento) keeps it at its Oficines d’Assistència en Matèria de Registre, the OAMR; none of the police addresses on this site deals with it, yet your entry is the everyday record of where you live.

The main OAMR is in the town hall, Plaça del Vi 1, in the Barri Vell (972 419 010). For 2026 the Ajuntament gives its hours as Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 18:00, Friday 8:30 to 15:00 and Saturday 9:00 to 14:00, shorter from 15 June to 15 September; afternoons and Saturdays are for appointments only.

Six more OAMR offices work in civic centres and municipal buildings, by appointment only, on set days, and close in August and over Christmas. The days below are those outside summer.

• Santa Eugènia: Centre Cívic Santa Eugènia, c/ Santa Eugènia 146 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
• Sant Narcís: Servei Municipal d’Ocupació, c/ Narcís Xifra i Masmitjà 43 (Tuesday, Thursday)
• Palau – Montilivi: Centre Cívic Pla de Palau, c/ Saragossa 27 (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)
• Pont Major: Centre Cívic Pont Major, c/ Pont Major 67-73 (Friday)
• Taialà – Germans Sàbat: Centre Cívic Ter, c/ Can Sunyer 46 (Tuesday)
• Vila-roja: Centre Cívic Onyar, c/ Camp de la Plana 13 (Friday, closed in summer)

Booking: cita prèvia, or online

The town hall recommends an appointment for padró procedures: without one, service is limited and people who booked go first. Book online at citaprevia.ubintia.com/girona, also reachable through the Ubime app, or by phone on 972 419 010, Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 15:00. In the booking system, a first registration or a move is “Padró d’habitants (alta o canvi de domicili)”, and papers proving your registration are under “Certificats i volants de padró”. The booking note asks you to have every document ready before you book.

With idCAT Mòbil, a digital certificate or Cl@ve, the seu electrònica takes a first registration for people arriving from another municipality or country, a change of address, the renewal and the certificates. The registration form itself, the full padronal, must be signed as a PDF with a digital certificate: idCAT Mòbil identifies you but cannot sign. With no digital ID yet, note that the Subdelegación del Gobierno’s registry office lists Cl@ve registration and the FNMT digital certificate among its services, by appointment.

The papers the Ajuntament lists

In our words, from the Ajuntament’s own pages. Documents must be in Catalan or Spanish, or come with a translation by a consulate or a sworn translator; photos and screenshots of documents are refused.

• The full padronal (registration form), filled in in capitals and signed, with the details of every person being registered and the municipality or country you are arriving from
• For each person: Europeans, the NIE on the EU registration certificate with an ID card or passport in force; others, a TIE in force or, failing that, a passport in force
• Owners: the title deed or purchase contract, unless you are the holder on the IBI (property tax) receipt, which the Ajuntament checks itself
• Tenants: the rental contract for a main home, signed by everyone named in it, and the last rent receipt; tourist or temporary contracts of under six months are refused
• Living in someone else’s home: the “Autorització per empadronament en habitatge aliè” signed by an adult registered there, with their ID and their deed or contract
• Children: the Llibre de Família or a birth certificate, and both parents’ signatures or the documents that stand in for one

After you apply, and every few years

Registration is not automatic: the town hall checks the application and decides, and its page gives three months as the time limit when you register for the first time or move house within Girona. Every padró procedure is free. Registering in Girona cancels any earlier entry in another municipality or a consular register, and the seu asks that you live in Girona for most of the year.

Non-EU residents without long-term residence renew their padró entry every two years; if they do not, the entry lapses and they are removed. EU and EEA citizens holding the green certificate, and long-term residents, confirm their residence instead, after two or five years depending on their case, when the town hall asks them by SMS and by letter.

Volant or certificat

Each record comes as a volant, the informative version that serves most purposes, or a certificat, which the Ajuntament says is needed by courts, notaries, embassies and consulates, the tax office, and for Erasmus and university grants, among others. Once registered, you can download your own individual volant from “El meu espai” on the Catalan administration’s AOC site; a certificat or a historical volant is requested through an OAMR or the seu. According to the same page, applications for residence and work permits need no padró document at all, because the offices concerned obtain it themselves.

Help for newcomers, and the towns next door

Through the town hall you can join the Servei de Primera Acollida, Catalonia’s first-reception programme: an interview, a welcome session, then modules on Catalan and Spanish, the labour market and Catalan society. Completing it leads to the certificat d’acollida, which the Generalitat describes as useful in immigration procedures such as arrelament social and renewals; in Girona you apply for it at an OAMR or on the seu. For help with settling-in steps, the Ajuntament’s newcomer page points to its social services, by appointment, at the social centre covering your padró address.

For languages, CNL de Girona, at C. dels Ciutadans 18, runs Catalan courses for adults all year, and the public adult-education centres of Girona and Salt teach Spanish and Catalan in courses the town hall’s leaflet describes as free. In Salt, the Àrea d’Integració i Convivència at Mas Mota runs the welcome programme and offers legal advice on immigration matters.

Each municipality keeps its own padró, so a flat across the boundary is registered there. In Salt, the Servei d’Atenció a la Ciutadania is at Plaça del President Lluís Companys 1 (972 24 91 91), preferably by appointment; we found no Salt page listing the papers for registering, so ask there before you go. Sarrià de Ter, Quart and the towns of the coast each have their own town hall.