How to fax to Spain from the US

Nine digits, and no 0 to drop

UK, French and German numbers have a leading 0 that disappears after the country code. Spanish numbers don’t: the plan has no national prefix. Add a 0 out of habit and you break the number, because Spain keeps the 0 for short public-service codes and the 00 international prefix. 091 alone is the National Police.

Reading the first digits

Unlike a US number, a Spanish number shows its type. A regular number tied to a province starts with 9 or 8, and its second digit is never 0. A second digit of 0 marks a special-tariff number, and of those, FaxTonic accepts only 800 and 900.

The 902 on the letterhead

A 902 number can pass for a company’s main line. Spain’s 2021 numbering guide says companies and other organizations use 901 and 902 widely, and that such “smart numbers” can redirect calls to ordinary lines. So a 902 tells you nothing about a fax line, and FaxTonic refuses it.

Ask the recipient for the fax line’s own number: nine digits with a province code.

An older 902 may also be out of date: an April 2026 Spanish resolution limits customer-service lines at companies under the 2025 customer-service law to 800, 900, geographic and short numbers, with an exception for smaller energy and phone retailers.

A burofax isn’t a fax

If someone in Spain asks for a burofax, a fax isn’t what they asked for, despite the name. A burofax is a service of Correos, Spain’s postal operator, which prints your document and delivers it by hand against a signature. Correos says this lets you show what you sent, when, and who received it. It can also certify the exact content, which its burofax page lists as an additional service.

A FaxTonic fax does none of that. The status page only records that the receiving machine confirmed the fax, and we don’t issue a transmission report. For a burofax, go to Correos. It says Mi Oficina, its online service, works from anywhere, but check that it suits you from the US.

One country code, two clocks

The Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla all use +34, at the same price as Madrid. The first digits show where a fax is going:

• Balearic Islands: 971 or 871.
• Canary Islands: 922, 822, 928 or 828.
• Ceuta: 956, shared with Cádiz. Melilla: 952, shared with Málaga.

Andorra (+376) and Gibraltar (+350) have their own country codes, and FaxTonic doesn’t send to either.

Spain also has two official times: the Canary Islands stay one hour behind the mainland and the Balearics. The mainland is 6 hours ahead of US Eastern time and 9 ahead of Pacific; the Canaries are 5 and 8 ahead. That matters if you call an office in Las Palmas to confirm a number.

Each gap shrinks by an hour for a few weeks a year: Spain changes its clocks on the last Sundays of March and October, the US on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November.

What a page costs, and a cover in Spanish

A page to Spain costs $2.69, more than our other destinations, because Spanish landlines cost more to reach. Time of day and call length don’t change it, and the cover page is free.

Send from the Spanish app and the cover prints in Spanish, with prices in euros, not dollars.

FaxTonic only sends, so nobody in Spain can fax a reply to the US number in each page’s header. If you want an answer, give an email address, phone number or mailing address.

How to fax Spain with FaxTonic

1. Get your document ready as PDF, JPEG, and PNG, up to 20 pages with the cover. An A4 page shrinks slightly to fit US Letter.
2. Open FaxTonic, or the Spanish app for a Spanish cover. Add your file and put your name on the cover.
3. Choose Spain and type the nine digits, with no 0, 011 or extension.
4. At the review step, compare the +34 number with your source, digit by digit. Then look over the total and pay by card.
5. Follow the status page: sending, then delivered or failed. If it fails, the “What to check” box gives the reason when the carrier supplied one.

Play the video: How to Send a One-Time Fax Without Signing Up for Anything

A fax that can’t be delivered is refunded automatically. We hold back a fee of $0.30 + 2.9% and return the rest, or we return everything if our fax provider refused the fax when we submitted it. A delivered fax isn’t refunded, even to a wrong number. See the refund policy.