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Padrón registration (empadronamiento) at Estepona Town Hall

Registering your address with the Ayuntamiento de Estepona (empadronamiento) on the municipal Padrón de Habitantes, and requesting the resulting certificate.

Why it matters
The padrón certificate is required for almost every other Spanish bureaucratic process: NIE/TIE applications and renewals, residency certificates, school enrollment, healthcare card (SIP), and many contracts.
When
Moving into a home in Estepona, or renewing/updating an existing padrón registration.
Official page
Delegación de Padrón de Habitantes
Last checked
15 Oct 2026

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Bring the original of your DNI, passport or NIE, and it must be in force (en vigor).

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