🇪🇸 Spain passport photo size
26 × 32 mm, head 14.5–17.5 mm from chin to crown, on a uniform, plain white background.
- Photo size
- 26 × 32 mm 1.02 × 1.26 in
- Head height
- 14.5–17.5 mm 45–55% of the height
- Background
- Uniform, plain white
- At 300 DPI
- 307 × 378 px 614 × 756 at 600 DPI
Open a photo
It stays on this device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account, watermark or limit.
JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC. Drag a file here if you prefer.
Drag the blue line to the top of your hair, the red line to the bottom of your chin, and the green line to the centre of your face. The crop follows.
Every file carries its real print size, so a photo lab lays it out at the right dimensions instead of guessing 72 DPI.
The requirements in full
| Photo size | 26 × 32 mm (1.02 × 1.26 in) |
|---|---|
| Head height | 14.5–17.5 mm chin to crown, 45–55% of the photo height |
| Background | Uniform, plain white |
| Pixels | 307 × 378 at 300 DPI · 614 × 756 at 600 DPI |
| Expression | Neutral, mouth closed |
| Glasses | Allowed if there is no glare and the frames do not cover your eyes |
| How recent | Less than 6 months old |
| How many | 2 identical photos |
| Edited photos | No explicit prohibition found, but the photo must be a true likeness. |
| Home-printed photos | Accepted, if printed at the right physical size on photo paper. |
Photographed head-on with no dark lenses and nothing that prevents identification. Babies must be photographed alone - the hands of whoever is holding them must not appear.
Where the published rules run out
Spain has two official sources that disagree. The law says 32 x 26 mm. A consular instruction sheet says 30-40 mm wide with the head outline filling half the photo, which is where the head height used here comes from. The widely-repeated "Spain = 35 x 45 mm" appears in neither. The legal figure is used here; confirm with the office you are applying to.
Printing it
How many 26 × 32 mm photos fit on each paper size, at true size.
| Paper | Photos | Layout | Edge to edge? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 × 6 in | 15 | 5 × 3 (turned) | 0.06 in margin |
| 3.5 × 5 in | 9 | 3 × 3 | 0.17 in margin |
| 5 × 7 in | 20 | 4 × 5 | 0.25 in margin |
| A4 | 72 | 8 × 9 | yes — watch the trim |
| US Letter | 64 | 8 × 8 | 0.16 in margin |
Replace the background only if you have to
No explicit ban was found for this document, but every authority wants a true likeness. A photo taken against a plain wall is always the safer submission.