Cafeography
Terrasses · Barcelona

Café Terraces in Barcelona

Tables outside on Sants side streets, the Poblenou grid and the lanes of Gràcia.

Photo: Huy Phan, Pexels License

A terrassa (terrace) is the set of tables a bar is licensed to put on the pavement, a square or the roadway. Barcelona had 6,899 active terrace licenses in 2025, nearly 400 more than in 2022 and about one for every 250 residents. More than 80% have four tables or fewer, according to the Barcelona Restaurant Association.1

The Eixample district holds about a third, 2,296, followed by Sant Martí with 1,096 and Sants-Montjuïc with 678, while Gràcia, for all its squares, has the fewest of the ten districts: 244.1 New licenses are hard to get in the center. From 2022 to 2025 the city granted 1,192 and refused 1,117, and in the Eixample refusals outnumbered approvals by more than two to one.1

Local tip: Between November and April, ask for a table near a heater before you sit: since 1 January 2025 only electric heaters are allowed, and only in those months.5

Where these cafés are: Sants & Hostafrancs (18), Poblenou (15), Sagrada Família & Fort Pienc (15), Gràcia (14), Eixample Dreta (13), Eixample Esquerra (9), El Raval (6), El Clot & Camp de l'Arpa (5), Les Corts (5), Barri Gòtic (5), Sant Antoni (4), El Born & Sant Pere (4), Sant Andreu & Nou Barris (3), Sarrià-Sant Gervasi (3), La Marina (3), Poble-sec & Montjuïc (3), Horta-Guinardó (2), Barceloneta (1).

At a glance

128Cafés listed
54With opening hours
05:00Earliest opening
01:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Como, from 05:00 (Daily 05:00–23:00).
  • Closes latest: Organic Ume, until 01:00 (Mon–Fri 11:00–23:00 · Sat–Sun 11:00–01:00).
  • Most common features: indoor seating (45%), wi-fi (23%), card payment (23%).
Eixample Esquerra

cafè Bar Stel

  • Carrer de Provença, 98
  • Mon–Fri 06:30–12:00, 13:00–18:30 · Sat 08:00–12:00
  • +34 686 60 20 79
MapIs this you?Report
Sagrada Família & Fort Pienc

El Sol

  • Carrer de Nàpols, 125
  • Mon–Fri 06:00–21:00 · Sat 07:00–21:00 · Sun 08:00–18:00
  • +34 932440867
MapIs this you?Report

Nothing matches those filters here. See all cafés in Barcelona.

Tables on the asphalt after 2020

During the pandemic the city let bars spread into the street. By December 2020 it had approved 3,129 applications, 962 of them from bars with no terrace before, adding 8,627 tables and 33,398 chairs. About 1,300 terraces sat on the roadway, in place of 4,100 parking spaces.2

Roadway terraces could stay indefinitely once they met a common design, a platform meant to replace the yellow concrete barriers.2 Not every street kept its extra tables: in 2022 the city refused to regularize 144 extensions in six saturated zones of the Eixample, among them Carrer de Muntaner and Avinguda de Gaudí.3

Winter tables and the heater ban

Sitting outside works for much of the year. In central Barcelona the mean daily high is 14.5 °C in January and 27.6 °C in August (1994–2020 records), and the city gets about 2,524 hours of sun a year, from 149 in January to 310 in July. October is the wettest month.4

Heating changed in 2025. A 2018 amendment to the terrace ordinance banned gas heaters from 1 January 2025; electric heaters are still allowed, up to 150 W/m² and only from 1 November to 30 April. In November 2024, 17% of the city's terraces still burned gas.5

Where the café terraces are

Taken together, the three Eixample areas have the most cafés with outdoor tables; of single neighborhoods, Sants leads, ahead of Poblenou and the Sagrada Família, with Gràcia close behind. In Sants the terraces line side streets: Cru Sants at Carrer de Canalejas 89 serves until 22:00 on weekdays, El teu moment at Carrer de Joan Güell 64 opens at 07:00 from Monday to Friday, and Casa Escarré is at Carrer de Vilardell 15.

In Poblenou, Flora is at Passeig de Pujades 21, Lulu La Douce on Avinguda d'Icària and ARTiSA at Carrer de Llull 82, open until 20:00 every day. In Gràcia, La Ikas at Carrer de la Perla 22 has outdoor seating and serves until 23:00, and Bykate is at Carrer de Còrsega 379. By the water, Bamboo is on the Passeig Marítim in Barceloneta, and demasie is on Plaça de Santa Maria in El Born.

Sources

  1. Barcelona has nearly 7,000 bar and restaurant terraces, up 6% compared to four years ago, Catalan News (May 26, 2026), accessed October 2026
  2. Barcelona guanya terrasses: les que ocupen la calçada es podran quedar indefinidament, 3Cat (December 1, 2020), accessed October 2026
  3. Barcelona perdrà prop de 170 terrasses ampliades per la pandèmia, Nació Digital (June 3, 2022), accessed October 2026
  4. Climate of Barcelona, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  5. Adiós a las estufas de gas en las terrazas: a partir de mañana estarán prohibidas en Barcelona, Ara (December 31, 2024), accessed October 2026
Keep exploring

Other ways to browse Barcelona

Cafè d'especialitat

Specialty coffee

30 cafés

Wi-Fi

139 cafés

Brunch

30 cafés
Forns i pastisseries

Bakery cafés

76 cafés
Obert fins tard

Open late

57 cafés

By area: Barri Gòtic El Born & Sant Pere Sant Antoni Eixample Esquerra Eixample Dreta Sagrada Família & Fort Pienc Gràcia Poblenou

FAQ

Terraces in Barcelona: questions

How many bar and café terraces are there in Barcelona?

Barcelona had 6,899 active terrace licenses in 2025, nearly 400 more than in 2022, or about one for every 250 residents. The Eixample district holds about a third of them, 2,296, and Gràcia the fewest of the ten districts, 244. More than 80% of Barcelona's terraces have four tables or fewer.

Are gas heaters allowed on terraces in Barcelona?

No. A 2018 amendment to Barcelona's terrace ordinance banned gas heaters from 1 January 2025. Electric heaters are still allowed, with a limit of 150 W/m², and only between 1 November and 30 April. In November 2024, 17% of the city's terraces were still using gas.

What happened to Barcelona's pandemic terrace extensions?

By December 2020 Barcelona had approved 3,129 terrace applications, adding 8,627 tables, and about 1,300 terraces occupied the roadway in place of 4,100 parking spaces. Roadway terraces could stay if they adopted a common platform design. In 2022 the city refused to regularize 144 extensions in six saturated Eixample zones, including Carrer de Muntaner.

For café owners

Your café deserves better than a pin someone else dropped

Free listings are free for good. A featured page gives you photos, a menu and your own URL, in your café's own design, for less than a coffee a day.

Get listed, free See a page in its own design