Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Madrid
Madrid
Madrid · Madrid region · 605 km²
What rustic land in Madrid allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1997. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 424 wells and boreholes in Madrid. Half of the 416 with a depth found water at 8–125 m. 65 springs are recorded.
Ground: 79% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- 6 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 2,068 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
- 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
- 36% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 10% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Not a radon zone.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 369 mm a year (1971–2000), about 349 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 34.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 46 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Alcobendas · Pozuelo de Alarcón · Coslada · Paracuellos de Jarama · San Sebastián de los Reyes · Tres Cantos · San Fernando de Henares · Majadahonda
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.