CaminantesCash on the Camino: the longest stretch without a cash machine, on every route
By August Frederik Kramer · Last updated 29 October 2026
Which route are you walking?
Longest stretch with no cash machine on the Camino Francés
39.8 km
From Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún. Nights on the way: 1.
Carry €90 to €130 in cash: 2 days at a normal budget.
The longest stretches
- Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún: 39.8 km, days 18 to 19
- Sahagún to Mansilla de las Mulas: 36.8 km, days 20 to 21
- Villafranca Montes de Oca to Burgos: 34.1 km, days 12 to 13
- Vega de Valcarce to Triacastela: 32.5 km, days 29 to 30
- Rabanal del Camino to Ponferrada: 30.5 km, days 26 to 27
432 cash machines and bank branches within 600 m of this route.
Each bar is a stretch between cash machines, as wide and as tall as it is long. Gold is the longest.
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On the Camino Francés the longest stretch without a cash machine or a bank is 39.8 km, from Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún. Leave Carrión de los Condes with €90 to €130 in cash: 2 days at a normal budget. Pick your route to see its longest stretch.
How far apart the cash machines are
The Camino Francés has 432 cash machines and bank branches within 600 m of the route, more than any other, and still a stretch of 39.8 km with none: Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún. On the other routes we can measure, the longest stretch is 59.8 km on the Camino Primitivo, 59.0 km on the Camino del Norte, 51.8 km on the Camino Finisterre, 48.3 km on the Camino Inglés, 36.2 km on the Camino Invierno, 33.1 km on the Camino Portugués and 28.3 km on the Camino Lebaniego. The longest of all is on the Camino Primitivo: 59.8 km from Tineo to Grandas de Salime, with 3 nights on the way.
How much cash to carry
Count the nights between one machine and the next and carry a day more than that, because you pay for every bed and meal before you reach it. Our cost guide puts a normal day at €45 to €65. From Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún that is €90 to €130. On the Camino Primitivo, leaving Tineo, it is €180 to €260. Top up whenever you pass a machine before a long stretch, not after it.
Where the map is too thin to measure
Cash machines are mapped by volunteers in OpenStreetMap, and some routes are mapped too thinly to trust their gaps. We only measure a route if every stage end that OpenStreetMap calls a town has a cash machine or a bank within 3.5 km. Vía de la Plata and Camino Mozárabe fail that test, so they are not in the tool. We count every bank branch, because OpenStreetMap marks a cash machine at only some of them; count only the marked ones and the Francés stretch grows to 46.0 km.
Cash machines and bank branches mapped in OpenStreetMap on 29 October 2026, within 600 m of our GPS track for each route. Distances, days and nights are from our own stage plan, the one the route pages print. The daily budget is our cost guide’s normal one.
Common questions
Do you need cash on the Camino de Santiago?
Carry some. On the Camino Francés the longest stretch without a cash machine or a bank is 39.8 km, from Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún, and on the Camino Primitivo it is 59.8 km, from Tineo to Grandas de Salime.
How much cash should I carry on the Camino Francés?
Enough to reach the next machine. For the longest stretch, Carrión de los Condes to Sahagún, that is €90 to €130 at the cost guide’s normal €45 to €65 a day.
Where is the longest stretch without an ATM on the Camino?
Of the routes we can measure, on the Camino Primitivo: 59.8 km from Tineo to Grandas de Salime, with 3 nights on the way.
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