E-scooters in Estepona: Dott, the town’s 2026 bylaw, the Paseo Marítimo and old town, buses and Spain’s rules

Which e-scooter app works in Estepona?

This guide, like our map, covers shared e-scooters: the stand-up kind you unlock with an app and pay for by the minute, not mopeds or mobility scooters. In Estepona our map shows one operator, Dott.

At 14:57 local time on Sunday 1 November 2026 the map of Estepona showed 142 Dott scooters free to rent at that moment. That total takes in everything from west of the port east to Guadalmina, on the edge of Marbella’s San Pedro Alcántara. Minutes later, at 15:01, every Dott in that area stood in the town itself: none in El Padrón, at Selwo, in Cancelada or in Bel-Air.

The map shows where each scooter stands, but not Dott’s price, parking spots or no-ride areas, so the app has the final word.

Marbella and Málaga. At 14:57 our map showed no shared e-scooters elsewhere on the Costa del Sol, so a Dott is for getting around Estepona, not between towns.

Shops aren’t on our map. Estepona’s tourism office lists Eco&Bike among its bike-hire shops: it sells electric bikes and personal mobility vehicles and hires them out by the hour, its listing says (read on 1 November 2026).

How much does a Dott scooter cost in Estepona?

Dott publishes no price for Estepona: the app shows the unlock fee and the rate per minute before you unlock, and any passes on sale.

You pay until you end the ride in the app and get its confirmation: walk away without ending it and the meter runs on.

Signing up. You need a phone and a payment method, and you must be 18, the age Dott’s terms require, although Spanish law lets you ride from 15. You need no driving licence. New to shared scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter.

Estepona’s scooter bylaw, in force since April 2026

Estepona’s Ordenanza Reguladora de Circulación y uso de Vehículos de Movilidad Personal, its bylaw for e-scooters and other personal mobility vehicles (VMP), took effect on 8 April 2026. The Ayuntamiento, the town council, summarised it the day before as follows, naming no separate rules for rental scooters.

• Age and helmet. Riders must be over 16 and wear a certified helmet at all times.
• Where to ride. Never on the pavement: only on the road or in bike lanes, signalling with your arm if the scooter has no indicators. Pedestrian areas are closed to scooters.
• Speed. At most 25 km/h on streets with a pavement, 20 km/h on roads without one, and 10 km/h where signs say so.
• Signals and crossings. Obey signs, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings, and get off and walk the scooter across a crossing.
• One rider, no phone. One person per scooter, no phone or headphones while riding, and no alcohol or drugs.

The Ayuntamiento said the Policía Local, the town’s police, would fine riders who break it. Its summary also names the liability insurance owners have needed since 2 January 2026 and the manufacturer’s certificate: on a Dott, the operator is the owner. Dott’s terms for Spain (saved 24 October 2026) allow its e-scooters 20 km/h at most.

Can you ride on the Paseo Marítimo or in the old town?

No. The bylaw bans scooters from pedestrian areas, as Spain’s traffic rules do, the Ayuntamiento said. On 5 September 2025, as it began work on the bylaw, it said it had put up signs on the Paseo Marítimo and on the main shopping streets, Calle Terraza and Calle Real, because so many people walk there.

• The Paseo Marítimo. The seafront promenade is for walking: ride on the road instead, or push the scooter.
• The old town. Calle Terraza, which links Avenida Andalucía with Avenida España, runs through the historic heart of the town, the Ayuntamiento said in March 2024. Walk the old town’s pedestrian streets with the scooter, or end the ride outside them.
• The beaches. Spain’s Coastal Law bans unauthorised driving and parking of vehicles on beaches. In the centre that means Playa de La Rada and Playa del Cristo, the cove by the port.
• Bike lanes. The bylaw lets scooters use them; elsewhere, ride on the road.

Where to end a Dott ride

Dott’s terms for Spain tell you to park only in the parking areas the town designates, shown in the app, and elsewhere only where the law allows, without blocking entrances, pavements or traffic; the app may ask for a photo when you end the ride.

At 15:03 on 1 November Dott’s scooters stood from west of the port to the bus station: about 40 in the streets around the bullring, up from the port, and most of the others north and east of the old town.

Buses: around Estepona, to Marbella and Málaga

A Dott has to end its ride in Dott’s area, so it can’t go with you on a bus, and the A-7 and AP-7, the main roads along the coast, are closed to e-scooters. For Marbella or Málaga, take the bus.

• The bus station. Estepona’s bus station stands on Avenida Litoral, beside the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos; on 18 July 2014 the Ayuntamiento said it would open on 21 July, with bays for six buses. At 15:03 on 1 November 2026 nine Dott scooters stood beside it.
• Town buses. The Ayuntamiento said that Avanza would run the town’s three bus lines from 19 August 2024, among them line 2, west to Bermuda Beach by way of the hospital, and line 3, for the east of the town, every half hour. A trip then cost €0.70 with the Tarjeta Avanza Costa del Sol, a card sold at the bus station.
• Marbella and Málaga. Check Avanza’s interurban lines from the bus station, on its website or at its ticket office there: the Ayuntamiento said in August 2024 that the same card works on all of them.
• Your own scooter. Ask Avanza before you take one on board, even folded: its rules for luggage are its own.

Spain’s e-scooter rules for visitors

Spain’s rules changed on 1 October 2026 and apply in Estepona as everywhere else, alongside the town’s bylaw. On a rental, the operator handles registration and insurance.

A helmet has been compulsory for every e-scooter rider in Spain since 1 October 2026, on rental scooters too: €200, and the police may immobilise the scooter. Estepona’s bylaw requires one at all times as well, and Dott’s terms warn that its insurance may not cover head injuries if you ride without one, so pack your own.

Fines are halved if you pay within 20 days, and according to Spain’s traffic authority, the DGT, you lose no licence points on an e-scooter. The scooter’s lights must be on after dark, and from 1 October 2027 by day too.

Your own scooter must be registered with the DGT (since 30 January 2026, €8.67 and a label) and insured (since January 2026, under Ley 5/2025); one without a DGT certificate, registered as “Z000”, may be ridden only until 22 January 2027.

Did you know?

• A square where the buses stood. Until the summer of 2013 the interurban buses had a station on Avenida España. It was moved to make way for the Plaza ABC, a square of more than 2,000 m² with a sculpture by Santiago de Santiago honouring the newspaper ABC, and the new station on Avenida Litoral was to open in July 2014, the Ayuntamiento said that month.
• Calle Terraza on one level. In March 2024 the Ayuntamiento put out to tender a €2.4 million remodelling of Calle Terraza, about 600 m through the historic centre, as a single-level street giving priority to people on foot, to join it to the old town’s pedestrian streets.
• Dott’s one place on the Costa del Sol. On 31 October 2026 Dott’s locations page listed nine places in Spain: Estepona, Ibiza, La Manga, Lanzarote, Lorca, Murcia, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, South Tenerife and Tarragona.