Buy Tickets Now for the €2.59bn El Gordo de Navidad Draw

Christmas is on its way and that means we’re just a couple of months away from the El Gordo de Navidad draw. There’s an incredible €2.59 billion prize fund for this historic Spanish lottery draw (first held in 1812) that takes place on December 22.

You can buy tickets for the El Gordo de Navidad draw at Lottery24. Time therefore to tell you more about this lottery that is rather different from others you may play.

€4 million top prize

Tickets for the El Gordo de Navidad are sold in tenths. There are 185 million tenths available to be purchased this year which is five million more than in 2022. This means there will be 185 series each containing 100 numbers. Players buy tenths and if that number is the winner, they receive a tenth of the prize money.

The overall prize fund is up by €70 million so it looks like being a bumper year. Top prize this year is €4 million so winners will receive €400,000 each, not a bad way to begin Christmas.

Christmas in Spain wouldn’t be the same without the El Gordo de Navidad draw. People often say that Christmas seems to start earlier every year. That seems to be so in Spain with tickets for the Christmas Lottery being on sale since July.

Why do they start selling the tickets so early? Well, many Spaniards go on overseas holidays between July and September.

High demand

As soon as tickets go on sale in Spain, there is high demand for them. Anyone can buy tickets for the El Gordo de Navidad draw and tourists have been among the many making purchases.

Organisers say that 2% of tickets are sold in the summer. Tickets have been sold everywhere from Madrid to Andalusia and Barcelona to the Canary Islands. Those buying tickets in Madrid will hope that the city continues its good run in the draw. 81 times the winning number has been bought in Madrid with tickets purchased in Barcelona being the winner on 42 occasions.

Buy El Gordo de Navidad tickets from Lottery24.