El Gordo Navidad Prizes

El Gordo Navidad offers prizes across 172 different series, meaning that the number combinations printed on tickets are repeated 172 times. While El Gordo Navidad prizes were once tax-free, the Spanish government levies a 20 percent lottery tax on winnings worth €40,000 or more.

Here’s a sample main prize breakdown for each of the 172 series. Players often purchase a decimo (tenth) of a full ticket (called a billete), so the money often gets shared between a number of people who have gone in together on a billete:

First Prize (El Gordo) - one prize of €4,000,000
Second Prize (Segundo Premio) - one prize of €1,250,000
Third Prize (Tercer Premio) - one prize of €500,000
Fourth Prize (Cuarto Premio) - two prizes of €200,000
Fifth Prize (Quinto Premio) - eight prizes of €60,000
Sixth Prize (La Pedrea) - 1,794 prizes of €1,000

Other prizes in a series are awarded as approximation prizes, meaning that the numbers on a person’s ticket closely match the winning number drawn for a specific prize. For example, a player can win an approximation prize for holding a ticket that is one number below or above the winning number in a prize tier. If the winning ticket for El Gordo was 45678, then you would win an approximation prize of €20,000 if your ticket number was 45677 or 45679. Two such prizes are available in each series. Having a ticket number in the same range as the winning number in a given tier can also net you a tidy sum. For example, if the second prize was 34567, all tickets with numbers between 34500 and 34599 would win €1,000 per billete.

Here's how it works:

Two prizes of €20,000 for tickets that match the two numbers immediately before and after the number drawn for El Gordo
Two prizes of €12,500 for tickets that match the two numbers immediately before and after the number drawn for the Second Prize
Two prizes of €9,600 for tickets that match the two numbers immediately before and after the number drawn for the Third Prize
99 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that have the same first three numbers of the winning El Gordo ticket
99 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that have the same first three numbers of the winning Second Prize ticket
99 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that have the same first three numbers of the winning Third Prize ticket
198 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that have the same first three numbers of the two winning Fourth Prize tickets
999 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that match the last two numbers of the winning El Gordo ticket
999 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that match the last two numbers of the winning Second Prize ticket
999 prizes of €1,000 for the tickets that match the last two numbers of the winning Third Prize ticket
9,999 prizes of €200 for the tickets that match the final number of the winning El Gordo ticket

All of this adds up to €14 million and 15,304 prizes per series - that's €2.4 billion in prize money in total! Why not check out the El Gordo Navidad Results to see what numbers have come up in previous draws.