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Spain: public holidays by region

17 regions and a page for the dates that apply nationwide. Pick one for its public holidays, working days and long weekends in 2026.

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Working days by region

Working days in each year of the window, and the public holidays that fall on a weekday in 2026. Each year links to that year's page.

Region202620272028Weekday holidays 2026
Spain (nationwide) 254254251 7
Andalusia 251251249 10
Aragon 250251249 11
Asturias 250251249 11
Balearic Islands 251251249 10
Basque Country 251251249 10
Canary Islands 252252249 9
Cantabria 250251249 11
Castile and León 250251249 11
Castilla–La Mancha 250251249 11
Catalonia 251252249 10
Extremadura 250251249 11
Galicia 251251249 10
La Rioja 250251249 11
Community of Madrid 251251249 10
Region of Murcia 250251249 11
Navarre 250251249 11
Valencian Community 250252249 11

Holidays in every region

Tools for Spain

About public holidays in Spain

Spain does not publish one holiday list for the whole country. The Workers' Statute (Estatuto de los Trabajadores), in article 37.2, caps paid public holidays at fourteen a year, and two of those fourteen are local. That leaves twelve days that the central government and the seventeen autonomous communities share out between them, and every community therefore ends up with a calendar of its own.

The national government sets the frame. Royal Decree 2001/1983 lists the national holidays and divides them in two groups: some cannot be replaced, such as New Year's Day, Good Friday, 1 May, 12 October and Christmas Day, while for others a community may keep the day or put one of its own tradition in its place. A community may also swap the Monday after a national holiday that falls on a Sunday for a day it prefers. Each autumn the Directorate-General for Labour publishes the result in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE), a table showing every community, so the calendar for a year is fixed only once that resolution appears. The one for 2027 was issued on 8 October 2026 and printed on 13 October.

The communities use their powers differently. Almost all keep Maundy Thursday, but a few use the slot for Easter Monday instead or in addition, and a regional day such as Andalusia Day or Asturias Day is added by each community in its own way. Some move a Sunday holiday to the Monday, which is why 2 November and 7 December 2026, or 16 August 2027, are days off in some communities and ordinary working days in others.

For that reason the national page for Spain counts only the days that every community observes. In 2026 there are eight: 1 January, 6 January, 3 April, 1 May, 15 August, 12 October, 8 December and 25 December. In 2027 there are nine, because 1 November and 6 December fall on weekdays. A worker's real calendar needs a regional page, which adds the community's own days and the Monday substitutions. The municipal holidays, two per town, are published locally and appear in no page of this site.

The Spain (nationwide) page counts only the dates that apply in every region.

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