Spain (nationwide) public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Spain (nationwide), the same as in 2025.

Each Spanish region sets part of its calendar every year, and some regions move a holiday that falls on a Sunday to the Monday; these counts follow the official calendar published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado. Every town also has two local holidays, which these counts do not include: a full year in any town has two working days fewer. These are the dates that apply in every region; a region's page gives its working days.

Public holidays in 2026

8 dates are counted as non-working in Spain (nationwide) in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 21 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Spain

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 3 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 10 October 2026 to Monday 12 October 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

Try any budget from 1 to 30 days in the leave planner

Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Spain (nationwide)

This page covers the days that are non-working in every Spanish autonomous community, and nothing more. Because the country has no single national calendar, a figure for Spain as a whole is a floor, not the number any employee actually experiences. Readers who want an accurate working-day count should open the page of their own region, listed on the Spain hub, where the regional additions and substitutions are included. The hub also explains the legal framework: the cap of fourteen holidays in article 37.2 of the Workers' Statute, the two local days per municipality, and the annual resolution of the Directorate-General for Labour in the BOE.

For 2026 the Resolution of 17 October 2025 shows eight days observed in all seventeen communities. They are New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), Good Friday (3 April), Labour Day (1 May), the Assumption (15 August, a Saturday), the National Day (12 October), the Immaculate Conception (8 December) and Christmas Day. Maundy Thursday, 2 April, is absent from the common list because two communities do not observe it, and 2 November and 7 December 2026 are holidays in some communities only.

The 2027 list, issued on 8 October 2026, has nine common days. Good Friday falls on 26 March, and All Saints' Day (1 November) and Constitution Day (6 December) are both Mondays, so they join the shared list. The Assumption falls on Sunday 15 August, and the communities that move it to Monday 16 August do so individually, so it is not counted here.

A weekend date stays on the page if a holiday lands on it: the Assumption on a Saturday in 2026 is included in the count of non-working dates, even though it takes nobody off a working day. A Spanish holiday on a Sunday is not automatically replaced by the following Monday, because the Monday is a regional decision; this page therefore never adds one.

What is deliberately left out: any day found in some regions only, the two municipal holidays that the council of each town publishes, the island holidays of the Canary Islands, and Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, which many employers treat as holidays but the law does not.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2025-21667
• https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-21254

How the counts are made