Balearic Islands, Spain public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and no substitute weekday is counted.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• Spanish law allows a community at most 12 holidays a year, two of them local (Estatuto de los Trabajadores, art. 37.2), and the calculated 2028 list is longer, so Maundy Thursday (Thursday 13 April) is left out until the BOE resolution names the community's days; the choice of the day is the community's.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 11 weekdays in Balearic Islands, one more than in 2027.

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.

Public holidays in 2028

12 dates are counted as non-working in Balearic Islands in 2028; 11 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule

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 21 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 18 working days in December, 3 holidays

Compare with the rest of Spain

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 4 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 8 December 2028 to Sunday 10 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 30 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029

Best days to take leave in 2028

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.

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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 Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands have twelve holidays in 2026 and twelve in 2027, arranged differently from most of the mainland. Like the Basque Country they give all three days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday, and in 2026 they add Saint Stephen's Day on top, while declining the Monday substitutions that several mainland regions make.

In 2026 the islands observe Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April) and Easter Monday (6 April). Their own holiday, the Day of the Balearic Islands, recalls the statute of autonomy of 1 March. In 2026 that date is a Sunday, so the BOE lists the holiday on Monday 2 March; in 2027 it is Monday 1 March. Saint Stephen's Day, 26 December, is a holiday in 2026, when it falls on a Saturday, but not in 2027, when it falls on a Sunday and the annex does not move it.

None of the Monday substitutions appears in either year. The islands take no Monday for 2 November or 7 December 2026, and none after the Assumption in 2027. That places them with the Basque Country and against Andalusia, Aragon and Asturias, which each took one or more of those Mondays.

At Easter the difference is visible. In 2027 Catalonia and Valencia also have Easter Monday, 29 March, but the Balearic Islands have Maundy Thursday as well, so the break runs for five days from 25 to 29 March. Saint Joseph and Saint James are not kept by the community in the years covered here.

On top of the regional calendar sit the municipal holidays. Each municipality may fix two days, published in the Balearic official bulletin, and in practice they are often a patron saint's day, such as Saint Sebastian in Palma on 20 January. They differ between Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera and between towns on the same island, so they are not counted on this page. The same applies to customs with no legal force, for example days that an individual employer gives away at Christmas.

The rule on this page is simple: every date shown in the BOE annex for the islands is counted, including those that fall on a weekend.

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