Basque Country, Spain public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Saint James' Day falls on Saturday 25 July and no substitute weekday is counted; Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Basque Country, 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.

Public holidays in 2026

12 dates are counted as non-working in Basque Country in 2026; 10 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 21 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 19 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 23 working days in July, 1 holiday
• 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.

• 5 days Thursday 2 April 2026 to Monday 6 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 Basque Country

The Basque Autonomous Community stands out among the communities here for a holiday that exists in one of the two years covered. The BOE annex for 2027 lists Thursday 7 October as the anniversary of the first Basque Government, formed in 1936. Nothing similar appears in the 2026 annex, so anyone planning beyond 2027 should wait for the next resolution rather than assume that the day repeats.

The count is twelve in both years, but the make-up changes. In 2026 the Basque calendar includes Saint Joseph (Thursday 19 March) and Saint James (Saturday 25 July), together with Maundy Thursday on 2 April, Good Friday on 3 April and Easter Monday on 6 April. National rules let a community choose between the two saints' days, and the Basque Country kept both. In 2027 neither is listed: Saint James falls on a Sunday and Saint Joseph does not appear in the annex for this community. Easter Monday stays, on 29 March, and the October anniversary fills the gap.

The Basque Government does not turn Sunday holidays into Monday ones. There is no substitute for 2 November or 7 December 2026, and none for 16 August 2027. That is what separates it from Castile and León, Cantabria and Aragon, which each took one or more of those Mondays, and it matches the Balearic Islands, which also add Easter Monday.

Neighbouring Navarre and La Rioja both have Easter Monday in 2027, so a worker crossing the border from Vitoria-Gasteiz or Bilbao finds the same Easter in those two communities; Cantabria, to the west, has no Easter Monday and is the odd one out.

Left out of the count: the two municipal holidays that each town may announce in the Basque official bulletin, such as the city festivals of Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz and San Sebastián, along with the territorial differences between Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa in local calendars. A year worked in one of those places has two fewer working days than the figure shown. Days given by collective agreement, which are common in Basque industry, are not holidays by law and are not counted.

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