Canary 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.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 11 weekdays in Canary Islands, two 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 Canary 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 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• 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 Thursday 13 April 2028 to Sunday 16 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.

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 Canary Islands

The Canary Islands count eleven community-wide holidays in both 2026 and 2027, one fewer than the other communities in this group. The archipelago does not use Easter Monday, and in 2026 it skips the December Monday that Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León took.

For 2026 the BOE annex gives New Year's Day, Epiphany, Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April), Labour Day, Canary Islands Day (30 May), the Assumption (15 August), the National Day, Monday 2 November after All Saints' Day, the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day. Two of those, Canary Islands Day and the Assumption, fall on Saturdays, so they add to the list without taking anyone off a working day.

The 2027 annex differs in one respect. It has no entry for Canary Islands Day: 30 May is a Sunday, and the Canarian government did not designate another day in its place. The only Monday substitution that year is 16 August, after the Sunday Assumption. The community-wide total therefore stays at eleven while the regional day disappears from the calendar.

Island holidays form a second layer. A Canarian decree is published each year, and the one for 2027 (Decree 115/2026) gives each island an extra day: 2 February in Tenerife for the Virgin of Candelaria, 5 August in La Palma, 8 September in Gran Canaria, 15 September in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, 17 September in Fuerteventura, 24 September in El Hierro and 4 October in La Gomera. The 2026 decree shifted two of those dates by one day (Fuerteventura on 18 September and La Gomera on 5 October). They are statutory holidays for people living on the island concerned, but this page counts the community as a whole, not each island, so they are left out.

The islands have no land border, so the comparison with other communities concerns only those mainland employers who operate in the archipelago. A company with offices in Madrid and Las Palmas will find that the Easter calendar is the same in both, while the Monday substitutions are not.

The two municipal holidays that every town may add are also outside the count.

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