Cantabria, Spain 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 11 weekdays in Cantabria, one more than 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 Cantabria in 2026; 11 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 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 22 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September, 1 holiday
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 20 working days in December, 3 holidays

Compare with the rest of Spain

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 4 days Thursday 2 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
• 4 days Saturday 5 December 2026 to Tuesday 8 December 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.

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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 Cantabria

Cantabria has twelve holidays in 2026 and twelve in 2027. Two are regional, separated by the summer: the Day of the Institutions of Cantabria on 28 July and the Day of Our Lady of Bien Aparecida on 15 September. Both are named in the BOE annexes and neither was moved in either year; they fall on Tuesdays in 2026 and Wednesdays in 2027.

The first of the two marks the autonomy statute. The second honours the patron of the community, whose shrine stands near Ampuero. Together they make Cantabria the community in this group with two days of its own, where Asturias, Aragon and Castile and León each have only one and the Basque Country has one in 2027.

Easter is conventional: Maundy Thursday (2 April 2026, 25 March 2027) and Good Friday, with no Easter Monday. On Sunday substitutions Cantabria took a single Monday in 2026, 7 December after Constitution Day, but not 2 November. For 2027 it takes none, so Monday 16 August 2027 is a working day in Cantabria while Asturias, Aragon and Castile and León are off. That is the clearest difference with the neighbours, and a commuter between Santander and Oviedo notices it that week.

To the east the Basque Country keeps neither of the Cantabrian regional days. In exchange its 2027 calendar has Easter Monday and an October holiday that Cantabria lacks.

Municipal holidays are separate. Each Cantabrian council can select two days, published in the regional gazette, so two towns a few kilometres apart may differ. They are left out of this count; a worker in one of them has two fewer working days than the number of holidays listed above suggests. A day granted only by a collective agreement, such as Christmas Eve in some firms, is not a legal holiday and is likewise excluded.

Saint Joseph and Saint James are not kept in Cantabria in the years covered. The regional list is therefore the two summer days, Maundy Thursday and one December Monday in 2026.

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