Cantabria, 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 Cantabria, 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 Cantabria 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 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 20 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 20 working days in September, 1 holiday
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 18 working days in December, 3 holidays

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Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 28 July 2028 to Sunday 30 July 2028
• 3 days Friday 15 September 2028 to Sunday 17 September 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

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Calendar and data downloads

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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