Catalonia, Spain public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted; Saint Stephen's Day falls on Saturday 26 December and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Catalonia, one fewer 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 Catalonia 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 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• 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 21 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 Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Friday 11 September 2026 to Sunday 13 September 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 Catalonia

Like every Spanish region, Catalonia fixes its calendar in a regional instrument before the list is forwarded to Madrid. Each spring the Departament d'Empresa i Treball issues an order that sets the official working holidays for the following year, publishes it in the Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya (DOGC), and the Ministry of Labour then reprints the result in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE). This page follows that BOE list and counts the days it names.

Catalonia keeps Easter Monday (Dilluns de Pasqua Florida) and does not keep Maundy Thursday, which most of Spain does. It also has two days of its own. Sant Joan, on 24 June, is the midsummer holiday and is celebrated with bonfires on the night before. The Diada Nacional de Catalunya, on 11 September, commemorates the fall of Barcelona in 1714. Saint Stephen's Day on 26 December is a Catalan tradition too, though the region's 2027 list has no entry for it because it falls on a Sunday and was not moved.

In 2026 the list has twelve days: 1 January, 6 January, Good Friday (3 April), Easter Monday (6 April), 1 May, Sant Joan (Wednesday 24 June), 15 August, the Diada (Friday 11 September), 12 October, 8 December, 25 December and 26 December. All Saints' Day, a Sunday that year, was not moved to the Monday. For 2027 the BOE of 13 October 2026 shows another twelve: 1 January, 6 January, Good Friday (26 March), Easter Monday (29 March), 1 May, Sant Joan (Thursday 24 June), the Diada, 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. The Diada falls on a Saturday in 2027, so it costs no working day, and neither does 1 May or 25 December.

One feature is specific to the Val d'Aran. In that valley the order replaces one day with the Fiesta de Arán on 17 June: Saint Stephen's Day in 2026 and Easter Monday in 2027. These counts follow the rest of Catalonia and do not apply the valley's swap.

Next door, Valencia keeps Easter Monday as Catalonia does but adds 19 March and 9 October, while further south Murcia has Maundy Thursday instead of Easter Monday. A worker commuting across a regional border can therefore have a different calendar from a colleague a few kilometres away.

Municipalities add two local holidays each, chosen by the town council and published by the Generalitat. Barcelona, for instance, has used La Mercè in September. Such days are not counted here, so a full year in any given town has up to two fewer working days than shown. Weekend holidays reduce nothing, as Catalonia does not shift them.

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