Catalonia, 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 Saint John the Baptist (Saturday 24 June) and Saint Stephen's Day (Tuesday 26 December) are 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 Catalonia, 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 Catalonia 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 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 21 working days in July
• 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

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 Friday 14 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Saturday 9 September 2028 to Monday 11 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.

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