Extremadura, 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 Extremadura, 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 Extremadura 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 Thursday 13 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 8 September 2028 to Sunday 10 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

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.

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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 Extremadura

Extremadura is a region that tends to move its holidays to Mondays when the calendar allows. Spanish regions may shift a national holiday that falls on a Sunday to the next day, or swap it for a date of their own, and Extremadura uses both options. The list below comes from the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE), where the regional government's choices are published each October.

Extremadura Day, on 8 September, is the region's own holiday. Beyond that the region follows the national pattern and keeps Maundy Thursday, but not Easter Monday. In 2026 the twelve days are 1 January, 6 January, Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April), 1 May, 15 August, Extremadura Day (Tuesday 8 September), 12 October, Monday 2 November, Monday 7 December, 8 December and 25 December. The two Mondays exist because 1 November and 6 December both fell on a Sunday that year, and the region chose to give the day after instead of dropping the holiday. The Assumption on 15 August is a Saturday in 2026 and removes no weekday.

The 2027 resolution of 8 October 2026 gives a list that no rule of the calendar alone would predict. It is 1 January, 6 January, Maundy Thursday (25 March), Good Friday (26 March), 1 May, Extremadura Day (Wednesday 8 September), Monday 11 October, 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. Monday 11 October is entered in the BOE as a substitute for 15 August, which falls on a Sunday in 2027. Together with Tuesday 12 October it makes a four-day autumn weekend from Saturday 9 to Tuesday 12 October. The fixed holidays 1 May and 25 December fall on Saturdays that year, so ten of the twelve days are on weekdays.

Neighbouring regions have other patterns. Castilla y León has a holiday on 23 April, Castilla-La Mancha celebrates its own day in late May and kept Easter Monday in 2026, while Extremadura has no spring holiday of its own and keeps Easter Monday in neither 2026 nor 2027.

What is not counted: each municipality may choose two local holidays, usually the patron saint's day and a fair or pilgrimage day, and these are published in the regional bulletin. They are not in the counts, so a given town's year may include two more days off. Easter Saturday and 24 and 31 December are not statutory holidays, so they count as working days.

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