Galicia, 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 Galicia, 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 Galicia 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 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 20 working days in July, 1 holiday
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• 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.

• 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 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 Galicia

Galicia, in the north-west corner of Spain, has a holiday calendar that leans on saints' days rather than on the second Easter holiday. The Xunta drafts the regional list, the Ministry of Labour receives it, and the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) prints it every October. The figures here follow the BOE resolutions for 2026 and 2027.

In 2026 Galicia has twelve holidays: 1 January, 6 January, Saint Joseph's Day (Thursday 19 March), Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April), 1 May, Saint John's Day (Wednesday 24 June), 25 July, 15 August, 12 October, 8 December and 25 December. The 25 July entry is both the feast of Saint James the Apostle and Galicia's national day, and the region has chosen to keep it. Two of the twelve fall on a Saturday that year, 25 July and 15 August, so ten of them cost a working day. Galicia does not keep Easter Monday, and it moves neither All Saints' Day nor Constitution Day to a Monday in 2026, unlike Extremadura and Madrid.

The 2027 list has a different character. It reads 1 January, 6 January, Saint Joseph's Day (Friday 19 March), Maundy Thursday (25 March), Good Friday (26 March), 1 May, Galician Literature Day (Monday 17 May), 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. The Día das Letras Galegas on 17 May, dedicated each year to a Galician writer, returns as a Monday holiday after falling on a Sunday in 2026. Saint John's Day and 25 July do not appear in 2027, since 25 July falls on a Sunday and Galicia did not carry it forward. Saint Joseph's Day, by contrast, stays on the list. 1 May and 25 December are Saturdays, which leaves ten weekday holidays.

Neighbouring regions make different choices. Asturias, to the east, keeps Asturias Day on 8 September, and Castilla y León has its own holiday on 23 April, so a Galician employee travelling for work will meet calendars that rarely agree beyond the handful of days common to the whole country.

Two exclusions matter for anyone counting working days. Every Galician municipality may name up to two local holidays, set by the town and published by the Xunta, and they are not part of these counts. Nor are the fiestas of individual towns, which vary widely, or 24 and 31 December, which are working days for most employees even though many take them off. When a national holiday lands on a Sunday and Galicia does not move it, the day is simply lost for that year, as happened with 15 August 2027.

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