La Rioja, 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 La Rioja, 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 La Rioja 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 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 21 working days in July
• 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.

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

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 La Rioja

La Rioja is Spain's smallest mainland region by area, and its holiday list is among the most generous at Easter. It is one of the few communities that keeps both Maundy Thursday and Easter Monday, so the Easter break runs from Thursday to Monday. The calendar is sent each year to the Ministry of Labour, which publishes it in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE); the days below are taken from the BOE resolutions of 17 October 2025 and 8 October 2026.

The region's own holiday is the Día de La Rioja on 9 June, which recalls the approval of its Statute of Autonomy in 1982. It falls on Tuesday 9 June 2026 and on Wednesday 9 June 2027, so in both years it takes away a working day. Apart from it, La Rioja does not replace any of the national days with a regional one, and it has no holiday for Saint Joseph, Saint James or Saint John.

The 2026 list has twelve days: 1 January, 6 January, Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April), Easter Monday (6 April), 1 May, 9 June, 15 August, 12 October, 8 December, 25 December, with Monday 7 December among them. That Monday exists because Constitution Day, 6 December, falls on a Sunday in 2026 and La Rioja moved it. All Saints' Day, also a Sunday, was not moved, which is where La Rioja differs from Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Madrid and Navarre. The Assumption is a Saturday and takes no weekday.

For 2027 the list is again twelve: 1 January, 6 January, Maundy Thursday (25 March), Good Friday (26 March), Easter Monday (29 March), 1 May, 9 June, 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. Because 1 May and 25 December are Saturdays and 15 August is a Sunday that was not carried to the Monday, ten of the twelve fall on weekdays. The Easter pattern is the same as in 2026.

To the north Navarre also keeps Easter Monday, and so does the Basque Country, while Aragon and Castilla y León give a different mix of local days. The practical result is that a long Easter break in La Rioja can coincide with a short one only a few kilometres away across the regional boundary.

These counts leave out the two local holidays that each Riojan municipality may add. Logroño and the smaller towns publish theirs in the regional bulletin, and they are usually a patron saint's day and a festival date. They are not counted, so a particular town may have two more days off than the totals shown. Holidays that fall on a weekend are listed but remove no working day, as the region only shifts the ones named in the BOE.

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