Community of Madrid, Spain public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Madrid Day falls on Saturday 2 May and no substitute weekday is counted; Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Community of Madrid, the same as 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 Community of Madrid 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, 2 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 20 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 20 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 Thursday 2 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 10 October 2026 to Monday 12 October 2026
• 3 days Saturday 31 October 2026 to Monday 2 November 2026
• 4 days Saturday 5 December 2026 to Tuesday 8 December 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.

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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 Community of Madrid

The Community of Madrid is the region where the question "how many days off do I get?" most often has a different answer from the one in the news, because the regional government decides each autumn whether to keep Madrid Day, to move a Sunday holiday to the Monday, and whether to keep Saint Joseph's Day. This page follows the lists published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) on 28 October 2025 for 2026 and on 13 October 2026 for 2027.

Madrid Day, on 2 May, commemorates the 1808 uprising against French troops. The region keeps Maundy Thursday and Good Friday but not Easter Monday. In 2026 the twelve holidays are 1 January, 6 January, Maundy Thursday (2 April), Good Friday (3 April), 1 May, 2 May, 15 August, 12 October, Monday 2 November, Monday 7 December, 8 December and 25 December. Madrid is one of the regions that moves All Saints' Day and Constitution Day to the Monday when they fall on a Sunday, and that is what produced the two Mondays in autumn 2026. Madrid Day and the Assumption both fall on a Saturday that year, so only ten of the twelve cost a working day, and Madrid did not add a Monday for either.

The 2027 resolution is quite different. It lists 1 January, 6 January, Saint Joseph's Day (Friday 19 March), Maundy Thursday (25 March), Good Friday (26 March), 1 May, Monday 16 August, 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. Madrid Day does not appear because 2 May is a Sunday and the region did not move it to Monday 3 May. Instead the Assumption, on Sunday 15 August, is moved to Monday 16 August, which gives the city a summer long weekend. Saint Joseph's Day returns after being absent in 2026. 1 May and 25 December are Saturdays, so ten holidays are on weekdays.

Compared with its neighbours, Castilla-La Mancha keeps Easter Monday in 2026 but not 2027 and has no Madrid Day, and Castilla y León has its own holiday on 23 April. The community borders only those two.

What is not counted: two local holidays per municipality, chosen by the town council and published in the regional bulletin. The city of Madrid has traditionally used San Isidro on 15 May and La Almudena on 9 November. They are not in the counts, so a worker in the capital will have two fewer working days than the totals. Easter Saturday, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are not holidays by law and 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