Community of Madrid, 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 Community of Madrid, 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 Community of Madrid 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 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• 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 Thursday 13 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 4 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Tuesday 2 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 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