Valencian Community, Spain public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and no substitute weekday is counted.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 11 weekdays in Valencian Community, 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 Valencian Community in 2026; 11 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 21 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 20 working days in October, 2 holidays
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 21 working days in December, 2 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 Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 4 days Friday 9 October 2026 to Monday 12 October 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 Valencian Community

The Valencian Community (Comunitat Valenciana) builds its working calendar on a pattern that differs from most of Spain: it keeps Good Friday and Easter Monday but not Maundy Thursday, and it adds Saint Joseph's Day on 19 March, which in Valencia coincides with the climax of the Falles festival. The list is passed to the Ministry of Labour and appears in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) each October. These figures come from the resolutions of 17 October 2025 and 8 October 2026.

The community's own holiday is 9 October, the Día de la Comunitat Valenciana, which recalls the entry of King James I into the city of Valencia in 1238. In 2026 it is a Friday and in 2027 a Saturday. For 2026 the twelve holidays are 1 January, 6 January, Saint Joseph's Day (Thursday 19 March), Good Friday (3 April), Easter Monday (6 April), 1 May, Saint John's Day (Wednesday 24 June), 15 August, 9 October, Monday 12 October, 8 December and 25 December. Only the Assumption, on a Saturday, loses its weekday value, which leaves eleven weekday holidays.

The 2027 list is shorter in practice. It names 1 January, 6 January, Saint Joseph's Day (Friday 19 March), Good Friday (26 March), Easter Monday (29 March), 1 May, 9 October, 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December. Saint John's Day, on 24 June, is no longer on the list. Three of the twelve fall on a Saturday: 1 May, the community's own day on 9 October, and Christmas Day, so only nine cost a working day. Saturday 9 and Tuesday 12 October bracket an ordinary Monday, so the autumn break of 2027 removes a single working day, on 12 October.

The community's approach to the weekend is simple: it moves nothing. In 2026 neither All Saints' Day nor Constitution Day, both Sundays, was shifted to the Monday, which sets Valencia apart from Murcia, Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha. The 2027 list does not move the Sunday Assumption either.

To the north Catalonia keeps Easter Monday but not Saint Joseph's Day, and to the south Murcia keeps Saint Joseph's Day but not Easter Monday; Valencia keeps both. The three provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia share the one regional list.

Each municipality may declare up to two local holidays, published in the regional bulletin, and towns usually choose a patron-saint day and a festival date. They are not part of these counts, so a worker in a particular town may have two fewer working days than shown.

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