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Public holidays in Spain 2026: national and regional calendar
Every public holiday in Spain for 2026 in tables, region by region. With the long weekends still to come, what happens when a holiday falls on a Sunday or a Saturday and how to keep any of them from coming off annual leave.
Looking for 2027? The BOE published it on 13 October 2026: its holidays and long weekends are in Spain’s public holidays and long weekends in 2027, and each region’s calendar, always with the latest year published, in public holidays in Spain by region.
Spain’s 2026 work calendar was set by the resolution of the Directorate-General for Labour published in the BOE on 28 October 2025. It differs from region to region: Maundy Thursday was not a holiday in Catalonia or the Valencian Community but Easter Monday was, and Monday 2 November and Monday 7 December are holidays in some regions and working days in others.
Here you have, in tables, the national public holidays and those of every Spanish autonomous community for 2026, plus the long weekends still to come, what happens when a holiday falls on a Sunday or a Saturday, and how to make sure none of them is ever taken off anybody’s annual leave.
In short. Spain has at most 14 public holidays a year, paid and not to be made up: 12 set by the state and each region, and 2 local ones per municipality. In 2026 8 are common to the whole country. All Saints’ Day and Constitution Day fall on a Sunday: nine regions move the day off to Monday 2 November, nine regions plus Melilla to Monday 7 December, and the rest swap them for holidays of their own.
How many public holidays Spain has and who sets them
Article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute sets a maximum of fourteen public holidays a year, paid and not to be made up, of which two are local. The other twelve come from three sources:
- National holidays that cannot be changed: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Labour Day, Assumption Day, Spain’s National Day, All Saints’ Day, Constitution Day, the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day.
- National holidays each region may replace with one of its own: 6 January, Maundy Thursday and a choice between St Joseph’s Day (19 March) and St James’ Day (25 July). That is why Maundy Thursday is a holiday almost everywhere except Catalonia and the Valencian Community, which swap it for Easter Monday.
- The Monday after a national holiday that falls on a Sunday. The day off moves to Monday, but the region may swap that Monday for a holiday of its own. That explains 2 November and 7 December 2026.
Local holidays are proposed by each town council and published in the regional or provincial gazette. The calendar that applies to each employee is the one of their workplace: the national, regional and local holidays of where they work, not those of the company’s head office.
National public holidays in Spain in 2026
These eight days are public holidays across Spain in 2026:
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January | Thursday | New Year’s Day |
| 6 January | Tuesday | Epiphany |
| 3 April | Friday | Good Friday |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day |
| 15 August | Saturday | Assumption Day |
| 12 October | Monday | Spain’s National Day |
| 8 December | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception |
| 25 December | Friday | Christmas Day |
1 November and 6 December 2026 fall on a Sunday. Nine regions have moved All Saints’ Day to Monday 2 November, and nine regions plus Melilla have moved Constitution Day to Monday 7 December: you will find them in the regional table. Maundy Thursday, 2 April, was a holiday everywhere except Catalonia and the Valencian Community.
Public holidays by region in 2026
On top of the eight national ones, each region has these holidays of its own in 2026. With them every region reaches twelve, and each municipality then adds its two local holidays.
| Region | Regional holidays |
|---|---|
| Andalusia | Saturday 28 February: Andalusia Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Aragon | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Thursday 23 April: St George’s Day, Aragon Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Asturias | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Tuesday 8 September: Asturias Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Balearic Islands | Monday 2 March: Monday after Balearic Islands Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Saturday 26 December: St Stephen’s Day |
| Canary Islands | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Saturday 30 May: Canary Islands Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Plus one holiday per island (below) |
| Cantabria | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Tuesday 28 July: Cantabria Institutions Day Tuesday 15 September: La Bien Aparecida (patron of Cantabria) Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Castile-La Mancha | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Thursday 4 June: Corpus Christi Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day |
| Castile and León | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Thursday 23 April: Castile and León Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Catalonia | Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Wednesday 24 June: St John’s Day Friday 11 September: National Day of Catalonia Saturday 26 December: St Stephen’s Day |
| Extremadura | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Tuesday 8 September: Extremadura Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Galicia | Thursday 19 March: St Joseph’s Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Wednesday 24 June: St John’s Day Saturday 25 July: Galicia Day |
| Community of Madrid | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Saturday 2 May: Community of Madrid Day Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Region of Murcia | Thursday 19 March: St Joseph’s Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Tuesday 9 June: Region of Murcia Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Navarre | Thursday 19 March: St Joseph’s Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Monday 2 November: Monday after All Saints’ Day |
| Basque Country | Thursday 19 March: St Joseph’s Day Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Saturday 25 July: St James’ Day |
| La Rioja | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Tuesday 9 June: La Rioja Day Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
| Valencian Community | Thursday 19 March: St Joseph’s Day Monday 6 April: Easter Monday Wednesday 24 June: St John’s Day Friday 9 October: Valencian Community Day |
| Ceuta | Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Wednesday 27 May: Eid al-Adha Wednesday 5 August: Our Lady of Africa Wednesday 2 September: Ceuta Day |
| Melilla | Friday 20 March: Eid al-Fitr Thursday 2 April: Maundy Thursday Wednesday 27 May: Eid al-Adha Monday 7 December: Monday after Constitution Day |
The Canary Islands also have one holiday per island: in Tenerife, 2 February (Our Lady of Candelaria); in La Palma, 5 August (Our Lady of the Snows); in Gran Canaria, 8 September (Our Lady of the Pine); in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, 15 September (Our Lady of the Volcanoes); in Fuerteventura, 18 September (Our Lady of La Peña); in El Hierro, 24 September (Our Lady of the Kings); and in La Gomera, 5 October (Our Lady of Guadalupe).
Aran: 26 December (St Stephen’s Day) is replaced by 17 June, Aran Day.
Source: Resolution of 17 October 2025 of the Directorate-General for Labour, published in the BOE on 28 October 2025.
The long weekends left in 2026
To close the year, these are the long weekends left by the common holidays and the Monday transfers. Each region may have more, depending on its local holidays.
- All Saints’ Day: Saturday 31 October to Monday 2 November, three days, where it has moved to the Monday.
- Constitution Day and the Immaculate Conception: Saturday 5 to Tuesday 8 December, four days in a row where the 7th is a holiday. Elsewhere, with Monday 7 as a day of leave.
- Christmas: Friday 25 December leaves a three-day weekend, Friday 25 to Sunday 27. And Friday 1 January 2027, another one.
Each region’s 2027 long weekends, including those left by its own holidays, are in Spain’s public holidays and long weekends in 2027, region by region.
Local holidays
Each municipality has up to two local holidays a year, usually its patron saint festivities. The town council proposes them and the region or province publishes them in its gazette, generally a few months after the regional calendar.
They are the ones most often forgotten. A company with offices in two towns has two different calendars even within the same province, and each employee follows the one of their workplace. For remote workers, it is worth stating in the remote work agreement which calendar applies.
A holiday on a Sunday, on a Saturday or during annual leave
On a Sunday, the day off moves to the following Monday (article 45.2 of Royal Decree 2001/1983), unless the region swaps that Monday for a holiday of its own (article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute). That is why you have to check each region’s calendar and not just the national one.
On a Saturday, it does not move. Someone who works Monday to Friday does not gain a day off unless their collective agreement says otherwise; someone who works Saturdays gets that day off.
During annual leave, it depends on how leave is counted. If leave is set in working days, as many collective agreements do, a holiday inside the period uses no day at all. If it is set as thirty calendar days, it runs from date to date and the holiday falls inside it. We explain it with examples in holiday entitlement in Spain in 2026.
If it has to be worked, the company pays those hours with a premium of at least 75% or makes up for them with time off (article 47 of Royal Decree 2001/1983). Many collective agreements improve that minimum. And that working day is recorded like any other.
How Quantummycos handles it
In Quantummycos the company’s public holidays and closures live in the Work calendar, and from there they flow on their own into each employee’s leave, absences and clock-ins:
- National holidays arrive on their own. Every company always has this year’s and next year’s national holidays without anybody copying them, and when the year changes, the following year’s appear.
- Yours, only once. The regional holidays and Monday transfers from the tables above, and the local ones of your town, are marked on the calendar with their name, just like a company closure such as 24 December or a week in August. The following year, one button copies last year’s days to the same date so you only review the ones that move.
- Each person, their own. A regional holiday only counts for people from that region, and a local one for the people you pick: a company with offices in several regions has each office’s calendar without duplicating anything.
- They never use up leave. A marked day does not count in any absence: a week off with a holiday in the middle is four days, not five. If the holiday is added later, the requests that include it are recalculated on their own.
- They show where they matter. They appear struck through, with their name, in the absence calendar on the web and in the mobile app. And whoever opens the clock-in on a holiday sees a notice, although they can still clock in if they are working that day.
- The assistant knows them. Anyone on the team can ask the app’s AI “when is the next public holiday?” or “are we working on 8 December?”, and it answers with their company’s calendar.
The Work calendar is part of the Enterprise plan. You can see how the module works or open the app and try it with your team.
Keep reading
- Public holidays in Spain by region, with every region’s holidays, calendar and long weekends, kept up to date with the BOE.
- Spain’s public holidays and long weekends in 2027, region by region, to plan next year.
- Holiday entitlement in Spain in 2026: how many days and how to calculate them, to square public holidays with each person’s leave.
- Paid leave in Spain 2026: days by situation, which is not taken off annual leave either.
- Mandatory digital time records in Spain in 2026, because a holiday worked is recorded too.
Sources
- Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, consolidated text of the Workers’ Statute (BOE), article 37.2.
- Royal Decree 2001/1983, of 28 July, on working time, special working hours and rest (BOE), articles 45, 46 and 47.
- Resolution of 17 October 2025 of the Directorate-General for Labour publishing the list of public holidays for 2026 (BOE).
This article is for information only and is not legal advice. The 2026 holidays are those in the state resolution published in the BOE on 28 October 2025: always check your town’s local holidays before closing leave or rotas. Last reviewed: 16 October 2026.
- Work calendar
- Holidays
- Absences
- Employment law
Frequently asked questions
As every year, up to fourteen: twelve set by the state and each region, and two local ones per municipality. Across Spain, 1 and 6 January, Good Friday (3 April), 1 May, 15 August, 12 October, 8 December and 25 December are holidays.
It depends on the region. All Saints’ Day falls on a Sunday and the day off moves to Monday 2 November in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, the Canary Islands, Castile-La Mancha, Castile and León, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid and Navarre. In the other regions, Ceuta and Melilla, 2 November is a working day.
It depends on the region. Constitution Day falls on a Sunday and the day off moves to Monday 7 in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castile and León, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid, the Region of Murcia, La Rioja and Melilla. Elsewhere, taking the 7th off gives four days in a row, Saturday 5 to Tuesday 8.
Saturday 31 October to Monday 2 November where All Saints’ Day moves to the Monday; Saturday 5 to Tuesday 8 December where the 7th is a holiday, or with that day off; and the Christmas weekend, Friday 25 to Sunday 27 December.
The BOE published it on 13 October 2026. Its holidays and long weekends are in the Quantummycos article on Spain’s public holidays and long weekends in 2027, and each region’s calendar, always with the latest year published, in its public holidays by region.
