Spain: public holidays in 2026
- Kept everywhere
- 10
- On a weekend
- 3
- Make a long weekend
- 4
- Regional only
- 44
Spain keeps 10 public holidays throughout the country in 2026, and a further 44 that apply only in named regions. The difference matters: the second group is a working day for most of the country.
3 of the 10 fall on a Saturday or a Sunday in 2026: Assumption of Mary, All Saints' Day and Constitution Day. Those are days nobody takes off, and most countries here do not move them to the Monday.
4 land on a Monday or a Friday and make a long weekend without spending a day of leave: Good Friday, Labour Day, Spanish National Day and Christmas Day.
The 44 regional days are kept in 26 regions between them, and include Virgen de la Candelaria, Shrove Tuesday and Andalusia Day. Whether any of them applies depends on where in the country you are, not on which company you work for.
December carries 3 of them, more than any other month of the year.
The dates come from an openly licensed aggregation of official national publications. A day is counted here only when it is a public holiday: a day an employer may grant rather than a day the country stops is left out. Days are named in this language where the source has that name and in English otherwise. Whether a day applies everywhere is read from whether the source attaches any region to it, not from which parliament passed it, because in Spain as in several countries here the two answers differ.
A public holiday is not a promise that everything is shut, and it is not the same thing as a day off work in every contract. Dates more than a year or two ahead can still move, because some of them are fixed by decree each year rather than by the calendar.
Spain: public holidays in 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday | Where it applies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | Thursday | New Year's Day | the whole country |
| 2026-01-06 | Tuesday | Epiphany | the whole country |
| 2026-02-02 | Monday | Virgen de la Candelaria | CN-SC-TE |
| 2026-02-13 | Friday | Shrove Tuesday | EX |
| 2026-02-28 | Saturday | Andalusia Day | AN |
| 2026-03-02 | Monday | Regional Holiday on the Balearic Islands | IB |
| 2026-03-13 | Friday | Regional Holiday in Melilla | ML |
| 2026-03-19 | Thursday | St Joseph's Day | GA, MC, NC, PV, VC |
| 2026-03-20 | Friday | End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr) | CE, ML |
| 2026-04-02 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | AN, AR, AS, CB, CE, CL, CM, CN, EX, GA, IB, MC, MD, ML, NC, PV, RI |
| 2026-04-03 | Friday | Good Friday | the whole country |
| 2026-04-06 | Monday | Easter Monday | CB, CM, CT, IB, NC, PV, RI, VC |
| 2026-04-23 | Thursday | Aragon Day | AR |
| 2026-04-23 | Thursday | Regional Holiday in Castile and León | CL |
| 2026-05-01 | Friday | Labour Day | the whole country |
| 2026-05-02 | Saturday | Regional Holiday in Madrid | MD |
| 2026-05-17 | Sunday | Galician Letters Day | GA |
| 2026-05-27 | Wednesday | Feast of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha) | CE, ML |
| 2026-05-30 | Saturday | Regional Holiday on the Canary Islands | CN |
| 2026-05-31 | Sunday | Regional Holiday in Castilla-La Mancha | CM |
| 2026-06-04 | Thursday | Corpus Christi | CM |
| 2026-06-09 | Tuesday | Regional Holiday in La Rioja | RI |
| 2026-06-09 | Tuesday | Regional Holiday in Murcia | MC |
| 2026-06-13 | Saturday | St Anthony | CE |
| 2026-06-19 | Friday | Corpus Christi | CM |
| 2026-06-24 | Wednesday | St John's Day | CT, GA, VC |
| 2026-07-25 | Saturday | National Day of Galicia | GA |
| 2026-07-25 | Saturday | Saint James' Day | MD, NC, PV |
| 2026-07-28 | Tuesday | Cantabrian Institutions Day | CB |
| 2026-08-05 | Wednesday | Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves | CN-SC-LP |
| 2026-08-05 | Wednesday | Nuestra Señora de África | CE |
| 2026-08-15 | Saturday | Assumption of Mary | the whole country |
| 2026-09-02 | Wednesday | Regional Holiday in Ceuta | CE |
| 2026-09-08 | Tuesday | Regional Holiday in Extremadura | EX |
| 2026-09-08 | Tuesday | Asturias Day | AS |
| 2026-09-08 | Tuesday | Día de Ntra. Sra. Virgen de la Victoria | ML |
| 2026-09-08 | Tuesday | Nuestra Señora del Pino | CN-LP-GC |
| 2026-09-11 | Friday | National Day of Catalonia | CT |
| 2026-09-15 | Tuesday | Regional Holiday in Cantabria | CB |
| 2026-09-15 | Tuesday | Nuestra Señora de Los Volcanes | CN-LP-LA |
| 2026-09-17 | Thursday | Regional Holiday in Meilla | ML |
| 2026-09-18 | Friday | Nuestra Señora de la Peña | CN-LP-FV |
| 2026-09-24 | Thursday | Nuestra Señora de Los Reyes | CN-SC-EH |
| 2026-10-05 | Monday | Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe | CN-SC-LG |
| 2026-10-09 | Friday | Regional Holiday in Valencia | VC |
| 2026-10-12 | Monday | Spanish National Day | the whole country |
| 2026-11-01 | Sunday | All Saints' Day | the whole country |
| 2026-11-02 | Monday | Monday following All Saints' Day | AR, CM, CN, MD, NC |
| 2026-12-03 | Thursday | San Francisco Javier | NC |
| 2026-12-06 | Sunday | Constitution Day | the whole country |
| 2026-12-07 | Monday | Monday following Constitution Day | AR, CB, MC, MD, ML, RI |
| 2026-12-08 | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception | the whole country |
| 2026-12-25 | Friday | Christmas Day | the whole country |
| 2026-12-26 | Saturday | St Stephen's Day | CT, IB |
Questions
How many public holidays does Spain have in 2026?
10 apply across the whole country, and 44 more apply only in particular regions. The dated list is on this page, so the count can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Are the shops shut on all of them?
That is a separate question and this page does not answer it. Opening hours on a public holiday are set locally and by trade, and no measured source for them exists here.
Can these dates change?
The fixed ones do not. The movable ones follow Easter and are as certain as the calendar, and a few are set by decree each year, which is why this page states the year it is describing.
Related pages
Sources
- OpenHolidays, events-verified (ODbL 1.0)