The calendar
Spain layers three calendars: national days, regional days set by each autonomous community, and two local days per municipality. Fourteen holidays a year is the legal maximum, and no two provinces end up with the same fourteen.
Country view
Spain · 2026
32 recorded days · 32 public · 0 bank · 0 school · 22 regional
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Día de todos los Santos
Sunday · 1 Nov 2026 · Public
DateHolidayTypeShops shut?
01JanAño Nuevo
New Year's Day · Nationwide
PublicShut
Día de Reyes / Epifanía del Señor
Epiphany · Nationwide
PublicShut
Día de Andalucía
Day of Andalucía · Regional · ES-AN
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Dia de les Illes Balears
Day of the Balearic Islands · Regional · ES-IB
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Jueves Santo
Maundy Thursday · Regional · ES-AN, ES-AR, ES-CL, ES-CM, ES-CN, ES-EX, ES-GA, ES-IB, ES-RI, ES-MD, ES-MC, ES-NC, ES-AS, ES-PV, ES-CB
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Viernes Santo
Good Friday · Nationwide
PublicShut
Lunes de Pascua
Easter Monday · Regional · ES-CT, ES-IB, ES-RI, ES-NC, ES-PV, ES-VC
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Día de Castilla y León
Castile and León Day · Regional · ES-CL
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San Jorge (Día de Aragón)
Day of Aragón · Regional · ES-AR
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Fiesta del trabajo
Labour Day · Nationwide
PublicShut
Fiesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
Day of Madrid · Regional · ES-MD
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Día das Letras Galegas
Galician Literature Day · Regional · ES-GA
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Día de Canarias
Day of the Canary Islands · Regional · ES-CN
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Día de la Región Castilla-La Mancha
Day of Castilla-La Mancha · Regional · ES-CM
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Corpus Christi
Regional · ES-CM
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Día de La Rioja
Day of La Rioja · Regional · ES-RI
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Día de la Región de Murcia
Day of Murcia · Regional · ES-MC
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Sant Joan
St. John's Day · Regional · ES-CT, ES-VC
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Santiago Apóstol
Regional · ES-GA, ES-PV
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Día de las Instituciones de Cantabria
Day of the Cantabrian Institutions · Regional · ES-CB
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Asunción
Assumption · Nationwide
PublicShut
Día de Asturias
Day of Asturias · Regional · ES-AS
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Día de Extremadura
Day of Extremadura · Regional · ES-EX
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Diada Nacional de Catalunya
National Day of Catalonia · Regional · ES-CT
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Festividad de la Bien Aparecida
Feast of Our Lady of Bien Aparecida · Regional · ES-CB
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Dia de la Comunitat Valenciana
Day of the Valencian Community · Regional · ES-VC
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Fiesta Nacional de España
National Day of Spain · Nationwide
PublicShut
Día de todos los Santos
All Saints Day · Nationwide
PublicShut
Día de la Constitución
Constitution Day · Nationwide
PublicShut
Inmaculada Concepción
Immaculate Conception · Nationwide
PublicShut
Navidad
Christmas Day · Nationwide
PublicShut
Feast of Saint Stephen
St. Stephen's Day · Regional · ES-CT
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Data sources: Each autonomous community's education department · Nager.Date public holiday API. How we source and check dates
● Public most things closed · ● Bank banks only · ● Regional some areas · ● School term dates
Bridge days worth booking
One day of leave, four days off. These are the 2026 dates where the maths works.
Inmaculada Concepción
Tuesday · 8 Dec 2026
Falls on a Tuesday. Book the Monday off and you get a four-day weekend — expect a lot of colleagues to do exactly that.
Book off: 7 Dec 2026
How the holiday year works in Spain
How people take the days
The puente — bridging a Tuesday or Thursday holiday — is close to an institution, and when two dates fall in the same week people talk about an acueducto. Early December, with 6 and 8 December together, is the most reliable long break of the year outside August.
If you're visiting
Bars and restaurants stay open, often busier than usual; shops and banks close. Local fiesta days can shut a single town while the next one trades normally, so check the municipal calendar, not just the national one.
If you live here
Your holiday list depends on where you are registered, not where your employer is based. Regional governments publish the following year's calendar in the autumn — that's the document that actually governs your days off.
Nearby countries
Neighbours of Spain — see their holidays, or compare the two calendars side by side.
What these days actually mean
Observance, business closures and transport impact for the next few dates.
All Saints Day
1 Nov 2026
- Observance
- Families visit cemeteries with flowers and candles. Quiet and reflective rather than festive.
- Business
- Banks and most shops closed in Catholic-majority countries; florists do their busiest day of the year.
- Transport
- Extra services to cemeteries; heavy intercity travel over the weekend.
Constitution Day
6 Dec 2026
- Observance
- Marks the 1978 referendum that ratified the democratic constitution. Paired with the Immaculate Conception two days later, it produces the puente de diciembre, the biggest domestic travel weekend of the Spanish winter.
- Business
- Banks and public offices close; shops may open under a legal exception for the December period.
- Transport
- Heavily booked trains and flights across the 6 to 8 December window — book well ahead.
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Immaculate Conception
8 Dec 2026
- Observance
- A Marian feast on 8 December, marked with processions in Seville and Granada and the start of Christmas decorations everywhere.
- Business
- Banks close; retail generally opens for Christmas trading.
- Transport
- Sunday timetables and heavy return traffic at the end of the puente.
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Christmas Day
25 Dec 2026
- Observance
- The central Christian winter feast; in most countries the household gathering matters more than the church service.
- Business
- Near-total closure of retail, offices and banks. Expect the preceding afternoon to shut early too.
- Transport
- Skeleton or suspended services in many countries. Book intercity travel well ahead.