Public Holidays in Spain
Find out all the Public Holidays in Spain. If you live in Spain or you just need to know the Spanish Public Holidays, here is a list of them.
Spain will have a total of eight national holidays, four regional holidays and two municipal days in 2016. So get organized and start planning some weekends away.
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| Date | Holiday name | Reason | Where? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | New Year's Day | National holiday | |
| Jan 1 | Feast of the Holy Family | Observance | |
| Jan 6 | Epiphany | National holiday | |
| Jan 22 | Martyr Vicente's Feast | Local holiday | Valencia |
| Jan 29 | St. Valero's Feast | Local holiday | Zaragoza |
| Feb 10 | Ash Wednesday | Observance | |
| Feb 28 | Day of Andalucía | Local holiday | Andalusia |
| Feb 29 | Day of Andalucía (observed) | Local holiday | Andalusia |
| Mar 1 | Day of the Balearic Islands | Local holiday | Balearic Islands |
| Mar 5 | Fifth of March | Local holiday | Zaragoza |
| Mar 19 | San Jose | Common Local holidays | Aragon, Castile-Leon, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Melilla, Murcia, Navarre, Basque Country, Valencia |
| Mar 20 | March equinox | Season | |
| Mar 20 | Palm Sunday | Observance | |
| Mar 24 | Maundy Thursday | Common Local holidays | 15 states |
| Mar 25 | Good Friday | National holiday | |
| Mar 27 | Daylight Saving Time starts | Clock change/Daylight Saving Time | |
| Mar 28 | Easter Monday | Local holiday | Catalonia, La Rioja, Navarre, Basque Country, Valencia |
| Mar 28 | Easter Monday | Common Local holidays | Catalonia, La Rioja, Navarre, Basque Country, Cantabria, Valencia |
| Apr 23 | Day of Aragón | Local holiday | Aragon |
| Apr 23 | St George's Day | Local holiday | Catalonia |
| Apr 23 | Castile and León Day | Local holiday | Castile-Leon |
| May 1 | Labor Day / May Day | National holiday | |
| May 1 | Mothers' Day | Observance | |
| May 2 | Labor Day observed | National holiday | 14 states |
| May 2 | Day of Madrid | Local holiday | Madrid |
| May 15 | Feast Day of St Isidore | Local holiday | Madrid |
| May 15 | Whit Sunday/Pentecost | Observance | |
| May 16 | Whit Monday | Local holiday | Barcelona |
| May 17 | Galicia Literature Day | Local holiday | Galicia |
| May 26 | Corpus Christi | Local holiday | Castile-La Mancha, Madrid |
| May 30 | Day of the Canary Islands | Local holiday | Canary Islands |
| May 31 | Canaries day observed | Local holiday | Canary Islands |
| May 31 | Day of Castile-La Mancha | Local holiday | Castile-La Mancha |
| Jun 9 | Day of Murcia | Local holiday | Murcia |
| Jun 9 | Day of La Rioja | Local holiday | La Rioja |
| Jun 13 | San Antonio | Local holiday | Ceuta |
| Jun 20 | June Solstice | Season | |
| Jun 24 | Saint John the Baptist Day | Local holiday | Catalonia, Galicia |
| Jul 25 | Feast of Saint James the Apostle | Common Local holidays | Castile-Leon, Canary Islands, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, M, Navarre, Basque Country |
| Jul 28 | Day of the Institutions | Local holiday | Cantabria |
| Aug 5 | The Day of Our Lady of Africa | Local holiday | Ceuta |
| Aug 14 | The Day of Cantabria | Local holiday | Cantabria |
| Aug 15 | Assumption of Mary | National holiday | |
| Sep 2 | Day of the Independent City of Ceuta | Local holiday | Ceuta |
| Sep 8 | Day of Asturias | Local holiday | Asturias |
| Sep 8 | Day of Extremadura | Local holiday | Extremadura |
| Sep 8 | Virgin of the Victory | Local holiday | Melilla |
| Sep 11 | Day of Catalonia | Local holiday | Catalonia |
| Sep 12 | Eid-al-Adha | Local holiday | Melilla |
| Sep 13 | Eid-al-Adha | Local holiday | Ceuta |
| Sep 15 | Nuestra Señora de la Bien Aparecida | Local holiday | Cantabria |
| Sep 17 | Day of Melilla | Local holiday | Melilla |
| Sep 22 | September equinox | Season | |
| Oct 7 | 80th anniversary of the constitution of the Basque Government in Guernica | Local holiday | Basque Country |
| Oct 9 | Day of the Valencian Community | Local holiday | Valencia |
| Oct 12 | Hispanic Day | National holiday | |
| Oct 30 | Daylight Saving Time ends | Clock change/Daylight Saving Time | |
| Nov 1 | All Saints' Day | National holiday | All except |
| Dec 3 | Day of Navarre | Local holiday | Navarre |
| Dec 6 | Constitution Day | National holiday | All except Andalusia, Aragon, Ceuta, Extremadura, La Rioja, ML, Murcia, Asturias, Valencia |
| Dec 8 | Immaculate Conception | National holiday | |
| Dec 21 | December Solstice | Season | |
| Dec 24 | Christmas Eve | Observance | |
| Dec 25 | Christmas Day | National holiday | |
| Dec 26 | Christmas Day observed | Common Local holidays | 12 states |
| Dec 26 | St Stephen's Day | Local holiday | Barcelona, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Murcia |
| Dec 31 | New Year's Eve | Observance |
