Spain Public Holidays 2027

1 May and 25 December fall on a Saturday. As national holidays, they are not moved to another day. In several collective disputes in 2026, Spain's National High Court (Audiencia Nacional) recognised the right to a day off in lieu when the holiday falls on a Saturday that is already a rest day. The rulings can still be appealed and the Supreme Court has yet to settle the issue. We cover this in whether you get a day back when a holiday falls on a Saturday.

15 August is a Sunday. Under Article 37.2 of the Workers' Statute (Spain's main employment law), the day off moves to Monday, and that is what Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, the Canary Islands, Castilla y León and Madrid do. Extremadura moves it to 11 October and the other regions replace it with a holiday of their own.

La Diada in Catalonia (11 September) and Valencian Community Day (9 October) also fall on a Saturday. There is more detail in which 2027 holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday.

12 October is a Tuesday, so Monday 11 October sits between the weekend and the holiday. In Extremadura that Monday is already a holiday.

6 December is a Monday and 8 December is a Wednesday. Tuesday 7 December falls in between, so taking it off gives you an unbroken break from Saturday 4 to Wednesday 8.

Friday 1 January, Easter and Monday 1 November also make long weekends. Each region also has its own bridge days, such as Friday 8 October in the Basque Country, Friday 25 June in Catalonia and Friday 28 May in Castilla-La Mancha.

On top of its region's holidays, each municipality sets up to 2 local holidays. They are paid and the hours do not have to be made up (Article 46 of Royal Decree 2001/1983). They are not published in the BOE but in each region's or province's official gazette, usually in the last few months of the previous year (some, such as the Canary Islands, as early as the summer).

That is why two workplaces in the same region can have different calendars. Before you finalise a workplace's calendar, add the local holidays of the municipality where it is based, not those of the company's registered office.

Article 34.6 of the Workers' Statute requires every company to draw up its own work calendar each year and display a copy somewhere visible in every workplace.

That calendar lists the workplace's national, regional and local holidays, its working hours and how working time is spread across the year. It has to match the annual hours in your collective agreement (convenio colectivo) and what later goes into your mandatory time records (registro de jornada).