Official holidays in Spain, general calendar
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The State Calendar of Spain contains 14 holidays, including both mandatory and regional festive days. Official holidays in Spain are not unified and have local festive days for each autonomous region of the country.
Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions (provinces), each with its own traditions, cuisine, music, and other cultural values, as well as its regional (local) holidays or festivals (as they are commonly called in Spain), in addition to national and religious Catholic holidays.
Official holidays in Spain, general calendar:
DAY | HOLIDAY |
1 January | New Year's Day (Spanish: Año Nuevo) |
6 January | Three Kings' Day, Epiphany (Spanish: Día de Reyes, Epifanía) |
29 January | Calçotada in Catalonia |
5 February | Carnival weeks in Spain (Spanish: Carnestoltes) / Ash Wednesday (Latin: Dies Cinerum) |
12 February | Saint Eulalia's Day |
28 February | Day of Andalusia (Spanish: Día de Andalucía) |
1 March | Balearic Islands Day (Spanish: Dia de les Illes Balears) |
19 March | Saint Joseph's Day (Spanish: Dia de San José) and Las Fallas de Valencia |
20 March | Palm Sunday (Spanish: Domingo de Ramos) |
24 - 31 March | Holy Week (Spanish: Semana Santa) |
28 March | Maundy Thursday (Spanish: Jueves Santo) |
31 March | Easter (Spanish: Pascua) / Easter Monday (Spanish: Lunes de Pascua) |
14- 20 April | April Fair (Spanish: Feria de Abril) |
23 April | Saint George's Day / Day of Aragon (Spanish: Día de San Jorge, Día de Aragón) |
23 April | Castile and León Day (Spanish: Día de Castilla y León) |
1 May | Labor Day in Spain (Spanish: Día del Trabajador en España) |
2 May | Madrid Day (Spanish: Fiesta de la Comunidad de Madrid) |
15 May | Pentecost |
17 May | Galician Literature Day (Spanish: Día das Letras Galegas) |
30 May | Canary Islands Day (Spanish: Día de las Canarias) |
31 May | Castile-La Mancha Day (Spanish: Día de la Región Castilla-La Mancha) |
31 May | Feast of Corpus Christi in Madrid (Spanish: Corpus Christi) |
16 June | Eid al-Adha in Melilla (Spanish: Celebración del Sacrificio) |
16 June | Eid al-Adha in Melilla (Spanish: Celebración del Sacrificio) |
29 June | Saint John's Day (Spanish: Sant Joan) |
4-6 July | San Fermin / Running of the Bulls in Navarre (Spanish: San Fermin de Navarra) |
July (last Wednesday) | Tomatina in Valencia (Spanish: Tomatina en Valencia) |
15 August | Assumption of Mary (Spanish: Asunción) |
2 September | Ceuta Day (Spanish: Día de Ceuta) |
8 September | Asturias Day (Spanish: Día de Asturias) |
8 September | Extremadura Day (Spanish: Día de Extremadura) |
11 September | Catalonia National Day (Spanish: Festa Nacional de Catalunya) |
15 September | Cantabria Day (Spanish: Día de Cantabria) |
9 October | Valencia Day (Spanish: Dia de la Comunitat Valencia) |
12 October | National Day of Spain (Spanish: Fiesta Nacional de España) |
25 October | Basque Country Day (Spanish: Euskadi Eguna) |
1 November | All Saints' Day (Spanish: Día de todos los Santos) |
9 November | La Almudena |
6 December | Constitution Day (Spanish: Día de la Constitución) |
8 December | Immaculate Conception Day (Spanish: Inmaculada Concepción) |
24 December | Christmas Eve (Spanish: Nochebuena) |
25 December | Christmas (Spanish: Navidad) |
26 December | Saint Stephen's Day (Spanish: Día de Sant Esteban) |
31 December | New Year's Eve |
Looking at the calendar of Spanish holidays, it is not difficult to notice that religious holidays are highly respected in Spain, with many of them elevated to the rank of mandatory national and regional holidays.
