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Public holidays in Spain, 2025

Spain observes 10 nationwide public holidays in 2025. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 254 days.

2025 2026 2027 2028
10Public holidays
254Working days
104Weekend days
3Fall on a weekend
2,032Hours at 8 per day

Every public holiday in 2025

Spain, 2025. Dates marked as falling on a weekend do not create an extra day away from work.
Date Day Holiday Scope
Wed, 1 Jan Wednesday New Year's Day
Año Nuevo
Nationwide
Mon, 6 Jan Monday Epiphany
Día de Reyes / Epifanía del Señor
Nationwide
Fri, 28 Feb Friday Day of Andalucía
Día de Andalucía
ES-AN
Sat, 1 Mar Saturday Weekend Day of the Balearic Islands
Dia de les Illes Balears
ES-IB
Thu, 17 Apr Thursday Maundy Thursday
Jueves Santo
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
Fri, 18 Apr Friday Good Friday
Viernes Santo
Nationwide
Mon, 21 Apr Monday Easter Monday
Lunes de Pascua
ES-CT, ES-IB, ES-RI, ES-NC, ES-PV, ES-VC
Wed, 23 Apr Wednesday Castile and León Day
Día de Castilla y León
ES-CL
Wed, 23 Apr Wednesday Day of Aragón
San Jorge (Día de Aragón)
ES-AR
Thu, 1 May Thursday Labour Day
Fiesta del trabajo
Nationwide
Fri, 2 May Friday Day of Madrid
Fiesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
ES-MD
Sat, 17 May Saturday Weekend Galician Literature Day
Día das Letras Galegas
ES-GA
Fri, 30 May Friday Day of the Canary Islands
Día de Canarias
ES-CN
Sat, 31 May Saturday Weekend Day of Castilla-La Mancha
Día de la Región Castilla-La Mancha
ES-CM
Mon, 9 Jun Monday Day of La Rioja
Día de La Rioja
ES-RI
Mon, 9 Jun Monday Day of Murcia
Día de la Región de Murcia
ES-MC
Thu, 19 Jun Thursday Corpus Christi ES-CM
Tue, 24 Jun Tuesday St. John's Day
Sant Joan
ES-CT, ES-VC
Fri, 25 Jul Friday Santiago Apóstol ES-GA, ES-PV
Mon, 28 Jul Monday Day of the Cantabrian Institutions
Día de las Instituciones de Cantabria
ES-CB
Fri, 15 Aug Friday Assumption
Asunción
Nationwide
Mon, 8 Sep Monday Day of Asturias
Día de Asturias
ES-AS
Mon, 8 Sep Monday Day of Extremadura
Día de Extremadura
ES-EX
Thu, 11 Sep Thursday National Day of Catalonia
Diada Nacional de Catalunya
ES-CT
Mon, 15 Sep Monday Feast of Our Lady of Bien Aparecida
Festividad de la Bien Aparecida
ES-CB
Thu, 9 Oct Thursday Day of the Valencian Community
Dia de la Comunitat Valenciana
ES-VC
Sun, 12 Oct Sunday Weekend National Day of Spain
Fiesta Nacional de España
Nationwide
Sat, 1 Nov Saturday Weekend All Saints Day
Día de todos los Santos
Nationwide
Sat, 6 Dec Saturday Weekend Constitution Day
Día de la Constitución
Nationwide
Mon, 8 Dec Monday Immaculate Conception
Inmaculada Concepción
Nationwide
Thu, 25 Dec Thursday Christmas Day
Navidad
Nationwide
Fri, 26 Dec Friday St. Stephen's Day
Feast of Saint Stephen
ES-CT

22 further dates are observed in some regions only and are not counted in the working day totals above.

Working days month by month

Calendar days less weekends and nationwide public holidays.
Month Calendar days Weekend Holidays Working days Hours
January 31 8 2 21 168
February 28 8 0 20 160
March 31 10 0 21 168
April 30 8 1 21 168
May 31 9 1 21 168
June 30 9 0 21 168
July 31 8 0 23 184
August 31 10 1 20 160
September 30 8 0 22 176
October 31 8 0 23 184
November 30 10 0 20 160
December 31 8 2 21 168
Year 365 104 7 254 2,032

Reading these figures

The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Spain. Only nationwide holidays are deducted; a date observed in one region alone still counts as a working day here, because a national figure that moved with regional calendars would describe nobody accurately.

3 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: National Day of Spain (12 Oct), All Saints Day (1 Nov), Constitution Day (6 Dec). Whether these are compensated with a substitute day depends on national rules rather than on the calendar, so confirm before planning around them.

The longest working month is July at 23 days; the shortest is November at 20. That spread of 3 days matters for anything billed or accrued monthly, which is why payroll and capacity plans that assume an even year drift by the end of it. The thinnest quarter is Q1, carrying 62 working days across January, February, March.

Against the 204 countries covered here for 2025, Spain's 10 nationwide holidays put it below the median of 12, around the 25th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 48.

The holidays produce 4 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 3 days, from 4 January 2025 to 6 January 2025, built around Epiphany. A further 2 working days are stranded between a holiday and a weekend, where one day of leave buys a break of four days or more. The full breakdown is here.

Notes on Spain

The Spanish calendar is built in three layers. A national list is set centrally, the autonomous
communities may substitute some of those dates for their own, and each municipality adds two
local days. No worker receives more than fourteen public holidays in a year, but which fourteen
depends on both the region and the town, so two colleagues in the same company can be off on
different days.

This page counts the national layer only. Expect the real figure in any given office to differ
by a handful of days, and expect the local days in particular to be invisible from outside:
they are frequently patron saint festivals that appear on no national list.

The other Spanish habit worth planning around is the puente. When a holiday falls on a Tuesday
or a Thursday, the intervening Monday or Friday is very widely taken as leave, and in some
sectors it is effectively assumed. Those days are not holidays and are not deducted here, but a
capacity plan that ignores them will be optimistic.

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