Public holidays in Spain, 2026

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.

The longest working month is July at 23 days; the shortest is May 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.

Compared with 2025, which held 254 working days, 2026 is identical in length.

Against the 204 countries covered here for 2026, 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 49.

The holidays produce 4 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 3 days, from 3 April 2026 to 5 April 2026, built around Good Friday. A further 3 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.

1 of this year's holidays sits on a different calendar date than in 2025: Good Friday. Dates that move cannot be carried forward from last year's planning spreadsheet, which is the most common way a holiday is missed.

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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