Public holidays 2016 in Spain

On this page you will find the Public holidays 2017 in Spain

Please note that January 2nd and Ascension Day are not public holidays in Spain. Except for Madrid, the purely local public holidays are not indexed below. There are two or three of them in each city or village, which isn't so much, but if you travel, you might expect to spend the full year in public holidays…

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Date Festivity Area  
FRI January 1st New Year Spain Calpe's skyline after sunset, in winter, seen from a hill above
Winter over Calpe
WED January 6th Epiphany, Twelfth Day Spain
TUE February 2nd Our Lady of Candlemas Tenerife (Canary Is.)
MON February 29th Day of Andalusia Andalusia
TUE March 1st Balearic Islands Day Balearic Islands
SAT March 19th St.-Joseph Valencian Cty.
Murcia
Melilla
THU March 24th Maundy Thursday Spain except
Catalonia
FRI March 25th Good Friday Spain
MON March 28th Easter Monday Balearic Islands
Catalonia
Valencian Cty.
Navarra
Basque Country
La Rioja
SAT April 23rd Saint-George Aragon
Castilla y León
End of April, blossomed orange trees near Benidoleig on the Costa Blanca countryside in Spain
Spring in Benidoleig: blossomed orange trees in April
MON May 2nd May 1st following day Andalusia
Aragon
Asturias
Canary Isl.
Extemadura
Madrid
Castilla y León
MON May 16th Whit Monday Catalonia
TUE May 17th Day of the Letters Galicia
THU May 26th Corpus Christi Castilla La Mancha
MON May 30th Canary Day Canary Islands
TUE May 31st Day of the Region Castilla La Mancha
THU June 9th Day of the Regions La Rioja
Murcia
Panoramic view of the Mediterranean from a roof terrace near Santa Pola, on the Costa Blanca in Spain
Santa Pola: the Mediterranean summer
FRI June 24th Saint-John Catalonia
Galicia
in many other places, better ask
MON July 25th Saint-James Madrid
Navarra
Galicia
Basque Country
La Rioja
THU July 28th Day of the Institutions Cantabria
FRI August 5th Our Lady of the Snows La Palma (Canary Is.)
MON August 15th Assumption Spain
FRI September 2nd Day of Ceuta Ceuta
THU September 8th Day of the Provinces

Day of Our Lady of the Pine
Asturias
Estremadura
Gran Canaria
Spain: Costa Blanca, the Las Rotas area in Denia, seen from another roof terrace, in autumn
Autumn in Las Rotas, Denia
MON September 12th Sacrifice Day (Aïd al Kebir عيد الكبير)
Sacrifice Day (Aïd al-Adha عيد الأضحى)
Ceutay<
Melilla
THU September 15th Day of the Community
Our Lady of the Sorrows
Cantabria
Lanzarote (Canary Is.)
FRI September 16th Our Lady of La Peña Fuerteventura (Can.I.)
SAT September 24th Our Lady of the Kings El Hierro (Canary Is.)
MON October 3th Our Lady of Guadeloupe La Gomera (Can. Is.)
FRI October 7th 80th years of 1st govt. Basque Country
WED October 12th Day of Hispanity Spain
TUE November 1st All Saints Spain Madrid in winter: under a blue sky, the road toward Madrid Barajas airport and to Saragossa
The winter in Madrid, on the road to Saragossa
SAT December 3rd Community Day, sources diverge; better ask before planning business in: Navarra
TUE December 6th Constitution Day Spain
THU December 8th Immaculate Conception Spain
MON December 26th Saint-Stephen Spain except:
Canary Isl.
Galicia
Basque Country
La Rioja
FRI January 6th, 2017 Epiphany, Twelfth Day Spain

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