Use this page to check Spain's national public holidays: a continuously updated calendar covering both past and upcoming dates. Some holidays fall on a fixed calendar date every year — an Independence or Republic Day, for instance. Others, governed by the Easter calculation, the Islamic lunar calendar, or an "nth weekday of the month" rule, shift from year to year, so each year carries its own actual date rather than an assumed repeat. Jump straight to the live calendar below, or read on for how the dates are worked out.
Why This Matters: Public holidays in Spain directly affect on-the-ground staffing and call-centre coverage planning. This calendar is a standard reference point for market research teams tracking regional business cycles working with partners, offices or operations in Spain.
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Live public holiday calendar for Spain, embedded directly from Google's official public calendar — always shows Google's current data.
◀ Showing upcoming holidays — use the back arrow in the calendar's toolbar to see earlier dates this year.
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Public holidays generally split into two kinds: fixed-date ones that land on the same calendar day every year — a founding or independence anniversary, for instance — and movable ones whose date shifts annually because they follow a different calendar system entirely. Spain's calendar can include holidays governed by the Easter computus that many Christian-majority countries use, the Hijri lunar calendar behind Islamic observances such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, or a lunisolar cycle behind holidays like Lunar New Year. As a country in Europe, Spain sits in a region where both kinds of calendar are common — which is exactly why the live calendar above lists each year's actual computed date rather than assuming a repeat.
Worth separating, too: a true public holiday is a statutory non-working day — banks, schools and government offices close by law or long-standing custom. An observance is different — culturally or religiously notable, but without a mandated closure (Valentine's Day and Earth Day are common examples worldwide). This page focuses specifically on public holidays, the ones that actually affect scheduling.
Spain isn't divided into separate states or provinces the way some larger federated nations are, so its public holiday calendar applies uniformly nationwide — the dates shown above hold the same way across the whole country, without a regional layer to account for.
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| 👥 Population Rank | #32 of 249 |
| 📏 Area World Rank | #52 |
| 🏙️ Population Density | 96.3 / km² |
| 🌊 Land / Water Split | 98.7% / 1.3% |
