When are Spain's public holidays in 2024? This article tells you all of Spain's national and regional holidays for next year.

Spain celebrates a variety of public holidays throughout the year, each with its own cultural and historical significance. Consult here all of the national holidays in Spain in 2024, and plan your year, as knowing Spain's public national and regional holidays is a must for planning breaks away, family events and professional commitments.

As well as Spain's national holidays, each region has specific public holidays. This article will give you an overview of public holidays throughout Spain and the specific public holidays in each autonomous community.

How many public holidays are there in Spain in 2024?

Spain's work calendar for 2024 comprises a total of 12 holidays, with nine being national holidays observed across Spain. Additionally, two regional holidays are included in this total of 12 days.

National holidays in Spain 2024

What are the national celebration days in Spain? Specifically, in 2024 there will be public holidays throughout Spain on Monday 1st January (New Year's Day), Saturday 6th January (Epiphany of the Lord), Friday 29th March (Good Friday), Wednesday 1st May (Labour Day), Thursday 15th August (Assumption of the Virgin), Saturday 12th October (Spanish National Day), Friday 1st November (All Saints Day), Friday 6th December (Day of the Spanish Constitution) and Wednesday 25th December (Christmas Day).

There are other common public holidays that the autonomous communities can move to another day. This has been the case with Thursday 28th March (Maundy Thursday), which will be a public holiday throughout Spain except in Valencia and Catalonia, but not with Saturday 6th January, Epiphany, which all the autonomous communities have decided to maintain.

Among the powers granted to the autonomous communities is also the possibility of substituting the rest on the Monday following national holidays that coincide on a Sunday with the incorporation of others that are traditional for them, as well as the option of celebrating Saint Joseph's Day (19th March) or Saint James' Day (25th July) in their corresponding territory.

Thus, 9th December (the Monday following the Immaculate Conception) will be a public holiday in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castile and Leon, Extremadura, Murcia and Melilla; Thursday 25th July (St James the Apostle) will only be a public holiday in Cantabria, Galicia, Madrid, Navarre and the Basque Country, and Tuesday 19th March (St Joseph's Day) will only be a public holiday in Murcia and the Valencian Community.

1st January 2024

Many countries celebrate 1st January to welcome the new year. In Spain, this holiday has several features that make it special, like the ritual of the twelve grapes, which consists of eating one grape for each chime of the clock at Puerta del Sol in Madrid at midnight on 31st December. This habit is said to bring good luck and prosperity for the year ahead.

29th March 2024

Easter holidays 2024 Spain: 29th March is an important date in the 2024 calendar for Christians, as it is Good Friday, the day commemorating the passion and death of Jesus Christ on the cross. It is a day of mourning, penance and prayer.

In Spain, Good Friday is one of the most important public holidays of the year. Several processions take place in the streets of cities and towns, in which brotherhoods participate, carrying religious figures to the sound of drums and trumpets. These processions attract thousands of the faithful and tourists, religious and non-believers alike.