Spain bank holiday calendar 2021
When you live in Spain there always seems to be some kind of holiday or fiesta day, whether nationally or locally. Many expats call bank holidays in Spain “Red Days” because they are always marked in red on calendars and in diaries.
It’s important to know when the bank holidays are in Spain as usually everything will be closed on these days. Often businesses and schools will take an extra day off before or after the bank holiday if it falls on a Tuesday or Thursday in order to make a long weekend. This is called a puente or bridge.
Bank holidays often vary from region to region and each village will often have their own local holidays, but the national bank holidays will be the same for the whole of Spain. If you want to make sure you always know when there’s a bank holiday in Spain, we’ve put together a Spain bank holiday calendar for 2021…
January
1st January – Año Nuevo (New Year’s Day) – National
2nd January – Reconquest Day – Granada
6th January – Día de los Reyes Magos (Epiphany / Three Kings) – National
23rd January – San Ildefonso – Toledo
March
1st March – Andalucia regional holiday – Andalucia
1st March – Balearic Islands regional holiday – Balearic Islands
19th March – San José – Basque Country, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre & Valencia
April
1st April – Jueves Santo (Holy Thursday) – National except Catalonia
2nd April – Viernes Santo (Good Friday) – National
5th April – Lunes de Pascua (Easter Monday) – Balearic Islands, Basque, Country, Cantabria, Catalonia, La Rioja, Navarre & Valencia
23rd April – Aragon regional holiday – Aragon
23rd April – Castile and León regional holiday – Castile & León
May
1st May – Día del Trabajo (Labour Day, Workers’ Day or May Day) – National
3rd May – Madrid regional holiday – Madrid
15th May – San Isidro – Madrid
17th May – Galician literature day – Galicia
30th May – Canary Islands regional day – Canary Islands
31st May – Castile-La Mancha regional holiday – Castile-La Mancha
June
3rd June – Fiesta del Corpus Christi (Corpus Chrisiti) – Castile-La Mancha
9th June – La Rioja regional holiday – La Rioja
9th June – Murcia regional holiday – Murcia
14th June – San Antiono – Ceuta
24th June – San Juan – Catalonia, Ceuta & Valencia
July
25th July – Feast of San Jaime – Basque Country
28th July – Day of the Institutions – Cantabria
August
5th August – Santa Maria de Africa – Ceuta
16th August – Asunción de la Virgen (Assumption of Mary) – National
September
2nd September – Day of Ceuta – Ceuta
8th September – Asturias regional holiday – Asturias
8th September – Extremadura regional holiday – Extremadura
8th September – Our lady of victories – Meililla
11th September – National day of Catalonia – Catalonia
15th September – Cantabria regional holiday – Cantabria
17th September – Day of Melilla – Melilla
October
9th October – Valencian regional holiday – Valencia
12th October – Fiesta Nacional de España – National
November
1st November – Día de los Santos – National
9th November – Virgin of Almudena – Madrid
December
3rd December – San Francisco Javier – Navarre
6th December – Día de la Constitución – National
8th December – Día de la Immaculada Concepción – National
25th December – Christmas Day – National
26th December – St Stephen’s Day – Catalonia
We hope you find this Spain bank holiday calendar for 2021 useful. Don’t forget to bookmark this page so you don’t miss any important dates!
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