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A preview of the Spain bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2020, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers.

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10 Oct 2018 Spain 2019 Galicia Public Holidays Announced (Diario Oficial de Galicia-DOG) The government of Spain's Autonomous Region of Galicia (Consejo de la Xunta de Galicia) has published its annual official list of regional public holidays ("calendario laboral") in Galicia for the upcoming calendar year 2019. • 07 Oct 2018 Spain 2019 Balears Public Holidays Gazetted (Dirección General de Trabajo Y Salud Laboral-Govern de les Illes Balears) The Consell de Govern of Spain's autonomous region of the Balears (ámbito autonómico de las Islas Baleares) has gazetted its previously-announced annual calendar of 2019 regional and national public holidays in Spain's autonomous region of the Balears (calendario laboral). • 29 Sep 2018 Spain 2019 Melilla Public Holidays Announced (Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla-BOME) The Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla, in an emergency session (Sesión ejecutiva extraordinaria y urgente), has released its calendario laboral, the annual official list of 2019 non-working public holidays in Spain's autonomous region of Melilla, in the Boletín Oficial de Melilla (BOME). • 25 Sep 2018 Spain 2019 Madrid Public Holidays Announced (Consejo de Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid-Madrid) The Consejo de Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid has announced that the regional government of Spain's autonomous region of Madrid had approved the annual list of official 2019 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain's Autonomous Comunidad de Madrid. • 14 Sep 2018 Spain 2019 Castilla y León Public Holidays Announced (Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Castilla y León-Valladolid) The Consejo de Gobierno de la Junta de Castilla y León has announced its annual list of official regional non-working public holidays in Spain's Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León (calendario de fiestas laborales en el ámbito de la Comunidad de Castilla y León) for the calendar year 2019. • 13 Sep 2018 Spain 2019 Castilla La-Mancha Public Holidays Gazetted (Diario Oficial de Castilla-La Mancha-DOCM) The previously-announced annual list of regional non-working public holidays in Spain's Autonomous Región of Castilla La-Mancha for the upcoming calendar year 2019 ("calendario laboral de las fiestas laborales de carácter retribuido y no recuperable en el año 2019, en Castilla-La Mancha") has been gazetted in the Diario Oficial de Castilla-La Mancha. • 31 Aug 2018 Spain 2019 Extremadura Public Holidays (Diario Oficial de Extremadura-DOE) The Consejo de Gobierno de la Junta de Extremadura of Spain's Autonomous Region of Extremadura has published its annual list of regional public holidays (Calendario Laboral) for the calendar year 2019 in Extremadura. • 28 Aug 2018 Spain 2019 Ceuta Public Holidays Gazetted (Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta-BOCCE) The recently-announced annual list of 2019 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in the Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, as announced by the legislative assembly of Spain's autonomous region of Ceuta (Ilustre Pleno de !a Asamblea de Ceuta), has been officially gazetted in the BOCCE (Boletín Oficial de la Ciudad de Ceuta, "Resolución de 9 de agosto de la Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, por el que se aprueba el calendario laboral para el año 2019.", BOCCE de 21 de agosto de 2018). • 26 Aug 2018 Spain 2019 Murcia Public Holidays Gazetted (Dirección General de Trabajode la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia-Murcia) Spain's autonomous region of La Murcia through the Dirección General de Trabajode la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia has gazetted the calendar of official Spanish public holidays in Murcia (calendario laboral) for the upcoming calendar year 2018, which it had unofficially announced, late last spring. • 05 Aug 2018 Spain 2019 Valencia Public Holidays Gazetted (Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana-Valencia) The Consell de la Generalitat Valenciana has confirmed and gazetted the previously announced and amended official calendar of 2019 non-working public holidays (calendario laboral) in Spain's autonomous region of Valencia. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Spain public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Administrative Division: For the purpose of public holidays, Spain is divided into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas), and two African autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas). Their abbreviations are: • • Andalucía (AN), • Aragón (AR), • Asturias (O), • Balearic Islands (IB), • Basque Country (PV), • Canary Islands (CN), • Cantabria (S), • Castilla-La Mancha (CM), • Castilla y León (CL), • Catalonia (CT), • Ceuta (CE), • Extremadura (EX), • Galicia (GA), • La Rioja (LO), • Madrid (M), • Melilla (ML), • Murcia (MU), • Navarra (NA), • Valencia (VC), • as set out in ISO 3166-2:ES. • National and Regional Public Holidays: Spanish regions, towns, villages and cities have additional public holidays of their own. There is a base of, usually 9, public holidays that are common to all regions of Spain, plus Epiphany and Maundy Thursday which each region can replace with one or two region-specific public holidays. Regions also have the option of adding a regional public holiday, without removing any of the common ones, or Epiphany and Maundy Thursday. • Epiphany is, in theory, with Maundy Thursday, one of the 2 public holidays that each region can replace with another. However, in practice, over the last 30 years there has been only one occasion, in Catalonia, when Epiphany was not observed somewhere in Spain. • Maundy Thursday is usually not a public holiday in Catalonia. • Weekend Public Holidays: Public holidays that occur on a weekend are not systematically moved to the following Monday. • However, when a public holiday falls on a Thursday or Tuesday, it is common practice to "make the bridge" (hacer puente) by taking off the Friday or Monday so creating a very long weekend. When this happens you may find businesses running on short staff or smaller family run business closed for the full period. • Spain International Codes ES and ESP (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .es (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Spain information and news: Bank of Spain (Spain central bank), UnitedHealthcare Global (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Spain maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Spain), and Wikipedia (includes Spain commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Spain, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Spain that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Spain were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules).

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2020 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Spain, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Spain, before planning any trip to Spain. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.

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