Public Holidays in Barcelona

There are plenty of local, regional and national public holidays in Spain. Knowing the public holidays is important especially if you are a planner.

There are three types of holidays in Barcelona:

• National holidays where it’s a holiday everywhere in Spain (NAT)
• Regional holidays where it’s a holiday in a particular region or community (CAT in the case of Catalunya)
• Local holidays where it’s a holiday only in one region or city (BCN for Barcelona)

Here you have all the 14 holidays in the city of Barcelona:

• 1 January – New Years’s Day (NAT)
• 6 January – Epiphany / Three Kings’ Day (NAT)
• 15 April – Good Friday (NAT)
• 18 April – Easter Monday (CAT)
• 24 June – Midsummer’s Day / St John’s Day (CAT)
• 15 August – Assumption of Mary (NAT)
• 24 September – La Mercè (BCN)
• 26 September
• 12 October – Spanish National Holiday (NAT)
• 01 November – All Saints’ Day (NAT)
• 6 December – Spanish Constitution Day (NAT)
• 8 December – Feast of the Assumption (NAT)
• 25 December – Christmas (NAT)

Now that you know the holidays, you can plan accordingly.

Source: Ajuntament Barcelona