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:
- Friday, 1 January – New Years’s Day (NAT)
- Wednesday, 6 January – Epiphany / Three Kings’ Day (NAT)
- Friday, 02 April – Good Friday (NAT)
- Monday, 05 April – Easter Monday (CAT)
- Saturday, 1 May – Labor Day (NAT)
- Monday, 24 May – Whit Monday / Pentecost Monday (BCN)
- Thursday, 24 June – Midsummer’s Day / St John’s Day (CAT)
- Saturday, 11 September – Catalan National Day (CAT)
- Friday, 24 September – La Mercè (BCN)
- Tuesday, 12 October – Spanish National Holiday (NAT)
- Monday, 01 November – All Saints’ Day (NAT)
- Monday, 6 December – Spanish Constitution Day (NAT)
- Wednesday, 8 December – Feast of the Assumption (NAT)
- Saturday, 25 December – Christmas (NAT)
Now that you know the holidays, you can plan accordingly.
Source: Ajuntament Barcelona
