If you or a family member is attending one of the best international schools in Spain, you might want to know more about the observances and holidays in Spain during the years 2018-2019. You can check our calendar to keep up to date with the celebrations wherever you are in the world.
Here is a list of public holidays in Spain:
– Christmas Holidays: 24 December 2018 – 7 January 2019
– Easter Holidays: 1-2 weeks between 12-29 April 2019
– Summer Holidays: 10-12 weeks between 19 June – 13 September 2019
– Christmas Holidays: 19 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
These are national holiday days that coincide with school holidays in Spain:
– 12 October 2018: Spanish National Day (falls on a Saturday in 2018 and a Sunday in 2019 – some regions will offer a public holiday on the following Monday)
– 1 November 2018: All Saints’ Day
– 6 December 2018: Spanish Constitution Day
– 1 May 2019: Labor Day
– 15 August: Assumption of Mary (always falls within the summer break)
Here is a comprehensive list of holidays in Spain in 2019:
– New Year’s Day: 1-Jan
– Epiphany: 6-Jan
– Epiphany Holiday: 7-Jan
– Andalucía Day: 28-Feb
– Balearic Day: 1-Mar
– Father’s Day: 19-Mar
– St. Joseph’s Day – Galicia, Murcia, Navarra, Valenciana: 19-Mar
– Maundy Thursday – except Catalonia and Valenciana: 18-Apr
– Good Friday: 19-Apr
– Easter Monday: 22-Apr
– Castile and León Community Day: 23-Apr
– St Georges Day – Aragon: 23-Apr
– Labour Day: 1-May
– Community Festival of Madrid: 2-May
– Mother’s Day: 5-May
– Feast of St. Isidro – Madrid only: 15-May
– Galician Literature Day: 17-May
– Canary Islands: 30-May
– Castilla-La Mancha: 31-May
– La Rioja Day: 10-Jun
– Day of Murcia (observed): 10-Jun
– Feast of St Anthony – Ceuta only: 13-Jun
– Corpus Christi: 20-Jun
– Feast of St John the Baptist -Catalonia, Valenciana: 24-Jun
– St. James’ Day: 25-Jul
– Day of Cantabria Institutions: 28-Jul
– Our Lady of Africa – Ceuta only: 5-Aug
– Aid El Kebir – Ceuta, Melilla only: 12-Aug
– Assumption Day: 15-Aug
– Ceuta Day: 2-Sep
– Day of Asturias: 9-Sep
– Day of Extremadura: 9-Sep
– National Day of Catalonia: 11-Sep
– Lady of Aparecida: 15-Sep
– Day of Melilla: 17-Sep
– Valencian Community Day: 9-Oct
– Hispanic Day: 12-Oct
– All Saints’ Day: 1-Nov
– Our Lady of the Almudena: 9-Nov
– Feast of St Francis Xavier: 3-Dec
– Constitution Day: 6-Dec
– Immaculate Conception Day: 8-Dec
– Immaculate Conception Holiday: 9-Dec
– Christmas Day: 25-Dec
– Day after Christmas: 26-Dec