Thursday, March 28

The 2023 work calendar: 12 national holidays, 9 common throughout Spain

We already have a work calendar and its corresponding holidays for 2023. The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published this Friday the resolution of the General Directorate of Labor, which includes a total of 12 national holidays, of which nine will be celebrated jointly throughout Spain, one more than this year, reports Europa Press.

They will be a party throughout Spain in 2023:

–January 6: “Epiphany of the Lord” or Three Kings Day (Friday).

–April 7: Good Friday (Friday).

–May 1: Labor Day (Monday).

–August 15: Assumption of the Virgin (Tuesday).

–October 12: National Holiday of Spain (Thursday).

–November 1: All Saints (Wednesday).

–December 6: Day of the Spanish Constitution (Wednesday).

–December 8: Immaculate Conception (Friday).

–December 25: Christmas (Monday).

There are common holidays that the autonomous communities can move to another day, recalls the news agency. This has happened with Thursday, April 6 (Holy Thursday), which will be a holiday throughout Spain except in the Valencian Community and Catalonia, but not in the case of Friday, January 6, Three Kings’ Day, which all the communities have decided to keep as a holiday.

Holidays by autonomous communities

To the national holidays, two regional and two local holidays must always be added, up to a total of 16 holidays per year.

Among the faculties recognized to the autonomous communities is also the possibility of substituting the rest of the Monday following the national holidays that coincide on Sunday by the incorporation of others that are traditional to them, as well as the option between the celebration of the feast of San José (March 19, also Father’s Day) or that of Santiago Apóstol (July 25) in its corresponding territory.

Thus, on January 2 (Monday after New Year) will be a holiday in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León and Murcia; Tuesday, July 25 (Santiago Apóstol) will only be a holiday in Castilla y León, Galicia, Navarra and the Basque Country, and the Monday following Saint Joseph’s Day will only be a holiday in Madrid.

Several long weekends

The celebration of several festivals on Monday or Friday, therefore attached to Saturday and Sunday, will allow next year to have some longer weekends than usual in the whole of Spain.

This is the case with January 6 (Friday); April 7 (Good Friday), May 1, which in 2023 falls on a Monday; December 25, which will also be held on a Monday, and December 8, which will be a Friday and which, added to December 6 (Wednesday), will allow workers who can take time off on Thursday the 7th to enjoy a five-day bridge .

In the communities that have chosen to celebrate Holy Thursday (April 6), which are almost all, there will be a four-day bridge. And those workers who can afford to take a day off could extend the weekend by celebrating the Assumption of the Virgin (August 15) on Tuesday and the Hispanic Day party (October 12) on Thursday.



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