Today, Monday 2 November 2026, is a non-working day in nine of Spain’s autonomous communities. The substitute date applies because All Saints’ Day (1 November) fell on a Sunday this year, and the regions concerned moved the holiday to Monday in their own calendars. The consolidated holiday schedule for 2026, published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado sets this out.
The following communities are therefore observing a non-working day: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Canary Islands, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura, the Community of Madrid and Navarre. In the other autonomous communities and in the two Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, today remains a normal working day, subject to any local public holidays set at municipal level.
The legal basis is the annual compilation of regional public holidays by the Dirección General de Trabajo, based on notifications from the autonomous communities. The relevant notice for 2026 is the Resolución de 17 de octubre de 2025, published in the Official State Gazette on 28 October 2025. It lists national public holidays and additions or changes set by the regions, making it the authoritative reference for businesses, public authorities and employees.
The arrangements have a direct impact on work and holiday planning for businesses and employees. For deadlines in administrative and court proceedings, if a deadline falls on a non-working day in the relevant jurisdiction, it will generally be moved to the next working day. The state administration takes into account the non-working days specified in the notice, as well as supplementary rules for its own area of operations.
The background is Spain’s established system for coordinating public holidays: the country has national public holidays, some of which cannot be moved, as well as a number of days allocated to the regions. If a national public holiday falls on a Sunday, the regions can set a holiday of their own on an adjacent weekday. This results in different calendars depending on the area. The official publication contains no forecasts of the economic effects or traffic levels today; these would need to be assessed separately. What is clear, however, is that the nine regions named have a long weekend, while the normal working week begins elsewhere.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).