Next year, of the holidays, five fall on Monday or Friday, which will make it possible to spend the weekend. As soon as the year begins, on January 6 (Friday) Three Kings Day or Epiphany of the Lord, although it is one of the regional holidays that territories can be exchanged, it is celebrated by all the autonomous communities so that the first week of the year can be enjoy the first long weekend of 2023.
The autonomous communities can substitute the rest of the Monday following the national holidays that coincide on a Sunday by incorporating others that are traditional for them, as well as the option between the celebration of the festival of San José (March 19) or that of Santiago Apostle (July 25) in its corresponding territory.
But also, New Year, January 1, falls on a Sunday and some autonomous communities spend the holiday on the following Monday, January 2. They are, specifically, Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León and Murcia.
The rest of the autonomies do not have a holiday and it is moved to another day of the year to complete the 12 holidays in total, eight of them non-replaceable national holidays: April 7 (Good Friday), May 1 (Labor Day), August (Assumption of the Virgin), October 12 (National Holiday), November 1 (All Saints), December 6 (Spanish Constitution Day), December 8 (Immaculate Conception) and December 25 (Nativity of the Lord or Christmas). The last month of 2023 will also give the option of “taking a bridge” of five days for those who have the option of taking a day off, since the 6th falls on Wednesday and the 8th falls on Friday.
But also, next year, of the holidays, five fall on Monday or Friday, which will allow us to spend the weekend: in addition to Three Kings Day, on April 7 (Good Friday), on May 1, which in 2023 it falls on a Monday; December 25, which will also be held on Monday, and the aforementioned December 8, which will be Friday.
And this year 2022, once the December “aqueduct” has passed, there remains the only common holiday, Christmas Day, which this year also falls on a Sunday, and which, being a non-replaceable holiday, is moved to Monday 26 in all autonomous communities.
