The resolution of the General Directorate of Labor published today in the Official State Gazette (BOE) that contemplates the definitive work calendar resolves that they will be holidays throughout Spain on Friday, January 6 (Epiphany of the Lord), April 7 (Good Friday ), Monday, May 1 (Labor Festival), Tuesday, August 15 (Assumption of the Virgin), Thursday, October 12 (National Holiday of Spain), Wednesday, November 1 (All Saints), Wednesday December 6 (Day of the Spanish Constitution), Friday December 8 (Immaculate Conception) and December 25 (Nativity of the Lord).
In addition, all the autonomous communities will celebrate their respective regional and local festivities up to a total of 14 holidays.
Of these 12 days, 8 are non-replaceable national holidays and are collected in all the autonomous communities: Good Friday, Labor Festival, Assumption of the Virgin, Spanish National Holiday, All Saints, Day of the Spanish Constitution, the Immaculate Conception and Nativity (Christmas).
In addition to these 8 holidays, all the autonomous communities will celebrate Three Kings Day or Epiphany of the Lord (January 6), one of the national holidays that the State allows to change for another regional one.
The autonomous communities can substitute the rest of the Monday following the national holidays that coincide on Sunday by incorporating others that are traditional to them, as well as the option between the celebration of the feast of San José (March 19) or that of Santiago Apostle (July 25) in its corresponding territory.
The celebration of several parties on Monday or Friday, attached to Saturday and Sunday, will allow next year to have some longer weekends than usual. Next year, of the holidays, five fall on Monday or Friday, which will allow the weekend to be bridged: January 6 (Friday); April 7 (Good Friday), May 1, which in 2023 falls on a Monday; on December 25, which will also be held on a Monday, and on 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 take a five-day bridge.
In the autonomous 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 ask for a day off could extend the weekend for the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin (August 15) on Tuesday and the Hispanic Day party (October 12) on Thursday.
Next year, New Year falls on a Sunday and five communities have chosen to make it a holiday on the Monday following January 2: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León and Murcia.
Of the other festive days, until completing the 12, all the autonomous communities also celebrate Holy Thursday (April 6) except Catalonia and the Valencian Community.
They will celebrate Easter Monday (April 10) in the Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Navarra, the Basque Country, La Rioja and the Valencian Community, while only the day of Santiago Apóstol (July 25) will be a holiday in Castilla y León, Galicia, Navarra and País Basque.
Madrid changes this festival to March 20, the Monday following San José; Extremadura, for February 21, Carnival Tuesday; Castilla-La Mancha, for Corpus Christi, June 8, and San Juan, June 24, will be a holiday in Catalonia and the Valencian Community (in exchange for Holy Thursday).
The list of festivities common to the entire country next year (eight non-replaceable and one movable) is as follows:
Until the end of the year there are still five common holidays, including an “aqueduct” in December that includes, in addition to two almost simultaneous holidays, two other non-school days in many autonomous communities.
In the islands of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, the local labor holidays of 2023 will be the following: in El Hierro: on September 25, the feast of Our Lady of the Kings.
In Fuerteventura: on September 15, the feast of Nuestra Señora de la Peña;
In Gran Canaria: on September 8, the festival of Nuestra Señora del Pino;
In La Gomera: October 9, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe;
In La Palma: on August 5, the feast of Our Lady of Las Nieves;
In Lanzarote and La Graciosa: on September 15, the feast of Our Lady of the Volcanoes;
In Tenerife: February 2, festivity of the Virgen de la Candelaria.
In Catalonia, the festival of December 26 (San Esteban) is replaced by June 17 (Fiesta de Arán).
In the Autonomous City of Ceuta, as a sufficient number of national holidays do not coincide with Sunday to establish one of the traditional festivities of the city of Ceuta, it will be a holiday on September 2: Ceuta Day.
