The Official State Gazette (BOE) has made public today the 2024 work calendar, which includes the holidays for next year. According to the resolution of the General Directorate of Labor, there will be 12 national holidays, of which 9 will be celebrated jointly throughout Spain. In addition, workers will be able to enjoy two regional and two local holidays.
Likewise, in the coming year there will be four common long weekends in all the autonomous communities. Specifically, the national holidays that have been set in the work calendar and that will be celebrated jointly throughout the country are the following:
January 1st. New Year. Monday.
January 6th. Epiphany of the Lord. Saturday.
March 29. Holy Friday. Friday.
May 1st. Work party. Wednesday.
August 15th. Assumption of the Virgin. Thursday.
October 12 °. National Holiday of Spain. Saturday.
November 1st. All Saints. Friday.
6th of December. Spanish Constitution Day. Friday.
December 25th. Nativity of the Lord. Wednesday.
There are other common holidays that the autonomous communities can move to another day. This is the case of Thursday, March 28 (Holy Thursday), which will be a holiday throughout Spain except in the Valencian Community and Catalonia. However, all the autonomous communities have decided to keep Saturday, January 6, Three Kings’ Day, as a holiday, which is considered replaceable in the work calendar.
The regulations also allow the autonomous communities to replace the rest on the Monday following the national holidays that coincide on Sunday with the incorporation of others that are traditional to them, as well as the option of celebrating San José (March 19) or Santiago Apóstol (25 July) in its corresponding territory.
Thus, December 9 (the Monday after the Immaculate Conception) will be a holiday in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Murcia and Melilla. While Thursday, July 25 (Santiago Apóstol) will only be a holiday in Cantabria, Galicia, Madrid, Navarra and the Basque Country, and Tuesday, March 19 (San José) will only be a holiday in Murcia and the Valencian Community.
In the communities that have chosen to celebrate Holy Thursday (March 28), which is almost all of them, there will be a four-day long weekend, and in five communities (Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Navarra, the Basque Country and La Rioja) this long weekend will be five days since they have decided to also give Easter Monday (April 1) as a holiday.
The BOE resolution specifies that in Catalonia and the Valencian Community, in addition to the 12 paid and non-recoverable national holidays, a recoverable paid holiday has been established, which means that if workers enjoy this additional holiday, they will have to recover the benefits. hours not worked. In the case of the Valencian Community, the recoverable paid holiday has been set for Monday, June 24 (San Juan), while Catalonia must choose between January 6, April 1, June 24 and June 26. December (Saint Stephen).
