Work calendar 2027: holidays and long weekends that are already known

As of today, September 10, 2026, the definitive 2027 work calendar has not yet been published in the Official State Gazette (BOE). There is no record of any state resolution titled “List of public holidays for the year 2027” nor a new royal decree setting the national work calendar for that year. Available information indicates that processing is advanced at the regional and local levels, but the Ministry of Labor has not yet finalized the state resolution compiling all these decisions.

What has been published so far

The institutional database shows numerous precedents of state regulations on work calendars or public holidays, such as Royal Decree 1550/1988, of December 23, which approved the national work calendar for 1989, accessible in the BOE (text in the BOE). There are also resolutions from the Directorate General of Labor for subsequent years (for example, 2006) and, more recently, the Resolution of October 17, 2025 that published the list of public holidays for 2026, reported by the Ministry of Labor in a press release (list of public holidays 2026).

In the case of 2027, a specific search in the BOE and institutional databases up to September 10, 2026, returns no state provision publishing the complete and definitive list of public holidays for that year.

What specialized press says about the 2027 calendar

The newspaper Demócrata has published a monographic analysis, “2027 Work Calendar: Holidays and Long Weekends by Regions” (article in Demócrata). This text highlights two key ideas for your question:

• Several autonomous communities have already approved and published their 2027 work calendars in their respective official gazettes. The article details, for example, the regional holidays set in Andalusia, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Galicia, or the Valencian Community, and reminds that each municipality will then add two local holidays.
• As of July 19, 2026, Demócrata itself notes that the complete state calendar is not yet recorded in the BOE and that “the BOE will compile the calendars sent by all communities once regional processing is complete.” As a reference, it recalls that the state resolution for 2026 was published on October 17, 2025.

Therefore, the press confirms that the regional process is ongoing or very advanced, but the final compilation act in the BOE for 2027 has not yet occurred.

Current status of state processing

With the available information, the status can be described as follows:

• Regional and local level: several communities (Galicia, Euskadi, Andalusia, Valencian Community, among others) and numerous municipalities have already approved their 2027 holidays and published them in their official gazettes. These calendars are fully valid in their respective territories.
• State level (BOE): there is not yet a resolution from the Directorate General of Labor or equivalent provision publishing the state list of public holidays for 2027. The last comparable milestone is the resolution for 2026, published in October 2025.
• Processing status: from a practical point of view, the Ministry of Labor is presumably in the phase of receiving, verifying, and consolidating the regional calendars and information on local holidays to issue the single state resolution. There is no indication that this resolution has been signed or sent for publication as of September 10, 2026.

What to expect in the coming months

The recent pattern suggests that the state resolution publishing the “list of public holidays” is issued and inserted in the BOE at the end of the previous year. For 2026, as recalled by the Ministry of Labor and Demócrata itself, the publication occurred on October 17, 2025. It is reasonable to expect a similar calendar for 2027 (October or, in any case, the last quarter of 2026), although the exact date depends on when the file is formally closed at the Ministry.

Until the BOE publishes that 2027 resolution, the operational reference will be:

• The basic state holidays provided in general regulations (Workers’ Statute and Royal Decree 2001/1983, among others).
• The regional calendars already approved and published in the official gazettes of each community.
• The local holidays that each municipality is setting and submitting for regional publication.

In summary: the 2027 work calendar is practically defined in many communities and municipalities, but the definitive state work calendar has not yet been recorded and published as such in the BOE as of the indicated date.

The Directorate General of Labor (DGT) does not "decide" the public holidays of the year on its own, but it does have a central and well-defined role in the legal articulation, coordination, and official publication of the national work calendar. Its competencies are framed within the Workers’ Statute, Royal Decree 2001/1983, and the organizational regulations of the Ministry of Labor.

1. Basic legal framework of the work calendar

The core regulation is in article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute (Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, consolidated text of the ET):

• It sets a maximum of 14 public holidays per year, paid and non-recoverable, of which two are local.
• It requires respecting as national holidays Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, May 1 (Labor Day), and October 12 (National Day of Spain).
• It allows the Government to move certain national holidays to Monday if they fall midweek.
• It recognizes the autonomous communities’ power to substitute certain national holidays with their own traditional ones and, if necessary, add a recoverable holiday when they cannot set all their traditional holidays within the 14-day limit.

This scheme is developed in articles 45 and 46 of Royal Decree 2001/1983, of July 28, on working hours, special working days, and rest periods (BOE-A-1983-20906), which:

• List the national holidays and specify which are non-substitutable and which can be changed by the autonomous communities.
• Regulate the annual submission by the autonomous communities and by Ceuta and Melilla of their public holidays to the Ministry of Labor.
• Provide that the state labor administration gives publicity in the BOE to the set of national, regional holidays and the basic rules on local holidays.

2. Specific competencies of the Directorate General of Labor

Based on this general legal framework, the annual resolutions of the DGT clearly define its functions. For example, the Resolution of October 23, 2023, which publishes the list of public holidays for 2024 (BOE-A-2023-22014), and the Resolution of October 15, 2024 for 2025 (BOE-A-2024-21316), state that:

• The autonomous communities and Ceuta and Melilla send to the Ministry the list of their public holidays (art. 45.4 of RD 2001/1983).
• The purpose of this submission is to give publicity through publication in the BOE.
• It is expressly stated that the Directorate General of Labor is competent to order the publication of this list of public holidays in the BOE, “with the aim of facilitating general knowledge throughout the national territory of the set of public holidays.”
• This competence is linked to the Ministry’s organizational royal decrees (for example, RD 499/2020 and RD 502/2024), which assign the DGT functions regarding regulation of labor relations, working hours, schedules, and public holidays.

In summary, the DGT’s competencies regarding the national work calendar are mainly:

• Reception and coordination: centralizes the annual submission of public holidays agreed by the 17 autonomous communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
• Legal verification: checks that these lists comply with the legal framework:
  • maximum of 14 holidays per territory (art. 37.2 ET),
  • distinction between non-substitutable national holidays and substitutable ones,
  • correct use of the autonomous substitution power and, if applicable, the possible additional recoverable holiday,
  • alignment with provisions on local holidays in art. 46 of RD 2001/1983.
• Preparation of the “national” reference calendar: from this information and the state framework (ET + RD 2001/1983), the DGT prepares the annex integrating all holidays:
  • those of national scope,
  • those of each autonomous community and Ceuta and Melilla,
  • and references to the existence of two local holidays, published in regional or provincial gazettes.
• Official publication in the BOE: the DGT issues each year a resolution in which:
  • it sets out the factual background and legal grounds (art. 37.2 ET, arts. 45 and 46 RD 2001/1983, Ministry’s organizational structure),
  • and resolves to order the publication of the list of public holidays in the Official State Gazette.
• Function of publicity, legal certainty, and standardization: the DGT’s annual resolution is the piece that converts the partial decisions of the central government, autonomous communities, and municipalities (in their respective parts) into a unified national work calendar.

3. What the Directorate General of Labor does not do

It is also important to highlight the limits of its competencies:

• The DGT does not normatively set which national holidays exist; this is done by law and royal decrees such as RD 2001/1983.
• It does not decide the regional or local holidays; these are approved by regional governments and municipal councils within the state framework.
• The calendar of non-working days for administrative purposes of the General State Administration (Saturdays, Sundays, and certain holidays) is approved by resolution of the Secretary of State for Public Administration, although it relies on the list of public holidays published by the DGT.

In conclusion, the Directorate General of Labor acts as the technical and competent body within the Ministry of Labor that coordinates, controls, and officially publishes the national work calendar, ensuring that the mosaic of state, regional, and local decisions is translated each year into a unique, clear, and legally secure framework for companies, workers, and administrations.

The basic regime for labor public holidays in Spain is set by the State in article 37.2 of the consolidated text of the Workers’ Statute Law (Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, of October 23, BOE). From this framework, autonomous communities and municipalities have decision-making margins, but subject to specific limits and requirements.

1. Maximum limit of holidays and distribution of competencies

Article 37.2 establishes that:

• Public holidays, paid and non-recoverable, cannot exceed 14 per year.
• Of these 14, two must necessarily be local (of each municipality).
• The following must always be respected as national holidays: Christmas (December 25), New Year’s Day (January 1), May 1 (Labor Day), and October 12 (National Day of Spain).

The practical distribution is:

• State: sets a block of national holidays within the maximum of 14.
• Autonomous communities: complete the calendar up to that maximum and may substitute certain national holidays with their own, under conditions.
• Municipalities: have two local holidays included in that maximum of 14.

2. Requirements for autonomous communities

According to article 37.2 ET itself, autonomous communities must respect the following requirements when setting their holidays:

• Numerical limit: they must always act “within the annual limit of 14 public holidays”. That is, the sum of national, regional, and local holidays (non-recoverable) cannot exceed that cap.
• Respect for the four basic national holidays: they cannot remove Christmas, New Year’s Day, May 1, or October 12 as public holidays.
• Own traditional holidays: the provision indicates that communities “may designate those holidays that by tradition are their own”. Legally, this requires that the regional holiday has an accreditable traditional root (historical, patronal, institutional festivity, etc.).
• Substitution mechanism: to introduce their traditional holidays, communities must substitute national holidays that the Government determines by regulation, “and in any case, those moved to Monday”.
• Moving to Monday: like the Government, communities may use the power to move certain holidays to Monday, to rationalize long weekends and extend weekends.
• Additional recoverable holiday: if in a given year a community “cannot establish one of its traditional holidays because it does not coincide with a Sunday or a sufficient number of national holidays”, it may add one more holiday “with recoverable character” beyond the maximum of 14. That is, that day is worked or compensated according to applicable regulations, but is configured as a holiday for other purposes.

Based on this state framework, each community approves its own regional work calendar by law, decree, or order, published in its official gazette (DOG, DOGC, BOCM, etc.).

3. Requirements for municipalities (local holidays)

The Workers’ Statute only reserves “two [holidays] shall be local”, without detailing the municipal procedure. The specific development is established in the regional labor and work calendar regulations, but generally implies:

• Determination by the municipality: the municipal council (or competent body) must agree on two local holidays, usually linked to traditions or patron saints of the municipality.
• Communication to the autonomous community: the agreement is sent to the regional ministry competent in labor matters, which incorporates it into the regional work calendar.
• Quantitative limit: the municipality cannot exceed the two local holidays expressly reserved by article 37.2.

4. Publication and communication of the holiday calendar

The communication and publicity scheme is tiered:

• Autonomous communities: approve and publish each year in their official gazette the regional work calendar, which includes the non-substitutable national holidays, the regional holidays they have determined, and the local holidays communicated by municipalities.
• State: with the information from the communities, the General State Administration prepares the national work calendar. This is published in the BOE by resolution of the Directorate General of Labor, as shown, for example, by the Resolution of October 11, 2005 which published the 2006 work calendar.

The specific deadlines and internal communication methods between municipalities and communities, and between these and the State Administration, are set in the regional regulations and administrative instructions, but must always respect the basic framework of article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute: a maximum of 14 annual holidays, two of them local, and respect for the four non-disposable national holidays.