Public Administration sets the non-working days for 2027: seven holidays nationwide

The State Secretariat for Civil Service has approved the 2027 calendar of non-working days for the General State Administration and its public bodies, for the purpose of calculating administrative deadlines. The resolution was signed on November 5, 2026, by the Secretary of State, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, and is published in the Official State Gazette number 284, of November 14, 2026 (BOE-A-2026-23826). The text arrives nearly two months before the start of the fiscal year, as required by the regulations.

The framework is established by article 30.7 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, which grants the State the competence to determine, within its own scope, which days do not count when calculating a deadline. The calendar must also align with the official labor calendar, which was published via the Resolution of October 8, 2026, of the General Directorate of Labor, disseminated in the Official State Gazette on October 13. The resolution is based on Royal Decree 210/2024, of February 27, regarding the organic structure of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service.

Seven non-working days across Spain

The annex of the resolution, identified as the “2027 Calendar of non-working days,” distinguishes three levels. In the first, of general application, all Saturdays and Sundays of the year and non-substitutable national holidays are declared non-working days. These are:

• January 1
• January 6
• March 26
• October 12
• November 1
• December 6
• December 8

To these are added, within the scope of each autonomous community, the holidays that each has determined, and at the local level, those fixed by the respective regional calendars for the entities that make up the Local Administration.

March and August, the months with the most singular days

The territorial distribution is uneven and concentrated in the spring. March accumulates up to five days with differentiated treatment: the 26th is a non-working day across the entire country, while the 25th is so in fifteen communities and in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The 19th affects Galicia, Community of Madrid, Region of Murcia, Comunitat Valenciana, and Chartered Community of Navarra; the 1st, only Andalusia and Illes Balears; and the 29th, Illes Balears, Catalonia, Basque Country, La Rioja, Navarra, and Comunitat Valenciana.

The rest of the year distributes specific holidays among territories. Some examples included in the annex:

• April 23: Aragón and Castilla y León
• May 17: Galicia, Ceuta, and Melilla
• May 27 and 31: Castilla-La Mancha
• June 9: La Rioja and Región de Murcia; June 24: Cataluña
• July 28: Cantabria; August 5: Ceuta; August 16: six communities
• September 8: Principado de Asturias and Extremadura; September 15: Cantabria
• October 7: País Vasco; October 11: Extremadura

Two clarifying notes complete the annex. In Canarias, Decree 115/2026, of June 29, adds island holidays such as February 2 in Tenerife or September 15 in Lanzarote and La Graciosa. In Cataluña, Order EMT/52/2026, of March 25, replaces the March 29 holiday with that of June 17 in the territory of Aran.

A calendar that organizes procedures, not office hours

The resolution itself recalls, based on article 30.8 of Law 39/2015, that declaring a day as a business day or a non-business day does not by itself determine the operation of workplaces, the organization of staff time, or citizen access to registries. In other words, a day marked as non-business for counting purposes may still be a working day in administrative practice, and vice versa.

The calendar will be disseminated in the Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado) and will also be accessible at the General Electronic Access Point, at administracion.gob.es.

The relevance of the text is twofold. For companies, offices, and citizens with open files, it marks the boundary between a procedure submitted on time and one submitted late: a deadline that falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday is automatically moved to the next business day. For those preparing for competitive exams and selection processes convened by the General State Administration, the calendar also conditions the countdown for applications and appeals throughout 2027.

Source: Official State Gazette, no. 284, November 14, 2026, Sec. I. General Provisions, page 153406 (official reference: BOE-A-2026-23826).