Public holidays in Blanes 2026 and 2027

Blanes has two local public holidays in 2026: Tuesday 7 April and Friday 21 August. They come on top of the 12 public holidays that apply across Catalonia, so the town has 14 in all, every one of them in the table below. The dates are set by Order EMT/208/2025 (DOGC, 17 December 2025): the Catalan government's list of local holidays, drawn up from each council's proposal.

Local holidays in 2027: 30 March and 26 July, approved by the council (full council meeting of 25 June 2026), pending the DOGC order. The 2027 calendar

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All public holidays in Blanes in 2026

Public holidays in Blanes in 2027

The local holidays in Blanes in 2027 will be Tuesday 30 March and Monday 26 July: approved by the council (full council meeting of 25 June 2026), pending the DOGC order. They come on top of Catalonia's 12 public holidays for 2027, already official (Order EMT/52/2026); all of them are in the table below.

The order of the Catalan government's Department of Enterprise and Labour that makes local holidays official, from each council's proposal, is not out yet; the one for 2026 appeared in the DOGC on 17 December 2025. Once it is published, this page will give its dates.

Source: L'Ajuntament de Blanes ret homenatge pòstum a l'exregidora Amparo Ardanuy al ple municipal — Ajuntament de Blanes, 26 de juny de 2026. Read on 30 October 2026.

Work calendar on the Department of Enterprise and Labour website (in Catalan) · DOGC, the official gazette

Is it a public holiday in Blanes on…?

The dates people ask about most, answered for Blanes. Each one links to its page for the whole of Catalonia, with every town that has a local holiday that day.

Strikes are a separate matter: a strike does not turn the day into a holiday. What runs and what does not: strikes in Catalonia today.

What closes on a public holiday in Blanes

Shops

On Sundays and public holidays, shops on the general timetable may open on only ten days a year. Blanes is not among the councils that chose their own (Resolution EMT/4342/2025), so the default ten apply: the eight of the general calendar plus 11 January and 8 December (Order EMT/77/2025, articles 1 and 6). In 2026 they are:

• Sunday 4 January
• Sunday 11 January
• Saturday 15 August
• Monday 12 October
• Sunday 29 November
• Sunday 6 December
• Tuesday 8 December
• Sunday 13 December
• Sunday 20 December
• Sunday 27 December

Tuesday 7 April, a local holiday, is not one of them: shops on the general timetable stay closed.

Friday 21 August, a local holiday, is not one of them: shops on the general timetable stay closed.

Whatever the town, they must stay closed on 1 and 6 January, Easter Sunday and Monday, 1 May, 24 June, 11 September and 25 and 26 December (Llei 18/2017, article 36.2.d).

Allowed to open does not mean open: each shop decides. Bakeries, pastry shops, convenience stores, florists, pharmacies and shops inside stations, among others, are outside these limits, and so are shops in municipalities declared tourist areas, during the approved period (Llei 18/2017, article 37). Whether Blanes has such a declaration, and for which months, is not part of the official calendars this page is built from.

Shops open on Sundays and holidays in Catalonia, 2026

Schools

There are no classes on Blanes's local holidays: the school calendar counts the Catalonia-wide holidays and the town's local ones as days off. Each school also picks four days of its own, so two schools in the same town can close on different days (Order EDF/66/2026).

Work

Public holidays are paid and are not made up later. A local holiday follows the workplace, not your home: if you work in Blanes, you get its local holidays wherever you live. If you have to work that day, your collective agreement says how it is compensated.

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