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Today in Catalonia
Today's date and the answers are worked out in your browser, on Catalan time.
What to know before you head out today: whether it is a public holiday, whether there is a strike, how Rodalies trains are running, how full the reservoirs are, what fuel costs and what the weekend brings. Each answer links the full page and the official source.
Is today a public holiday?
Next Catalonia-wide public holidays in the official calendar, from 30 October 2026: Tuesday 8 December 2026 (Immaculate Conception), Friday 25 December 2026 (Christmas Day), Saturday 26 December 2026 (Saint Stephen's Day) and Friday 1 January 2027 (New Year's Day).
Source: the Generalitat's official calendar of public holidays and the 2026 local holiday order (DOGC núm. 9565, de 17.12.2025), read on 30 October 2026.
Is there a strike today?
Strikes called, on our list checked on 30 October 2026: indefinite doctors' strike (Metges de Catalunya), from Wednesday 28 October 2026; Ouigo train drivers' strike (SEMAF), Friday 30 October and Monday 2 November 2026; Ouigo train drivers' partial stoppages (SEMAF), Friday 6 November, Monday 9 November, Friday 4 December and Tuesday 8 December 2026; Renfe train drivers' strike (SEMAF), Tuesday 10 November and Thursday 12 November 2026; 24-hour general strike, Wednesday 11 November 2026; education strike (USTEC·STEs, CGT), Thursday 26 November 2026.
Source: the unions' calls and the operators' notices, checked on 30 October 2026.
Rodalies trains: any notices?
Rodalies de Catalunya's official notices load here, live, when the page opens.
Source: Rodalies de Catalunya service status (Renfe open data when it does not answer).
How full are the reservoirs?
78.3% full in the ACA reading of 28 Oct 2026. Today's loads live.
Source: Catalan Water Agency (ACA) daily open data (the nine reservoirs of Catalonia's internal basins; the Ebro basin's are not included).
Fuel prices today
The Ministry's prices load here, live: they change several times a day.
Source: Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition, station prices (CC BY 4.0).
This weekend
This weekend's dates, the next public holiday and the next long weekend are worked out in your browser from the official calendar.
Source: the Generalitat's official calendar of public holidays (Catalonia-wide days).
Is there snow in the Pyrenees?
Snow depth on the ground at Meteocat's mountain stations, with the time of each reading. Season: 25 October to 15 May.
Source: Catalan Meteorological Service (Meteocat), automatic weather stations.
How this page works
Today's date is worked out in your browser on Catalan time, so the answers change at midnight even if the page has not been republished.
Holidays come from the Generalitat's official calendar and the 2026 local holiday order, for the 917 municipalities that have local holidays; each town's page in Catalan and Spanish has its whole calendar. Strikes come from our list of calls, checked on 30 October 2026 on the organisers' and operators' websites.
Rodalies notices, reservoir water and fuel prices are read from the official source when you open the page, cached for minutes. When a source does not answer, the page says so and links it: it never shows old data as today's.
Sources
Official sources of the data on this page.
- Calendari oficial de festes laborals a Catalunya — Departament d'Empresa i Treball, Generalitat de Catalunya(read on 30 October 2026)
- Ordre EMT/208/2025, d'11 de desembre, per la qual s'estableix el calendari de festes locals a Catalunya per a l'any 2026 — DOGC núm. 9565, de 17.12.2025(read on 30 October 2026)
- Service status (live notices) — Rodalies de Catalunya(live)
- Quantitat d’aigua als embassaments de les Conques Internes de Catalunya — Agència Catalana de l'Aigua (ACA)(live)
- Instalaciones de suministro de combustibles a vehículos y embarcaciones con venta pública — Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico(CC BY 4.0, live)