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Spanish working days

Counts the working days between two dates and works out when a deadline falls. It does it under the three regimes that coexist in Spanish law, because the same two dates give three different answers depending on which kind of deadline you are counting.

The two dates. Counting starts the day after the first one.
Working days
43
Calendar days
60
Days excluded
17

From 1 August 2026 to 30 September 2026.

Working days in the interval under each regime
Administrative (art. 30, Act 39/2015)43 days
Civil court (art. 130 LEC)22 days
Civil or contractual (art. 5 Civil Code)60 days
See which rule removed each day
Days excluded, by the rule that excluded them
Saturdays and Sundays17
National public holidays0
Regional or local holidays you added0
August (civil court only)21
24 December to 6 January (civil court only)0
  • Art. 30.6: if the day is a working day where you live and not at the seat of the authority, or the other way round, “it shall be treated as non-working in every case”. One town’s local holiday extends the deadline for both sides.
  • Art. 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute guarantees only four holidays across the whole of Spain: New Year, 1 May, 12 October and Christmas. The rest is set by each year’s calendar and a region may substitute them.
  • This result uses the national calendar and no regional or local one. Add yours below if the interval touches any.
Add your own holidays
1

Three regimes, three answers

The administrative regime (article 30.2 of Act 39/2015) drops Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The civil-court regime (article 130.2 of the Civil Procedure Act) also drops the whole of August and every day from 24 December to 6 January. The civil regime (article 5.2 of the Civil Code) drops nothing. Pick the one that applies to you and you will see all three at once.

2

Counting starts the following day

Article 30.3 of Act 39/2015 and article 5.1 of the Civil Code say the same thing: the day of notification does not count and the period starts the next day. That is why the calculator shows the first day counted as well as the deadline.

3

Periods in months are not counted in days

They fall due “date to date”, on the same day of the month, and if that month has no equivalent day they expire on its last day. One month from 31 January falls due on 28 February, not on 3 March.

4

The holidays no register lists

Article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute guarantees only four holidays across the whole of Spain: New Year, 1 May, 12 October and Christmas. The rest is set each year by the labour calendar, and the regions may substitute them within a ceiling of fourteen, two of which are local. That is why your regional and local holidays are an input rather than our data: article 30.7 leaves that calendar in each region’s own official gazette.

Worked example

From 1 August to 30 September 2026 there are 60 calendar days. Administratively that is 43 working days; in civil court proceedings it is 22, because the whole of August disappears; and under the civil regime it is all 60, because nothing is deducted there. One question, three answers, nearly a month apart at the extremes.

Frequently asked questions

Is a working day the same as a business day?
Not necessarily. “Hábil” is a legal term about counting a deadline and each statute defines it; whether anyone actually works that day is a different question. Article 30.8 of Act 39/2015 says so outright: declaring a day working or non-working “does not in itself determine the operation of the public administration’s workplaces… or their working hours”.
Does August count or not?
It depends on the deadline. Administratively August is an ordinary month and deadlines run through it. In civil court proceedings the whole of August is non-working (article 183 LOPJ and article 130.2 of the Civil Procedure Act), except in proceedings declared urgent, where article 133.2 puts August back into the count. And for a contractual deadline August counts like any other month.
Are 24 and 31 December working days?
Administratively yes, unless your region has declared them holidays. In court, no: Organic Act 14/2022 removed them from article 182 LOPJ and at the same time widened article 183 to “every day from 24 December to 6 January of the following year, both inclusive”. Anyone who reads only article 182, which is the one nearly everybody quotes, gets December wrong.
What happens if the deadline falls on a Saturday?
Administratively and in court it is extended to the next working day (article 30.5 of Act 39/2015 and article 133.4 of the Civil Procedure Act). A civil or contractual deadline has no equivalent extension: the Civil Code does not provide one, so such a deadline can genuinely expire on a Saturday or a Sunday.
What if my town has a holiday and the authority’s seat does not?
Article 30.6 of Act 39/2015 settles it in one line: if the day is a working day in the municipality or region where you live and non-working at the seat of the authority, or the other way round, “it shall be treated as non-working in every case”. A single town’s local holiday takes the day out of both sides’ deadline.
Why do you not have my region’s holidays?
Because there is no national register to read them from. Article 30.7 makes each region publish its own calendar of non-working days in its own official gazette, and that calendar also covers the local authorities in its territory: two days per municipality across more than eight thousand municipalities. Yours go in as an input, and the breakdown tells you how many days they cost you.
How many public holidays are there in a year?
Fourteen at most, two of them local (article 37.2 of the Workers’ Statute). Of those fourteen, only four are guaranteed across the whole of Spain by that same article: New Year, 1 May, 12 October and Christmas. The rest may be replaced by each region’s own traditional holidays.
Does counting start on the day of notification or the day after?
The day after, under all three regimes. Article 30.3 of Act 39/2015, article 5.1 of the Civil Code and article 133.1 of the Civil Procedure Act all exclude the first day. Article 133.1 adds that the day it falls due does count, and expires at midnight.

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