Festivities Days in Lanzarote

For this year 2020 the labour calendar of Lanzarote has a total of 12 festive days, which eight are of a national character, that is to say that they will be common to the rest of the communities of Spain according to the calendar of the General Direction of Labour, and four autonomic, which are decided by the Governments of each Autonomic Community and that therefore they can be different in each one of them.

With respect to the four regional days, the festivity of November 1st has been substituted since this year it is a Sunday to add May 30th, the Canary Islands Day festivity, to the calendar. At the same time the feast of July 25th (Santiago Apostle) will be changed so that each island will set the traditional holiday to each of them, in Lanzarote, will be on September 15th. 

It should be noted that each municipality of the island will also set two days with local holidays, which will also count as holidays in the respective work calendars of each municipality.  You must take into account these dates as both the commercial areas, restaurants, etc. as well as public offices may suffer changes in their schedule and even close during that day. 

Therefore, according to the application of state legislation, the following days are public holidays on the island of Lanzarote: 

January 1st  (Wednesday) New Year
January 6th (Monday) Epiphany of the Lord
April 9th (Thursday) Holy
April 10th (Friday) Holy
May 1st (Friday) Labor Day
May 30th (Saturday) Canary Islands Day
August 15th (Saturday) Assumption of the Virgin
September 15th (Tuesday) Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, patron saint of Lanzarote
October 12th (Monday) Día de la Hispanidad
December 7th (Monday) Constitution Day transfer
December 8th (Tuesday) Immaculate Conception
December 25th (Friday) Nativity of the Lord