The four Spanish stock exchanges and the fixed income market will operate normally next Monday, 12 October, a national holiday. BME does not include this date in its closure calendar for 2026.
The four Spanish stock exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia) and the national fixed income market will open next Monday 12 October despite the celebration of National Day, as confirmed by Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) through the agency EFE.
The holiday is not included in the closure calendar that BME has set for 2026, a year in which the Spanish market will only close on five days. The last closure of the year was on 1 May, International Workers' Day, while on 15 August, Assumption Day, the Stock Exchange already operated normally.
Of the five planned holidays, four have already been taken: 1 January (New Year), 3 April (Good Friday), 6 April (Easter Monday), and 1 May. The only closure remaining will be on Friday, 25 December, Christmas.
Additionally, both 24 December (Christmas Eve) and 31 December (New Year's Eve) the market will operate only half a session, as is customary on those dates.
This year, the Spanish Stock Exchange will have one less holiday than in 2025, when there were six, because 26 December, which BME considered non-working last year, falls on a Saturday in 2026.
Since 1998, the stock exchanges of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia have maintained a unified calendar with the rest of Europe to avoid distortions in prices and limit the possibilities of arbitrage between markets. The gradual reduction of holidays began in 2005 to align the number of trading days with European exchanges, which traditionally had fewer closures than the Spanish.
"The Spanish market will therefore operate next Monday, the 12th, also known as National Day, with total normality," according to the information released by EFE.
Investors trading in equities or fixed income will be able to do so normally throughout the day on 12 October. The next holiday when the Stock Exchange will remain closed will be 25 December.
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