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The dates

• Sunday 1 Nov 2026: Día de Todos los Santos (Spain) / Dia de Todos os Santos (Portugal). It falls on a Sunday this year.
• Monday 2 Nov 2026: a public holiday only in the Spanish regions listed below. In Portugal it is a normal working day in our sources: the mandatory holiday list in the Código do Trabalho has no 2 November.

Spain: where Monday 2 Nov is a holiday

Source: the BOE resolution of 17 Oct 2025 (BOE-A-2025-21667), built from the lists that all 17 autonomous communities, Ceuta and Melilla sent to the Ministry of Labour. Its November row reads "2 Día siguiente a Todos los Santos" and is marked as a national holiday for which the right to substitute it was not used, in these 9 regions:

• Andalucía
• Aragón
• Principado de Asturias
• Canarias
• Castilla-La Mancha
• Castilla y León
• Extremadura
• Comunidad de Madrid
• Comunidad Foral de Navarra

The row is blank for Illes Balears, Cantabria, Cataluña, Galicia, Región de Murcia, País Vasco, La Rioja, Comunitat Valenciana, Ceuta and Melilla. A blank means no 2 Nov holiday in that list; whether you get Monday off anyway depends on your employer. Each municipality can also add up to two local holidays, published in the regional or provincial bulletin (BOE-A-2025-21667, fundamentos de derecho, cuarto), so check your town's calendar. We did not read the regional bulletins one by one.

Portugal: 1 November

Article 234 n.º 1 of the Código do Trabalho, as rewritten by Lei n.º 8/2016 (Diário da República, 1 April 2016), says the mandatory holidays are "1 de janeiro, Sexta-Feira Santa, Domingo de Páscoa, 25 de abril, 1 de maio, Corpo de Deus, 10 de junho, 15 de agosto, 5 de outubro, 1 de novembro, 1, 8 e 25 de dezembro". The same law's article 1 names "o Dia de Todos-os-Santos, a 1 de novembro" among the holidays it restores. We checked the law as published in 2016; later amendments to the Code were not checked, and we found no official rule in these sources that moves a Portuguese holiday that falls on a Sunday.

What is typically closed

• Shops, Spain. Spanish law lets each region decide on which Sundays and holidays shops may open: at least 16 a year by default, never fewer than 10 (Ley 1/2004, art. 4). Some shops set their own days and hours: bakeries, press shops, florists, fuel stations, convenience stores, shops in stations and tourist areas, and small shops under 300 m² (art. 5). Expect many other shops to be closed on a Sunday and, in the regions above, on Monday 2 Nov.
• Public offices, Spain. For deadline counting, the state administration treats Saturdays, Sundays and national non-replaceable holidays as non-working days, plus each region's own holidays (BOE-A-2025-23702). The same resolution says this does not by itself decide whether offices open. Check the office's own notice.
• Banks and shops in Portugal; banks in Spain. We found no official source on opening on these days and list none. Check your bank's app, the shop's website or the door.
• We give no opening hours: they differ by shop, city and region.

Cemetery visits and flowers

In Spain, 1 November is the day families visit relatives' graves with flowers. Madrid's tourist board writes that "Cemeteries in Madrid are full of colour on All Saints' Day" and that visitors bring flowers for relatives buried in graves and niches. In Galicia, the regional tourist board notes the custom of filling cemeteries with flowers. This is a family day: if you walk through a cemetery, go as a quiet visitor.

What people eat

• Huesos de santo. Marzipan "saint's bones" filled with sweet egg yolk. Galicia's tourist board says the first ones seem to have been made in Valencia in the 17th century. Asturias's tourist board says they are sold in all confectioners' shops in autumn.
• Buñuelos. Fritters. Madrid's tourist board repeats the tradition that "for every fritter you eat, a soul is saved from purgatory".
• Castañas. Roasted chestnuts are the centre of the Galician magosto (see our São Martinho and magosto guide). Galicia's tourist board also describes the old custom of chestnut necklaces ("zonchos") on 1 November.
• Portugal: pão-por-Deus. The municipality of Proença-a-Nova's cultural agenda says the custom of children going door to door asking for "pão por Deus" persists in the town and many villages, with children receiving chestnuts, walnuts, figs and sweets. The national heritage inventory notes that Halloween is replacing it in many places, so do not expect it everywhere.

Etiquette

• Dress plainly and keep your voice down in a cemetery; step aside for families.
• Ask before you photograph anyone or any grave.
• Do not touch flowers or objects on graves, and take nothing away.
• This is general courtesy, not a rule from an official source.

If you're alone this weekend

• All Saints long weekend alone: Spain plans, events and the 2 Nov table
• Things to do alone in Madrid
• Things to do alone in Lisbon
• Free things to do alone today in Madrid
• Free things to do alone today in Lisbon

Buy food, medicine and cash on Saturday. For urgent problems call 112 (Spain and Portugal).

FAQ

• Is 1 November 2026 a public holiday in Spain and Portugal? It is a Sunday. In Portugal, 1 November is on the Código do Trabalho list of mandatory holidays (art. 234). In Spain the BOE list for 2026 has no row for 1 November itself and shows Monday 2 November instead, in 9 regions.
• Which Spanish regions have Monday 2 November 2026 off? Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Canarias, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Madrid and Navarra, according to BOE-A-2025-21667. Cataluña, Galicia, País Vasco, Valencia and the other regions have no 2 November entry in that list.
• Will shops and banks be open? It depends on the region, shop type and size. By law Spanish regions pick the Sundays and holidays when shops may open (Ley 1/2004, arts. 4 and 5). We found no official source for bank hours, so check your bank.
• What do people eat on All Saints' Day? In Spain, huesos de santo and buñuelos, and roasted chestnuts in Galicia. In Portugal, children's pão-por-Deus rounds bring chestnuts, nuts, figs and sweets in some places.

Sources

• BOE-A-2025-21667, Resolución de 17 de octubre de 2025, Dirección General de Trabajo, relación de fiestas laborales para 2026 (row "2 Día siguiente a Todos los Santos"): https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2025-21667
• BOE-A-2025-23702, Resolución de 18 de noviembre de 2025, calendario de días inhábiles de la Administración General del Estado para 2026: https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2025-23702
• BOE-A-2004-21421, Ley 1/2004, de 21 de diciembre, de Horarios Comerciales (arts. 4 and 5): https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2004-21421
• Portugal: Lei n.º 8/2016, de 1 de abril, Diário da República, 1.ª série, n.º 64 (arts. 1 and 2; art. 234 n.º 1 Código do Trabalho): https://files.dre.pt/1s/2016/04/06400/0111201116.pdf (also https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=2522&tabela=leis&ficha=1&pagina=1)
• Madrid tourist board (esMadrid), Halloween and All Saints' Day in Madrid: https://www.esmadrid.com/en/halloween-madrid
• Turismo de Galicia, typical desserts for All Saints' Day (huesos de santo, buñuelos, castañas, zonchos): https://blog.turismo.gal/typical-desserts-for-all-saints-day/
• Turismo Asturias, autumn traditions (huesos de santo sold in confectioners' shops): https://www.turismoasturias.es/en/-/blogs/asturias-o-el-otono-en-7-tradiciones-inolvidables
• Turismo Centro de Portugal, Proença-a-Nova municipal cultural agenda, November 2025 (pão por Deus): https://turismodocentro.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-11-Agenda-Cultural-de-Novembro.pdf
• Matriz PCI, Portuguese national intangible heritage inventory (Pão-por-Deus and Halloween): https://matrizpci.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/InventarioNacional/DetalheFicha/617
• Regional bulletins were not read one by one: the regional choices are taken from the BOE resolution, which publishes the lists sent by each community. Local holidays are in the regional or provincial bulletins.

Last checked: 2026-10-23.

Also read: Closed days in November 2026