Lanzarote’s official public holidays for 2021 have recently been finalised, and we’ve printed them below to save you the trouble of heading into town to do some shopping only to find everything closed except the church.
There are 14 public holidays in the year, and a few of them – such as Christmas Day or Good Friday, will be familiar to every European. 11 of them are national days celebrated throughout Spain, one is Lanzarote’s island holiday, and each of the seven municipalities of the island get to choose two days of their own this year. That’s because Canary Day on 30th May is not a holiday in 2021, as it falls on a Sunday.
Puentes (bridges) are when a public holiday lands before or after a weekend, giving the opportunity for a three- or four day break. There are three-day puentes in January, August, November and early December; a four-day puente at Easter ,and many will extend the early December holidays into a five-day break.
Lanzarote’s tourist economy means that shops, supermarkets and bars may stay open in the resorts on many holidays, but “local” towns and villages will usually close down for the day.
To find out which duty chemist is open on any given holiday, go to www.coflp.org and enter the date and the relevant municipality. For example, the duty chemist in Tias on Good Friday next year is the one at C/Roque Nublo 9 in Puerto del Carmen’s old town.
Schools obviously have very different holidays, and should already have supplied pupils and parents with holiday information for the academic year that ends in June.
National Holidays
1st January New Year’s Day
6th January Epiphany
1st April Easter Thursday
2nd April Good Friday
1st May International Workers’ Day
16th August Assumption
12th October Spain’s National Day
1st November All Saint’s Day
6th December Constitution Day
8th December Immaculate Conception
25th December Christmas Day
Island holiday
15th September Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Municipal holidays
Arrecife
16th February Carnival Tuesday
25th August San Ginés
San Bartolomé
16th February Carnival Tuesday
24th August San Bartolomé
Haría
16th February Carnival Tuesday
24th June San Juan
Tias
2nd February Day of Candelaría
16th February Carnival Tuesday
Teguise
16th July Nuestra Señora del Carmen
24th June San Juan
Tinajo
16th February Carnival Tuesday
24th June San Juan
Yaiza
7th July San Marcial
8th September Nuestra Señora de los Remedios