Halloween and the All Saints' long weekend in Madrid 2026

Is there an All Saints' long weekend in Madrid in 2026?

Yes. In 2026, 1 November falls on a Sunday, and the Madrid region has chosen to move the day off to Monday 2 November, a public holiday across the region (BOE). The long weekend looks like this:

• Saturday 31 October: Halloween. A normal working day for shops and services.
• Sunday 1 November: All Saints' Day.
• Monday 2 November: public holiday in the Madrid region.

If you are coming from elsewhere in Spain, note that Monday 2 November is a working day in Catalonia, the Valencia region, the Basque Country, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Murcia and La Rioja.

Halloween events in Madrid on 31 October

Dated events in the official Madrid Tourism listings:

• Noche de muertos y brujas at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, on Saturday 31: the fifth edition of this party inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, with eight DJs, performances and dancing in the ballroom and the Sala de Columnas. Tickets from €42.50 (Madrid Tourism).
• Halloween Takeover Madrid, on Saturday 31 at the Iberdrola Music venue: more than 12 hours of electronic music, with The Martinez Brothers, Maceo Plex and Kölsch among others. From €51 (Madrid Tourism).
• Samhain, un portal entre dos mundos, at Nomad Museo Inmersivo, from Thursday 29 to Saturday 31: an experience about the Irish origins of Halloween, run with Tourism Ireland (Madrid Tourism).
• Horror on stage (played for laughs): Drácula: una comedia terrorífica, Friday to Sunday at the Teatro Calderón, from €25.70 (Madrid Tourism), and the musical Little Shop of Horrors on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 at 21:00 at the Teatro Sanpol, from €25.59 (Madrid Tourism), both in Spanish.

MADHORROR is not happening this year. IFEMA's horror festival, announced for these dates, has been postponed to 29 October-1 November 2027 (IFEMA, 08-10-2026). Some guides published before then still list it.

Halloween with kids in Madrid

• Pica Pica: Operación Halloween, at the Capitol Gran Vía, on Saturday 31 and Sunday 1 at 12:00 (also on 7 November). A children's musical, in Spanish, with songs like Los Esqueletos and El Vampiro Negro. From €20 (Madrid Tourism).
• Varieté Halloween, at the Teatro de Títeres de El Retiro puppet theatre in Retiro Park, on Saturday 31 and Sunday 1 at 12:30. Puppets, music and improvisation; 40 minutes, ages 5 and up (Madrid City Council).
• Day of the Dead altars, free: the one at Fundación Casa de México, from 2 October to 8 November, plus three more altars at CentroCentro, Matadero and Plaza de Daoíz y Velarde (Madrid Tourism), and the one at the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa (Plaza de Colón), from 20 October to 8 November, dedicated this year to the Generation of '27 poets (Madrid Tourism).

All Saints' Day in Madrid: cemeteries, tours and a candlelit concert

On 1 November Madrid families take flowers to their loved ones' graves, and the Almudena Cemetery, the largest in western Europe at about 120 hectares, fills with visitors (Madrid Tourism). Servicios Funerarios de Madrid (SFM), the city-owned funeral company, runs free activities with booking through its booking site:

• 'Entre Halloween y Difuntos' guided tour of the Almudena: Friday 30 at 16:30 and Saturday 31 at 11:30 and 16:30. An hour and a half, groups of 30, free, in Spanish. Meet at the entrance arches (Avenida de Daroca, 90) (SFM).
• Concierto de Difuntos, in the Almudena chapel lit only by candles: piano, violin, cello and tenor, playing classical and film music. Saturday 31 and Sunday 1, at 19:30 and 21:30. Free, 150 seats per show, booking required; seating is unreserved (SFM).
• Other 'Difuntos 2026' routes, also free: the Necropolis, the Civil and Jewish cemeteries, the Old Cemetery and 'De los Pórticos a las Trece Rosas'. Dates and places on the SFM booking site.

Opening hours and getting there: in winter the Almudena opens from 8:00 to 18:30 (SFM). Metro: La Almudena or La Elipa (line 2). Buses: 15, 28, 106, 110, 113 and 210. Parts of the routes have uneven ground and steps.

The Cementerio Sacramental de San Isidro, Madrid's oldest cemetery, usually runs guided tours with music around these dates, according to Madrid Tourism (Madrid Tourism). We have not yet found the 2026 programme.

Saints' bones, fritters and Don Juan Tenorio

• Huesos de santo ("saints' bones"): marzipan rolls filled with egg yolk cream, now also with chocolate, coconut or yogurt. They are made for 1 November (Madrid Tourism).
• Buñuelos de viento: fritters filled with cream or custard. Tradition, as Madrid Tourism tells it, says every fritter you eat saves a soul from purgatory (Madrid Tourism). Traditional cake shops sell them around these dates.
• Don Juan Tenorio: Zorrilla's play is staged around All Saints' Day because its final act takes place that night. The best-known performance is in Alcalá de Henares, in the Huerta del Obispo garden of the Archbishop's Palace (Madrid Tourism). Check the 2026 dates on the Alcalá City Council website before you go.

What opens and closes on 1 and 2 November

• Shops: in the Madrid region shops are free to open on Sundays and public holidays, and each one sets its own hours (Madrid Regional Government). Check each shop's hours.
• Museo Reina Sofía: open on Sunday 1 from 10:00 to 14:30, free from 12:30, and on Monday 2 from 10:00 to 21:00, free from 19:00 to 21:00. Closed on Tuesdays (Museo Reina Sofía). If you would rather skip the free-hours queue, tickets are also on Tiqets.
• Other museums and sights: each has its own closing days. Check the official website before you go, especially on Monday 2, which is a public holiday. Free hours through the week are on our free museums in Madrid page.

More ideas for the long weekend

For concerts, theatre, exhibitions and matches on those days, see the Madrid events guide and the this weekend page, both updated every morning from official sources.