Offices in Spain typically run 09:00–18:00 local time, Monday to Friday. That is about 45 hours a week across 5 working days. Spanish office hours run later than the rest of Europe, often with a long midday break.
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The Workers' Statute caps ordinary working time at 40 hours a week, averaged over the year (art. 34). Since 2019 every employer must also keep a daily record of each employee's start and finish times (art. 34.9). A government bill to cut the week to 37.5 hours was voted down in Congress on 10 September 2025, so 40 remains the ceiling.
Source: Estatuto de los Trabajadores, art. 34 (BOE, texto consolidado)
Many Spanish offices work a jornada partida: a morning block, a long lunch from around 14:00, and an afternoon that can run past 18:00. In summer many switch to a jornada intensiva, one continuous day that ends in the early afternoon. For central-government staff it is written down: between 16 June and 15 September, six and a half continuous hours between 08:00 and 15:00. A 16:00 call to Madrid in July can find the office empty.
Source: Resolución de 14 de abril de 2026, Secretaría de Estado de Función Pública (BOE-A-2026-8287)
Mainland Spain lies almost entirely west of Greenwich, yet keeps Central European Time. An order of 7 March 1940 moved the clocks forward an hour to run with the rest of Europe, saying the normal time would be restored in due course; it never was. The sun rises and sets late, which is part of why the Spanish day runs late. The Canary Islands keep the hour behind, all year.
Source: Instituto Geográfico Nacional, «La hora oficial en España y sus cambios»
Hours you share with Spain, computed from each country's own working day rather than a blanket nine-to-five.
Spain keeps the Saturday and Sunday weekend, so the days line up with most of Europe and the Americas.
The day also runs later than the nine-to-five most tools assume: 09:00–18:00 rather than 09:00–17:00.
A national convention for offices. Individual employers, shift work and retail vary.
Times, offsets and sun positions on this page are computed live from the IANA timezone database and the NOAA solar algorithm, so they do not depend on the review dates below.
09:00–18:00 local time is the usual office day, about 9 hours. Spanish office hours run later than the rest of Europe, often with a long midday break.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The rest days are Saturday and Sunday.
No. Saturday is a rest day in Spain.
No. Sunday is a rest day in Spain.
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