• New Year's Day - public holiday
• 6 January - Epiphany - public holiday
• The Goya Film Awards - Spain's version of the Oscars

February

• The Festival of the Sardine- an amusing fiesta when local people carry 'coffins' of the sardines through the streets, with some ribaldry.
• Madrid Fashion Week
• King's Cup Basketball final

March

• Las Fallas de Valencia - one of Spain's best known festivals where satirical papier-mâché figures are paraded through the streets. www.fallas.com
• 19 March - St Joseph's Day - public holiday, and the major fiesta in Valencia where a large number of huge effigies are burned in the strees, with lots of fireworks.

April

• Easter holidays
• Feria of Seville - a week-long party the Andalusian capital
• End of the basketball season
• Jávea's largest religious festival in honour of the Nazarene

May

• 1 May - May Day bank holiday
• 3 may - in Jávea, the Nazarene is taken back to His permanent place in a hermitage on a hill behind the town - torch-light procession
• International Festival of Short Films, documentaries and new producers, Madrid
  Football - UEFA cup final
• Football - end of La Liga, the Spanish football season

June

• Primavera Sound Music Festival, Barcelona
• Barcelona marathon
• International Festival of Advanced Music and Multi-media Art, Barcelona. www.sonar.es
• Festival of Classical Theatre, Caceres
• Motorcycle Grand Prix, Catalonia
• 23 June - Eve of St John the Baptist's Day, Catalonia - celebrated with bonfires, fireworks and eating traditional 'Coca de Sant Joan' - a delicious pastry
• 24 June - public holiday for St John's Day, Catalonia, and the major fiesta in Jávea everybody (well, almost everybody) jumps over fires lit in the streets and the effigy is burnt - Los Fogueres de Sant Juan

July

• San Fermin Festival and Running of the Bulls, Pamplona, Navarra
• Basque Festival of Theatre
• PopRock Festival, Castellon - one of the best in Spain, attracting bands from Spain, the UK and the US
• San Sebastian Jazz Festival
• Jávea International Fiesta
• 25 July - public holiday for St James' Day
• Moros y Chrstianos festivities in Jávea

August

• Jávea Jazz Festival
• 15 August - public holiday for the Ascension of the Virgin Mary
• Spain's equivalent of the Tour de France begins
• August 27th - in Jávea, the Fiesta of the Virgin de Loreto
• 31 August - La Tomatina- famous tomato throwing festival

September

• In Jávea, the 'Bous a la Mar' - bull running in the port when bulls and young men both land up in the water, part of the religious Mare de Déu de Loreto festival which takes place in and around the futuristic cathedral in the port
• Madrid Fashion Week
• San Sebastian International Film Festival
• Week of 24 September - La Merce Festival, Catalonia - festival for the patron saint of Barcelona, including fire-breathing dragons and spectacular fireworks and classical music next to the Montjuic fountains
• International Festival of Music, Barcelona

October

• Opera season starts at the Palau de les Artes Reina Sofia in Valencia
• Sitges International Festival of Film - a popular among the Hollywood crowd
• Girona Film Festival
• 12 October - public holiday for Spain's National Day

November

• The Latin Grammy awards
• Granada International Jazz Festival - always attracts international stars

December

• 'El Puente' - or Bridge national holiday
• 6 December - Constitution Day
• 8 December - Day of the Immaculate Conception
• 25 December - Christmas Day, public holiday