Canary Islands Day is celebrated every 30 May and is a regional holiday in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands, where it commemorates the self-government, culture and identity of the archipelago.
Regional holiday
30 May 2026
2,249,976
Verified data
In 2026, Canary Islands Day is recorded as a regional holiday on 30 May 2026. The calendars included in the dataset apply it in Canarias, covering 2,249,976 residents in the 2025 register.
This comparison uses only the official working calendars incorporated into the dataset for each year.
| Year | Main date | Where recorded | Residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30 May 2024 | Canarias | 2,228,862 |
| 2025 | 30 May 2025 | Canarias | 2,249,976 |
| 2026 | 30 May 2026 | Canarias | 2,249,976 |
Demographic profile
Age, citizenship, birthplace and average-age structure from the 2025 Annual Population Census.
50.7% / 49.3%
11.2%
70.6%
18.2%
15.2%
23.5%
44.3 years
Comparison with Spain. All five comparisons are population-weighted and use only the 2025 Annual Census. A positive sign means the covered population has a higher value than the benchmark.
| Demographic profile | Covered population | Compared with Spain |
|---|---|---|
| Aged 0–14 | 11.2% | -1.7 pp |
| Aged 65+ | 18.2% | -2.5 pp |
| Foreign citizenship | 15.2% | +1.1 pp |
| Born outside Spain | 23.5% | +4.2 pp |
| Weighted mean age | 44.3 years | -0.2 years |
The largest difference from Spain is in “Born outside Spain”: +4.2 pp.
Sex comes from the 2025 municipal register; all other metrics come from the 2025 Annual Census. Each percentage uses the total from its own statistical operation. INE municipal tables 68535 and 68541.
The date remembers the first session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, held on 30 May, 1983 after the approval of the Statute of Autonomy. That day marked the beginning of Canarian self-government, when the islands began to officially function as an autonomous community with their own institutions.
As an autonomous festival it is relatively recent, although the Canarian identity is much older: it is marked by the indigenous peoples, the conquest, the Atlantic trade, emigration and the relationship with America. 30 May does not create that identity, but rather gives it a common date on the calendar and celebrates the union of all the islands of the archipelago without erasing their differences.
Its origin is institutional, but the celebration is deeply popular. It is lived in schools, squares, town halls and cultural centers with traditional music linked to the timple, dances, typical costumes, native sports such as Canarian wrestling and samples of Canarian gastronomy: potatoes wrinkled with mojo, gofio, cheeses, sancocho or bienmesabe.
It commemorates the first session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands (30 May, 1983) and the self-government of the archipelago.
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Per-municipality data with its official source (regional gazette). Every date is verifiable on the municipality page. Data from festivos.io — CC BY 4.0.