Every book fair and literary festival worth a trip, with the dates that are already official and the ones that are not yet. Each page links to the official website and can be added to your calendar.
Updated: September 2026 · 10 fairs · Only dates verified against official sources
Sorted by date. Dates come from the official website or the organising body.
Segovia · 10–13 Sept 2026
Barcelona · 18–27 Sept 2026
Barcelona · 29 Sept – 1 Oct 2026
Getafe · 14–25 Oct 2026
Sevilla · 28 Oct – 8 Nov 2026
Barcelona · 23 Apr 2027
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Valencia · It is usually held between late April and early May
Bilbao · It is usually held between late May and early June
Madrid · It is usually held between late May and mid June
Madrid · It is usually held between late September and mid October
Spain has a dense, widely spread fair calendar: almost every provincial capital holds one between April and June, with open-air stalls, a 10% discount and author signings. The Madrid Book Fair, in El Retiro park, is the largest and sets the pace of the publishing spring; Sant Jordi, on 23 April, is not a fair but a day — and in Catalonia more books are sold on that one day than at many entire fairs.
In autumn the focus shifts: LIBER gathers the trade, alternating between Madrid and Barcelona, the Setmana del Llibre en Català opens the season in Barcelona, and Seville has moved its fair to late October. Festivals — Hay Festival Segovia, Getafe Negro — round out a year with no real off-season.
This page is updated whenever organisers publish new dates. If a fair shows as "dates not yet announced", it is because the date is not officially confirmed, not because it will not take place.
The Madrid Book Fair, in El Retiro park, with more than 350 stalls and thousands of signings each edition. It runs from late May to mid June.
Public fairs (Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, the Setmana) are free to enter. LIBER is a trade fair with accreditation. Festivals (Hay Festival, Getafe Negro) mix free events with ticketed ones.
Yes. Spain has fixed book prices by law, but book fairs are allowed to sell at a 10% discount at their stalls — the one exception all year.