Events in Barcelona
November in Barcelona brings 3 events from the official calendar, 11 concerts, 5 shows and 6 exhibitions, and the dated listings run from 10 November to 10 December. On the official calendar are Morning Sun (22 October to 22 November) and MNAC in transformation (24 October to 19 November). Music runs from LAGOS on 18 November to CAZZU on 29 November. Shows include Love Actually en Concierto on 5 December. In the museums, the list includes Sim Acquisition, Drawing and War at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya until 31 December. Every listing below has its own dates and a link to find out more.
Barcelona events this November from the official listing
The events below come from Barcelona's official events calendar, and each card links to the organiser for dates, times and locations. For the sights that stay open all year, see the guide to things to do in Barcelona.
Morning Sun
When: 22 October to 22 November
Where: Villarroel Teatre
A theatre play that follows three generations of women, a mother and her daughter, as their lives change over the years in New York.
Photo: "La Villarroel (Barcelona)" by Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0).
MNAC in transformation
When: 24 October to 19 November
Where: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
A conversation series on what future museums should look like as the MNAC expands and transforms, with directors and architects.
Pantalla Barcelona
When: 27 October to 21 March 2027
Where: Civic centres across Barcelona
The series offers 165 free film screenings from 27 October to 21 March, with a program titled Identities under construction that explores diversity, migration, family, memory, and gender identity.
Barcelona gigs and festivals
Classical Concert, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart, Beethoven and more
Classical Concert, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart, Beethoven and more plays Basílica de la Mercè on 11 November at 17:30.
Tablao Flamenco El Paraigua
Tablao Flamenco El Paraigua plays El Paraigua on 11 November at 21:00.
Arlo Parks, Desire Tour
Arlo Parks, Desire Tour plays Sala Apolo on 13 November at 20:30.
Candlelight: Queen & ABBA
Candlelight: Queen & ABBA plays Petit Palau - Palau de la Música Catalana on 15 November at 17:00.
Jack & Jack: Syn/anti Europe
Jack & Jack: Syn/anti Europe plays Sala Razzmatazz 2 on 16 November at 20:30.
LAGOS
LAGOS plays Sala Razzmatazz 1 on 18 November at 21:00.
Polyphia: Be Not Afraid Tour
Polyphia: Be Not Afraid Tour plays Sala Razzmatazz 1 on 22 November at 20:30.
Candlelight: Tributo a Joan Manuel Serrat
Candlelight: Tributo a Joan Manuel Serrat plays Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona on 22 November at 21:00.
CAZZU
CAZZU plays Sala Razzmatazz 1 on 29 November at 20:00.
Grecas
Grecas plays Sant Jordi Club on 29 November at 21:00.
RIKAS
RIKAS plays La 2 de Apolo on 10 December at 20:30.
Events and shows in Barcelona
El DESmartes open mic comedy
El DESmartes open mic comedy comes to Secreto on 10 November at 20:30.
Comedy Gold Club: diferentes cómicos y monólogos cada domingo en un comedy club
Comedy Gold Club: diferentes cómicos y monólogos cada domingo en un comedy club comes to El Medi on 15 November at 18:45.
Desatada
Desatada comes to La Sala by Lastcrit Comedy Club on 22 November at 18:30.
Love Actually en Concierto
Love Actually en Concierto plays Auditorio Forum CCIB on 5 December at 20:00.
The Jury Experience
The Jury Experience comes to Auditori l’illa on 6 December at 17:00.
Art exhibitions and museum shows in Barcelona
Opening the Archive 08. Le gros orteil
Until: 29 November
Where: Fundació Joan Miró
An archive display at the Miró foundation built around Untitled from 1930, a recent gift to the collection.
Sim Acquisition, Drawing and War
Until: 31 December
Where: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Drawings by the artist known as Sim, one of the visual chroniclers of the Spanish Civil War, drawn from the museum's 2024 acquisition.
Wounded Militiaman
Until: 31 December
Where: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The exhibition presents Francisco Mateos's propagandistic painting, which has not been shown since it returned from the 1937 Paris exposition.
Photo: "Barcelona - Montjuïc - Mirador del Palau Nacional - View SSW on Palau Nacional" by Txllxt TxllxT (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Prisoners of Love
Until: 17 January 2027
Where: MACBA
An audiovisual installation by the Palestinian artists, exploring the resilience of former Palestinian prisoners through song and poetry.
Photo: "Barcelona - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona" by Fred Romero (CC BY 2.0).
Dana Lixenberg, American Images
Until: 17 January 2027
Where: KBr Photography Center
A photography show by Dana Lixenberg, including her long-running Imperial Courts series made in a Los Angeles housing complex.
The Secret Life of Plants, Anselm Kiefer in the Grothe Collection
Until: 24 January 2027
Where: La Pedrera
The first major show in Barcelona devoted to Anselm Kiefer, with around forty works from the private Grothe collection.
Free events in Barcelona in November
Raval(s) neighbourhood festival
The Raval(s) community festival takes over the streets and cultural centres of El Raval from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November 2026, with around fifty activities shaped by about a hundred local groups.
The whole programme is free, from performing arts, music and popular culture to walking routes through the neighbourhood, though a few guided visits ask for sign-up in advance.
The Tot Raval foundation posts the full schedule on the Raval(s) festival page (in Catalan).
Photo: "Rambla del Raval 2014" by Janko Hoener (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Magic Fountain winter shows
After its annual maintenance break from 1 to 15 November, the Magic Fountain on Montjuïc returns on Thursday 19 November 2026 with winter shows every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The music and colour shows start at 8pm and 8.30pm in Plaça de Carles Buïgas, below the Palau Nacional, and are watched from the open square and its steps.
There are no Sunday shows in winter, as the timetable on Barcelona City Council's fountain page shows.
Organ concert in Barcelona Cathedral
Organist Andrés Cea plays in the Cathedral's 37th organ concert cycle on Wednesday 18 November 2026 at 8.15pm, in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
Entry is by free invitation, collected at the Casa de l'Almoina box office from ten days before the concert, while sightseeing visits to the Cathedral remain paid.
Restoration work on two transept vaults has moved the autumn concerts into this small chapel, so the Cathedral's concert notice warns that places are limited.
CCCB Mirador open day
The CCCB opens its glass Mirador on the fifth floor of its building on Carrer de Montalegre on Sunday 22 November 2026, from 10am to 8pm.
Admission is free, with views over El Raval, the Gothic Quarter, Montjuïc, Tibidabo and the sea, and last access is 30 minutes before closing.
The next open day listed on the CCCB's Mirador page is Sunday 27 December.
Photo: "Vista des del mirador del CCCB" by Kippelboy (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Free museum Sunday on 6 December
Sunday 6 December 2026 is both Constitution Day and the first Sunday of the month, when Montjuïc Castle, the Barcelona History Museum in Plaça del Rei, MNAC and the Museu Picasso open free of charge.
MNAC asks for an online booking and closes at 3pm on Sundays, and the Museu Picasso releases its free tickets online four days before the visit from 10am.
Montjuïc Castle's visitor page lists free entry all day on first Sundays and from 3pm on other Sundays.
Barcelona tickets and tours
Keep the city and national holiday calendar in mind
Public holidays change the rhythm of a visit more than most travellers expect. Many shops and museums move to holiday timetables, public transport can run a reduced service and a day built around a market or a municipal museum can fall flat. Barcelona keeps 14 paid holidays in 2026: the 8 that apply across the whole of Spain, 4 more that only Catalonia observes and 2 that the city council adds for itself. The Catalan and city days are the ones that catch visitors out, because they are ordinary working days in the rest of the country.
National holidays in Spain 2026
- 1 January New Year's Day (Cap d'Any)
- 6 January Epiphany (Reis)
- 3 April Good Friday (Divendres Sant)
- 1 May Labour Day (Festa del Treball)
- 15 August Assumption of Mary (l'Assumpció)
- 12 October National Day of Spain (Dia Nacional d'Espanya)
- 8 December Feast of the Immaculate Conception (La Immaculada)
- 25 December Christmas Day (Nadal)
Local holidays in Barcelona 2026
- 6 April Easter Monday (Dilluns de Pasqua Florida), regional
- 25 May Whit Monday (Dilluns de Pasqua Granada), local
- 24 June Midsummer (Sant Joan), regional
- 11 September Catalan National Day (Diada Nacional de Catalunya), regional
- 24 September Feast of La Mercè (Mare de Déu de la Mercè), local
- 26 December Saint Stephen's Day (Sant Esteve), regional
The Catalonia tourist office at Palau de Mar closes on 25 and 26 December and on 1 and 6 January, and it shortens its hours on 24 and 31 December and 5 January. Turisme de Barcelona does not publish a holiday closing list, and the hours of each of its points sit on that point's own page, so a visit on one of these dates is worth checking there first.
Before you go to Barcelona
Tourist attractions in Barcelona
The Barcelona guide on Tourist Office gathers a first day itinerary, the landmarks worth booking ahead and what the city offers for free.
Tourist office in Barcelona
Where Barcelona's tourist information points are, when they open and which public holidays change their opening hours.
Spain highlights
The Spain guide looks beyond the city to the country's great cities, landmarks and coast, with the sights worth planning a longer trip around.
Free things to do in Barcelona
The list of free things to do in Barcelona lists 33 things that cost nothing, from the Bunkers del Carmel and the beaches to free museum Sundays.
It says what is free, when to book and what was checked each month.