Mass at Barcelona Cathedral: Sunday and weekday times, in Catalan and Spanish

At Barcelona Cathedral, on Sundays and holy days there is Mass at the High Altar at 9:00 in Catalan, the conventual Mass at 10:30 in Catalan, at 12:00 in Spanish, at 13:00 in Catalan, at 18:00 in Spanish and at 19:15 in Catalan. On weekdays Mass is in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

Barcelona Cathedral leads two lives inside the same building. One is the paid visit, with its opening hours and ticket desk. The other is that of a church that opens every morning to say Mass, several times a day and in two languages, for the people who live around it. If you are spending a few months in Barcelona, that second life is the one you can make your own: a Sunday at noon, a weekday Mass at the end of the day, an organ concert on a Wednesday in October.

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Sunday and holy day Masses

On Sundays and holy days Mass is celebrated at the High Altar, and there are six: at 9:00 in Catalan, at 10:30 the conventual Mass in Catalan, at 12:00 in Spanish, at 13:00 in Catalan, at 18:00 in Spanish and at 19:15 in Catalan. That is the timetable the cathedral itself publishes on its Masses page.

Before the conventual Mass, half an hour earlier, at 10:00, Lauds is sung in the choir, and the cathedral posts each Sunday's hymns on its website, so anyone who wants to follow along can look them over at home.

Weekdays and Saturdays

On weekdays Mass is not said at the high altar but in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament: at 9:00 in Catalan, at 10:00 in Spanish, at 11:00 in Catalan, at 12:00 in Spanish and at 19:15 in Catalan. The 10:00 is not celebrated in July and August.

On Saturdays and vigils the morning is the same, in the same chapel, and in the evening Mass moves to the High Altar: at 18:00 in Spanish and at 19:15 in Catalan. For those who prefer the Liturgy of the Hours, weekday Lauds is at 8:45 and Vespers at 19:00, also in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

That chapel, of the Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Christ of Lepanto, was built by Arnau Bargués in 1407 and is reserved for worship and prayer alone: no photographs inside, and no entry during services.

Going in to pray or going in to visit

According to Turisme de Barcelona, entry to the cathedral is free during the hours set aside for worship and prayer; you then see only the church itself, and you probably won't be able to go up to the terraces or into the choir. The ticketed tourist visit is a different thing, with its own price and hours, and on Sundays it only runs in the afternoon: it is covered in the guide to the Barri Gòtic one Sunday at a time.

There are three doors: the main one, on Pla de la Seu; the Santa Eulàlia door, on Carrer del Bisbe, which is the step-free entrance for people with reduced mobility; and the Sant Iu door. Turisme de Barcelona points out that it is a place of worship: suitable clothing, heads uncovered and voices low.

The crypt of Santa Eulàlia

One of the cathedral's best-loved corners is the crypt of Santa Eulàlia. It holds a sarcophagus of painted marble that was solemnly inaugurated in 1339, the work of a sculptor from the region of Pisa: the cathedral links it to Luppo di Francesco, recorded in Barcelona between 1330 and 1340.

The reliefs read from left to right. On one side they tell of Eulàlia's martyrdom, who by tradition was 13 years old and whose parents lived in Sarrià; on the other, the finding of her relics and their transfer from Santa María del Mar to the cathedral. Behind the Gothic tomb the original one survives, with its inscription on a broken slab of marble.

The crypt also has Mass on certain feast days: the cathedral calendar listed one in honour of Santa Eulàlia on 12 October 2026, at 19:15. The saint's festival in February and the thirteen geese of the cloister have their own guide.

If you are staying a few months

For someone staying a while there are details a visit never shows. Confession has fixed hours: on Sundays and holy days from 10:30 to 13:00 and from 17:30 to 19:00, and Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 18:00 to 19:00. The 19:15 Mass from Monday to Friday is broadcast on the cathedral's YouTube channel and on Ràdio Estel, for the days you can't make it.

In autumn the organ concert series returns, in 2026 its XXXVII edition: on 21 October, at 20:00, the organist Lorenzo Ghielmi and the violinist Anna Maddalena Ghielmi perform. Because of restoration work on two vaults of the transept, the October, November and December concerts are held in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, with limited seating, and you need to pick up a free invitation beforehand at the offices of the Casa de l'Almoina, from 10 days before each concert.

The cathedral publishes a monthly sheet of services and a calendar on its website. The times in this article are the usual ones; on major feasts they change, and the safe thing is to check that week's calendar.

Checked

Information checked on 16 October 2026 on the cathedral's official website (catedralbcn.org: Masses, Liturgy of the Hours, confession, the crypt of Santa Eulàlia, visitable spaces, Mass online and on radio, the organs and the October calendar) and on the city's official tourism website (thisisbarcelona.com, by Turisme de Barcelona: free entry during worship and dress guidance). Confirm the timetable online before you go.