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Pharmacies and duty pharmacy (farmacia de guardia)

Pharmacies dispense prescriptions; rotating duty pharmacies cover nights and holidays, and the provincial pharmacists' colleges publish the lists.

Why it matters

Needed for prescriptions and out-of-hours medicines.

When

When you need medicine out of hours.

Last checked

22 Oct 2026

Steps

1. Find the duty pharmacy
   The Junta’s health portal links to the duty-pharmacy finder of the pharmacists' colleges and to a page for each province (Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid, Zamora).

Official sources

• Farmacias de guardia