6 days until San Fermín 2026.
Pamplona’s running of the bulls is inseparable from the city that hosts it, and Encierro tracks both year round because our instructors are runners first. This is encierro news June 2026: a look at how Pamplona is preparing for the fiesta this week, reported from the ground by the local and regional press we follow every day.
Pamplona swears in 13 new municipal police officers one week before San Fermín
Pamplona Actual, June 29, 2026
The Ayuntamiento’s Policía Municipal added 13 officers, 12 men and one woman, in a ceremony at the Palacio del Condestable. The new officers completed a selection process opened in March 2025 and 1,700 hours of training over nine months at Navarra’s Escuela de Seguridad y Emergencias. The additions bring the force to 412 officers, about 19 percent of them women, ahead of what the department itself frames as the year’s biggest operational test.
“El momento no es casual. La llegada de trece nuevos agentes a una semana del inicio de los Sanfermines refuerza un dispositivo de seguridad que deberá hacer frente a uno de los mayores desafíos del año para cualquier cuerpo policial urbano.” (The timing is no coincidence. The arrival of thirteen new officers one week before Sanfermines begins reinforces a security deployment that will face one of the biggest challenges of the year for any urban police force.) Read the original article.
A city print shop is dressing Pamplona for San Fermín, one banner at a time
Pamplona Actual, June 30, 2026
Fifteen workers at the Ayuntamiento’s Tajo de Encuadernación y Serigrafía, a sheltered employment workshop based in the Rochapea neighborhood, have spent weeks producing the physical materials that turn Pamplona into a festival city. The output includes about 100 large format posters for the city’s screens, roughly 28 banners for the Culture and Conservación Urbana departments, signage for cleaning crews and Protección Civil booths, the official municipal bando posters, and the red neckerchiefs and “No Agresiones” armbands distributed during the fiesta.
San Fermín adds a first Diversity Day to the 2026 program
Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, June 29, 2026
This year’s fiesta will include a Día de la Diversidad Cultural for the first time, set for Sunday, July 12. The day folds in the eighth edition of the Mazedonia, Kalejira de las Culturas, the multicultural parade that is moving up about two days from its usual slot on the festival’s last day. More than 30 groups from countries including Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Gambia, Peru, and Western Sahara will march roughly a kilometer through the city center, from San Lorenzo and Calle Mayor to a closing performance in Plaza del Castillo. The day opens with a midday concert by the Brazilian group Yayá Massemba at Plaza de la Compañía.
Villavesas publish full San Fermín schedule, with reroutes around the fireworks and Paseo Sarasate works
Diario de Navarra, June 30, 2026
Pamplona’s comarca bus network released its Sanfermines timetable. Nearly every line except L7, L19, and the fairground route runs 24 hours a day without interruption during the fiesta, with L3 covering L21 as usual. The biggest disruptions land July 6 to 14, when nightly fireworks and the Plaza de los Fueros concerts close surrounding streets and reroute 13 lines between them. Paseo de Sarasate construction also pulls lines L3, 16N, 17N, and the Ferial bus off Calle Padre Moret for the run of the fiesta, and the on-demand airport taxi is suspended July 6 to 14 in favor of an extended, hourly L23 bus to the airport.
From the Archive
The new officers joining Pamplona’s Policía Municipal this week are part of the same security picture we cover in The Police and Encierro Route Security: What Runners Need to Know.
Compiled by the Encierro editorial team. encierro.com tracks Pamplona’s encierro, its city, and its fiesta year round, with instruction from active bull runners who have run San Fermín for decades.