Portugal public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Freedom Day falls on Saturday 25 April and is not moved; Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved, because Portugal has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Portugal, one fewer than in 2025.

Portugal has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so the following Monday stays a working day in these counts. Each municipality also has a municipal holiday, and Carnival Tuesday is a day off for many; neither is counted here.

Public holidays in 2026

13 dates are counted as non-working in Portugal in 2026; 9 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

5 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. They are not counted as non-working days here.

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 20 working days in December, 3 holidays

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 3 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 3 October 2026 to Monday 5 October 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

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Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Portugal

Portugal's rule on public holidays sits in article 234 of the Labour Code, and it is short enough to learn: thirteen holidays are mandatory, and almost nothing else may be added. They are New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Freedom Day on 25 April, Labour Day on 1 May, Corpus Christi, Portugal Day on 10 June, the Assumption on 15 August, Republic Day on 5 October, All Saints' Day on 1 November, Restoration of Independence Day on 1 December, the Immaculate Conception on 8 December and Christmas Day.

The list has a recent history. A 2012 law cut four mandatory holidays from 2013: Corpus Christi, 5 October, 1 November and 1 December. Law 8/2016 gave them back, and the full list has applied since. Anyone who remembers four extra working days in 2013 to 2015 is remembering that suspension.

Portuguese law is more flexible about substitutions than the list suggests. Besides the thirteen, only Carnival Tuesday and the municipal holiday of the locality can be observed, by collective agreement or contract, and an employer and its staff may agree on another day instead of either of them. Good Friday itself may be kept on another day with local meaning during the Easter period. Because those arrangements are made workplace by workplace, HolidayTally counts the standard thirteen. Carnival Tuesday, Christmas Eve, 26 December, New Year's Eve and the Lisbon-only day of Saint Anthony on 13 June are listed as observed by some but not counted. Municipal holidays are also left out, so someone working in a town with its own day has one working day fewer than shown.

There are no substitute days. A holiday on a weekend stays where it is and no Monday is given. In 2026 four fall on a Saturday or Sunday: Easter Sunday on 5 April, Freedom Day on Saturday 25 April, the Assumption on Saturday 15 August and All Saints' Day on Sunday 1 November. Nine reduce the working weekdays, among them Good Friday on 3 April and Corpus Christi on 4 June.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?artigo_id=1047A0234&nid=1047&tabela=leis&pagina=1&ficha=1&so_miolo=&nversao=

How the counts are made