Portugal public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities falls on Saturday 10 June and is not moved, because Portugal has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Portugal, two more than in 2027.

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 2028

13 dates are counted as non-working in Portugal in 2028; 10 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule
• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

5 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. 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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 2 holidays
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 18 working days in December, 3 holidays

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Friday 1 December 2028 to Sunday 3 December 2028
• 3 days Friday 8 December 2028 to Sunday 10 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 30 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029

Best days to take leave in 2028

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