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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for Portugal, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.
How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing
Includes subnational coverage · 4 subdivisions covered.
The next public holiday in Portugal is
Republic Day
In 43 days · expected; set by announcement
Computed · local time Europe/Lisbon
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- Count working days Business days between two dates, with Portugal’s closures removed and every excluded day named.
- Find the next business day Add or subtract N working days from a date, skipping weekends and closures — for filing and settlement dates.
- Discover long weekends Every run of consecutive days off in a year, and the bridge days worth taking. Pick Portugal from the list.
- Compare with your other markets Portugal beside the rest — the weeks that work everywhere, and which dates are still estimates.
Portugal public holidays in 2026
13 national closures in 2026, of 19 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.
| Date | Observance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day expected | Verified |
| 3 April 2026 | Good Friday expected | Verified |
| 5 April 2026 | Easter Sunday expected | Verified |
| 25 April 2026 | Freedom Day expected | Verified |
| 1 May 2026 | Labour Day expected | Verified |
| 4 June 2026 | Corpus Christi expected | Verified |
| 10 June 2026 | Portugal Day (Day of Camões) expected | Verified |
| 15 August 2026 | Assumption expected | Verified |
| 5 October 2026 | Republic Day expected | Verified |
| 1 November 2026 | All Saints' Day expected | Verified |
| 1 December 2026 | Restoration expected | Verified |
| 8 December 2026 | Immaculate Conception expected | Verified |
| 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day expected | Verified |
The shape of Portugal’s year
Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.
13 closuresevery other day
Long weekends in Portugal, 2026
8 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on a Monday–Friday week. The corpus holds Sunday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — corroborated — but a labour code names the day it guarantees, not the days custom adds, so it is cited above rather than computed from.
| When | Length | Because of | Leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan – 4 Jan | 4 days | New Year's Day | take Fri 2 Jan |
| 3 Apr – 5 Apr | 3 days | Good Friday, Easter Sunday | no leave needed |
| 1 May – 3 May | 3 days | Labour Day | no leave needed |
| 4 Jun – 7 Jun | 4 days | Corpus Christi | take Fri 5 Jun |
| 3 Oct – 5 Oct | 3 days | Republic Day | no leave needed |
| 28 Nov – 1 Dec | 4 days | Restoration | take Mon 30 Nov |
| 5 Dec – 8 Dec | 4 days | Immaculate Conception | take Mon 7 Dec |
| 25 Dec – 27 Dec | 3 days | Christmas Day | no leave needed |
Next in each subdivision
4 subdivisions of Portugal keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.
| Subdivision | Next | Observance |
|---|---|---|
| Azores | 17 May 2027 | Azores Day |
| Lisbon | 13 June 2027 | St. Anthony's Day |
| Madeira | 26 December 2026 | Primeira Oitava |
| Porto | 24 June 2027 | St. John's Day |
How we know this
Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for Portugal, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.
| Layer | Records | How we know | Last checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory weekly rest | 1 | corroborated | — | 1 named source, sectors recorded separately |
| Statutory closures | 19 | 19 verified | 2026-08-08 | |
| Religious observances | 9 | 9 verified | 2026-08-08 | |
| Substitution and in-lieu rules | 7 | 7 verified | 2026-08-08 | |
| School terms and breaks | 18 | — | — | 4 calendars |
| Subdivisions with their own dates | 4 | — | — | |
| Exchanges | 1 | — | — | XLIS (23) |
| Tax and filing deadlines | 5 | — | — | |
| Elections | 18 | — | — |
Not held for Portugal: Optional and restricted days, Half-days and partial closures, Bank-only closures, Observed but open. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.
5 named documents, issued by 4 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:
Assembleia Legislativa da Região Autónoma da Madeira Assembleia Regional da Madeira Diário da República Eletrónico (DRE) python-holidays maintainers
How Portugal keeps time
| Observances | 19 across the national calendar and 4 subdivisions |
|---|---|
| Evidence | 19 verified · 0 corroborated · 0 compiled, from 7 named sources |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Calendar systems | gregorian |
| Exchanges | XLIS |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-08 |
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All 19 dated closures here were read from the instrument itself — the gazette, statute or order — across 7 named sources.
Contents are emitted when the dossier is compiled, so this list and the PDF cannot disagree.
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We do not promise a calendar that never changes. Dates move: authorities declare holidays at short notice and publish corrections of their own. Every record here shows what stands behind it, and when a date changes we correct it, publish it, and tell the people it affects.