Public holidays in Brazil, 2025
Brazil observes 14 nationwide public holidays in 2025. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 252 days.
Every public holiday in 2025
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1 Jan | Wednesday | New Year's Day Confraternização Universal |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 3 Mar | Monday | Carnival Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 4 Mar | Tuesday | Carnival Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 18 Apr | Friday | Good Friday Sexta-feira Santa |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 20 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Domingo de Páscoa |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 21 Apr | Monday | Tiradentes Dia de Tiradentes |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 1 May | Thursday | Labour Day Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 19 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| Wed, 9 Jul | Wednesday | Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 Revolução Constitucionalista de 1932 |
BR-SP |
| Sun, 7 Sep | Sunday Weekend | Independence Day Dia da Independência |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 12 Oct | Sunday Weekend | Our Lady of Aparecida Nossa Senhora Aparecida |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 2 Nov | Sunday Weekend | All Souls' Day Dia de Finados |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 15 Nov | Saturday Weekend | Republic Proclamation Day Proclamação da República |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 20 Nov | Thursday | Black Awareness Day Dia da Consciência Negra |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 25 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Day Natal |
Nationwide |
1 further date is observed in some regions only and is not counted in the working day totals above.
Working days month by month
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend | Holidays | Working days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Brazil. Only nationwide holidays are deducted; a date observed in one region alone still counts as a working day here, because a national figure that moved with regional calendars would describe nobody accurately.
5 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: Easter Sunday (20 Apr), Independence Day (7 Sep), Our Lady of Aparecida (12 Oct), All Souls' Day (2 Nov), Republic Proclamation Day (15 Nov). Whether these are compensated with a substitute day depends on national rules rather than on the calendar, so confirm before planning around them.
The longest working month is July at 23 days; the shortest is November at 19. That spread of 4 days matters for anything billed or accrued monthly, which is why payroll and capacity plans that assume an even year drift by the end of it. The thinnest quarter is Q1, carrying 61 working days across January, February, March.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2025, Brazil's 14 nationwide holidays put it above the median of 12, around the 75th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 48.
The holidays produce 2 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 4 days, from 1 March 2025 to 4 March 2025, built around Carnival. A further 4 working days are stranded between a holiday and a weekend, where one day of leave buys a break of four days or more. The full breakdown is here.