Public holidays in Portugal, 2025
Portugal observes 14 nationwide public holidays in 2025. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 250 days.
Every public holiday in 2025
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1 Jan | Wednesday | New Year's Day Ano Novo |
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 |
| Fri, 25 Apr | Friday | Freedom Day Dia da Liberdade |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 1 May | Thursday | Labour Day Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 1 Jun | Sunday Weekend | Azores Day Dia dos Açores |
PT-20 |
| Tue, 10 Jun | Tuesday | National Day Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 19 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi Corpo de Deus |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 1 Jul | Tuesday | Madeira Day Dia da Madeira |
PT-30 |
| Fri, 15 Aug | Friday | Assumption Day Assunção de Nossa Senhora |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 5 Oct | Sunday Weekend | Republic Day Implantação da República |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 1 Nov | Saturday Weekend | All Saints Day Dia de Todos-os-Santos |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 1 Dec | Monday | Restoration of Independence Restauração da Independência |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 8 Dec | Monday | Immaculate Conception Imaculada Conceição |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 25 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Day Natal |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 26 Dec | Friday | St. Stephen's Day Primeira Oitava |
PT-30 |
3 further dates are observed in some regions only and are 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 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Portugal. 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.
3 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: Easter Sunday (20 Apr), Republic Day (5 Oct), All Saints Day (1 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 June 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 Q2, carrying 60 working days across April, May, June.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2025, Portugal'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 5 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 3 days, from 18 April 2025 to 20 April 2025, built around Good Friday and Easter Sunday. A further 5 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.
Notes on Portugal
Portugal suspended four public holidays in 2013 as an austerity measure and restored all four in
2016. Any figure taken from that window is three years out of date in a way that is not obvious
from looking at it.
Each municipality also observes a local holiday, most often its patron saint's day, and Lisbon
and Porto both fall in June. Those are real closures locally and are not part of the national
count here.
Carnival Tuesday is the other date to check. It is very widely treated as a day off, including by
much of the public sector, but it is not a statutory national holiday and is granted at
discretion. It is not deducted in these figures.