Public holidays in Portugal, 2026
Portugal observes 14 nationwide public holidays in 2026. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 251 days.
Every public holiday in 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day Ano Novo |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 17 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday Sexta-feira Santa |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 5 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Domingo de Páscoa |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 25 Apr | Saturday Weekend | Freedom Day Dia da Liberdade |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 1 May | Friday | Labour Day Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 1 Jun | Monday | Azores Day Dia dos Açores |
PT-20 |
| Thu, 4 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi Corpo de Deus |
Nationwide |
| Wed, 10 Jun | Wednesday | National Day Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas |
Nationwide |
| Wed, 1 Jul | Wednesday | Madeira Day Dia da Madeira |
PT-30 |
| Sat, 15 Aug | Saturday Weekend | Assumption Day Assunção de Nossa Senhora |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 5 Oct | Monday | Republic Day Implantação da República |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 1 Nov | Sunday Weekend | All Saints Day Dia de Todos-os-Santos |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 1 Dec | Tuesday | Restoration of Independence Restauração da Independência |
Nationwide |
| Tue, 8 Dec | Tuesday | Immaculate Conception Imaculada Conceição |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day Natal |
Nationwide |
| Sat, 26 Dec | Saturday Weekend | 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 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 152 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 160 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 | 2,008 |
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.
4 of this year's public holidays fall on a weekend and therefore add no time away from work: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Freedom Day (25 Apr), Assumption Day (15 Aug), 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 February 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 61 working days across April, May, June.
Compared with 2025, which held 250 working days, 2026 is 1 working day longer. Where a target is carried over from one year to the next unchanged, that difference is absorbed silently unless someone accounts for it.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2026, 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 49.
The holidays produce 4 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 3 days, from 3 April 2026 to 5 April 2026, 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.
4 of this year's holidays sit on a different calendar date than in 2025: Carnival, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Corpus Christi. Dates that move cannot be carried forward from last year's planning spreadsheet, which is the most common way a holiday is missed.
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.