Public holidays in Portugal: thirteen days, straight from Article 234

Article 234(1) of the Código do Trabalho names the days:

• 1 January — Ano Novo
• Sexta-Feira Santa — Good Friday (movable)
• Domingo de Páscoa — Easter Sunday (movable)
• 25 April — Dia da Liberdade
• 1 May — Dia do Trabalhador
• Corpo de Deus — Corpus Christi (movable)
• 10 June — Dia de Portugal
• 15 August — Assunção
• 5 October — Implantação da República
• 1 November — Todos os Santos
• 1 December — Restauração da Independência
• 8 December — Imaculada Conceição
• 25 December — Natal

Ten fixed dates, three movable feasts tied to Easter — thirteen in all, and unlike Spain's regional grid, one national list.

Source: Código do Trabalho, artigo 234.º — Diário da República (texto consolidado), read 6 September 2026.

Article 234 carries two adjustment mechanisms of its own:

• The Good Friday holiday may be observed on another day with local significance within the Easter period (art. 234(2)).
• By specific legislation, certain obligatory holidays may be observed on the Monday of the following week (art. 234(3)).

The article as it stands took its current shape with the 2016 amendment (Lei 8/2016) — the one that restored four holidays that had been suspended earlier in the decade, which is why older articles still describe a ten-holiday Portugal.

Source: Código do Trabalho, artigo 234.º, n.ºs 2-3 — texto consolidado, read 6 September 2026.

The Labour Code list is the national, obligatory layer — the days when closing rules and holiday-work rules bite. Municipal holidays and Carnival arrangements are governed separately, so the day your city celebrates its padroeiro is real but comes from a different rulebook. For anything that turns on a specific workplace — pay for working a holiday, make-up days — the Código do Trabalho around Article 234 (and your employment contract) is the text to read; that goes beyond this page's scope.

Source: Código do Trabalho — Diário da República, legislação consolidada, read 6 September 2026.