Brazil public holidays 2026
Brazil has 14 national public holidays in 2026. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 249 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2026
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Thursday | New Year's Day
Confraternização Universal |
Nationwide |
| 16 Feb | Monday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 17 Feb | Tuesday | Carnival
Carnaval |
Nationwide |
| 3 Apr | Friday | Good Friday
Sexta-feira Santa |
Nationwide |
| 5 Apr | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Domingo de Páscoa |
Nationwide |
| 21 Apr | Tuesday | Tiradentes
Dia de Tiradentes |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Friday | Labour Day
Dia do Trabalhador |
Nationwide |
| 4 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Nationwide |
| 9 Jul | Thursday | Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932
Revolução Constitucionalista de 1932 |
BR-SP |
| 7 Sep | Monday | Independence Day
Dia da Independência |
Nationwide |
| 12 Oct | Monday | Our Lady of Aparecida
Nossa Senhora Aparecida |
Nationwide |
| 2 Nov | Monday | All Souls' Day
Dia de Finados |
Nationwide |
| 15 Nov | Sunday rest day | Republic Proclamation Day
Proclamação da República |
Nationwide |
| 20 Nov | Friday | Black Awareness Day
Dia da Consciência Negra |
Nationwide |
| 25 Dec | Friday | Christmas Day
Natal |
Nationwide |
The 1 regional date above is observed only in part of the country and is left out of every national total on this page.
2026 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February 2 holidays
March
April 3 holidays
May 1 holiday
June 1 holiday
July
August
September 1 holiday
October 1 holiday
November 3 holidays
December 1 holiday
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 144 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| 2026 | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 | 1,992 |
What the numbers say about Brazil in 2026
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Brazil. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
2 holidays land on a rest day this year: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Republic Proclamation Day (15 Nov). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
July is the longest working month with 23 days, and February the shortest with 18. A gap of 5 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
Among the 204 countries we track for 2026, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 14, Brazil sits above the middle of the range, around the 74th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 8 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 14 February to 17 February (Carnival). There are also 3 bridge days: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2026.