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🇵🇹 Portugal Long Weekends 2025

6 long weekends in Portugal in 2025. Plan your trips around these dates.

Planning the Christmas break? See Christmas and New Year public holidays across Europe, or Portugal public holidays 2027 to book next year's leave early.

Good Friday + Easter Sunday
3 days
18 April 2025 — 20 April 2025
Freedom Day
3 days
25 April 2025 — 27 April 2025
Assumption Day
3 days
15 August 2025 — 17 August 2025
Restoration of Independence
3 days
29 November 2025 — 1 December 2025
Immaculate Conception
3 days
6 December 2025 — 8 December 2025
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day
4 days
25 December 2025 — 28 December 2025
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Long Weekends Summary — Portugal 2025

Longest
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day — 4 days, no leave used
By length
1 × 4-day, 5 × 3-day

How long weekends are calculated

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend. It runs longer when holidays stack — Good Friday plus Easter Monday gives four days — and only statutory days off count, never days that are merely customary. All of these need no annual leave.
Source: Diário da República — Código do Trabalho, art. 234 ↗ (the governing law) · Dates verified annually. · Report an error
Art. 234 lists the mandatory holidays; art. 235 makes Carnival optional, which is why we do not count it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many long weekends does Portugal have in 2025?+
Portugal has 6 long weekends in 2025: 1 four-day weekend, and 5 three-day weekends.
What's the longest weekend in Portugal in 2025?+
The longest is around Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day, running from 25 December 2025 to 28 December 2025 — 4 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.
How are long weekends calculated?+
A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.
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