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13 public holidays
Brazil has 13 public holiday dates recorded for 2026, of which 12 apply nationwide. 12 of the listed dates are treated as non-working days and reduce the working-day count; 2 of those fall at a weekend. For the effect on working days see Brazil business days 2026.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Deducted from working days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | Thursday | Confraternização Universal | Yes |
| 2026-04-03 | Friday | Sexta-feira Santa | Yes |
| 2026-04-05 | Sunday | Domingo de Páscoa | Yes |
| 2026-04-21 | Tuesday | Dia de Tiradentes | Yes |
| 2026-05-01 | Friday | Dia do Trabalhador | Yes |
| 2026-06-04 | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Yes |
| 2026-07-09 | Thursday | Revolução Constitucionalista de 1932 | Regional or sector-specific only |
| 2026-09-07 | Monday | Dia da Independência | Yes |
| 2026-10-12 | Monday | Nossa Senhora Aparecida | Yes |
| 2026-11-02 | Monday | Dia de Finados | Yes |
| 2026-11-15 | Sunday | Proclamação da República | Yes |
| 2026-11-20 | Friday | Dia da Consciência Negra | Yes |
| 2026-12-25 | Friday | Natal | Yes |
Brazil's federal civil-holiday list (Law 9.093/1995, extended since) fixes the national dates: New Year, Good Friday, Tiradentes (21 April), Labour Day, Independence (7 September), Our Lady of Aparecida (12 October, Brazil's patron saint), All Souls (2 November), the Proclamation of the Republic (15 November) and Christmas — with Black Consciousness Day (20 November) added as a national holiday by a 2023 law. The same law then devolves the rest: each state may declare its own anniversary as one extra holiday, and each municipality up to four religious days, one of which must be the town's patron-saint day.
The consequence for anyone doing business in Brazil: the biggest commercial centre, São Paulo city, takes its own anniversary (25 January) and Constitutionalist Revolution Day (9 July) as full stops, and the state adds Black Awareness Day (20 November) while Rio adds San Sebastian (20 January). A working-day plan built from the federal list alone is wrong for the two states holding nearly half the country's GDP. Then there is Carnival: legally not a national holiday at all, a "point facultative" by federal practice, yet offices, banks and courts observably close from Monday to Wednesday noon — and in a World Cup hosted on Brazilian soil, the day of the national team's final becomes a statutory holiday by a clause in that same 1995 law. Read the tables above as the floor; Brazil's real calendar is the one your counterpart's city council published.
Deducted days are national public holidays (the days the dataset records as applying to the whole country). Holidays observed only in part of the country, or only in particular sectors, are listed with “Regional or sector-specific only” and are not deducted from the business-day counts.