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Public holidays in Brazil in 2027

13 public holidays

Brazil has 13 public holiday dates recorded for 2027, of which 12 apply nationwide. 12 of the listed dates are treated as non-working days and reduce the working-day count; 4 of those fall at a weekend. For the effect on working days see Brazil business days 2027.

Dates

DateDayHolidayDeducted from working days
2027-01-01FridayConfraternização UniversalYes
2027-03-26FridaySexta-feira SantaYes
2027-03-28SundayDomingo de PáscoaYes
2027-04-21WednesdayDia de TiradentesYes
2027-05-01SaturdayDia do TrabalhadorYes
2027-05-27ThursdayCorpus ChristiYes
2027-07-09FridayRevolução Constitucionalista de 1932Regional or sector-specific only
2027-09-07TuesdayDia da IndependênciaYes
2027-10-12TuesdayNossa Senhora AparecidaYes
2027-11-02TuesdayDia de FinadosYes
2027-11-15MondayProclamação da RepúblicaYes
2027-11-20SaturdayDia da Consciência NegraYes
2027-12-25SaturdayNatalYes

Near-national dates, and why São Paulo's calendar breaks the count

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.

Method and scope

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.

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