PORTUGAL | Optional holiday and extended weekends 2023

Find out what the Optional Holidays and Extended Weekends are, start planning and organising your year now in advance.

• Fevereiro

February 21 - Carnival Tuesday, it is adopted in several parts of the country, being a mandatory national holiday, however, in formal terms, this holiday remains optional.

Lisbon, Portugal

Long weekends

In 2023 there will be 5 extended weekends:

April 7 - Friday; May 1 - Monday; December 1 - Friday; December 8 - Friday; December 25 - Monday.

However, you can take advantage of the holidays on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the same fineness, the so-called bridges.

In this sense, you can enjoy holidays such as:

April 25 - Tuesday June 8 - Thursday; August 15 - Tuesday; October 5 - Thursday.