Brazil Holidays 2027: Calendar, Long Weekends and Business Days

Updated October 28, 2026

Brazil has 10 national holidays in 2027, but three fall on a Saturday (1 May, 20 November and Christmas). On the other hand, three fall on a Tuesday (7/9, 12/10 and 2/11) and Corpus Christi is on a Thursday — a year full of bridge days. Here is the full calendar, the long weekends, the business days per month and what it means for vacation.

1. Holiday calendar 2027

Date	Day	Holiday	Type
1/1	Friday	New Year’s Day	National
8/2 and 9/2	Monday and Tuesday	Carnival	Optional day*
10/2	Wednesday	Ash Wednesday (until 2 pm)	Optional day*
26/3	Friday	Good Friday	National
21/4	Wednesday	Tiradentes	National
1/5	Saturday	Labour Day	National
27/5	Thursday	Corpus Christi	Optional day*
7/9	Tuesday	Independence Day	National
12/10	Tuesday	Our Lady of Aparecida	National
2/11	Tuesday	All Souls’ Day	National
15/11	Monday	Republic Day	National
20/11	Saturday	Black Consciousness Day	National (Law 14,759/2023)
25/12	Saturday	Christmas	National

* Carnival and Corpus Christi are not national holidays by law: they are optional days ("ponto facultativo") in the federal civil service. Many states and cities make them holidays by local law, and many employers give the day off by agreement or custom. Easter is on 28/3.

2. Long weekends and bridge days

Holiday	Time off	Days in a row
New Year (Fri 1/1)	1 to 3/1	3
Carnival (Mon 8 and Tue 9/2)	6 to 9/2, where given	4
Good Friday (Fri 26/3)	26 to 28/3	3
Corpus Christi (Thu 27/5)	27 to 30/5, bridging Friday 28/5	4
Independence (Tue 7/9)	4 to 7/9, bridging Monday 6/9	4
Aparecida (Tue 12/10)	9 to 12/10, bridging Monday 11/10	4
All Souls (Tue 2/11)	30/10 to 2/11, bridging Monday 1/11	4
Republic (Mon 15/11)	13 to 15/11	3

Tiradentes is on a Wednesday (21/4), so there is no single bridge day. A bridge day is not an automatic right: the employer (or the collective agreement) decides. The usual approach is to make up the hours before or after, through an hours bank or a compensation agreement (CLT, art. 59).

3. Business days in 2027, month by month

Monday to Friday, minus national holidays. The last column also removes Carnival (8 and 9/2) and Corpus Christi (27/5).

Month	Business days	Without Carnival and Corpus Christi
January	20	20
February	20	18
March	22	22
April	21	21
May	21	20
June	22	22
July	22	22
August	22	22
September	21	21
October	20	20
November	20	20
December	23	23
Total	254	251

State and city holidays lower these numbers. Examples: 25/1 (Monday) in the city of São Paulo, 9/7 (Friday) in São Paulo state, 20/1 (Wednesday) in the city of Rio de Janeiro and 23/4 (Friday) in Rio de Janeiro state. Check your city's and state's laws.

3a. State holidays in 2027

State	Date	Day	Holiday
Acre (AC)	15/6	Tuesday	Aniversário do Acre
Alagoas (AL)	24/6	Thursday	São João
Alagoas (AL)	29/6	Tuesday	São Pedro
Alagoas (AL)	16/9	Thursday	Emancipação política de Alagoas
Amapá (AP)	19/3	Friday	São José
Amapá (AP)	15/5	Saturday	Dia de Cabralzinho
Amapá (AP)	13/9	Monday	Criação do Território do Amapá
Amazonas (AM)	5/9	Sunday	Elevação do Amazonas a província
Bahia (BA)	2/7	Friday	Independência da Bahia
Ceará (CE)	25/3	Thursday	Data Magna do Ceará
Distrito Federal (DF)	30/11	Tuesday	Dia do Evangélico
Espírito Santo (ES)	5/4	Monday	Nossa Senhora da Penha
Goiás (GO)	—	—	none on a weekday
Maranhão (MA)	28/7	Wednesday	Adesão do Maranhão à Independência
Mato Grosso (MT)	—	—	none on a weekday
Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)	11/10	Monday	Criação do Estado
Minas Gerais (MG)	—	—	none on a weekday
Pará (PA)	15/8	Sunday	Adesão do Pará à Independência
Paraíba (PB)	5/8	Thursday	Fundação da Paraíba
Paraná (PR)	—	—	none on a weekday
Pernambuco (PE)	6/3	Saturday	Revolução Pernambucana (Data Magna)
Piauí (PI)	19/10	Tuesday	Dia do Piauí
Rio de Janeiro (RJ)	9/2	Tuesday	Carnaval (terça-feira)
Rio de Janeiro (RJ)	23/4	Friday	Dia de São Jorge
Rio Grande do Norte (RN)	3/10	Sunday	Mártires de Cunhaú e Uruaçu
Rio Grande do Sul (RS)	20/9	Monday	Revolução Farroupilha
Rondônia (RO)	4/1	Monday	Criação do Estado
Roraima (RR)	5/10	Tuesday	Criação do Estado
Santa Catarina (SC)	—	—	none on a weekday
São Paulo (SP)	9/7	Friday	Revolução Constitucionalista
Sergipe (SE)	8/7	Thursday	Emancipação política de Sergipe
Tocantins (TO)	8/9	Wednesday	Nossa Senhora da Natividade
Tocantins (TO)	5/10	Tuesday	Criação do Estado

Holidays set by state law and kept in each state court’s calendar. Acre moves its other holidays by a yearly decree; Santa Catarina’s two holidays move to the Sunday by law; in Minas Gerais and the Federal District, 21/4 is already a national holiday. In Rio de Janeiro, Carnival Tuesday is a state holiday. In the business days calculator, pick your state to count these days out.

4. Planning your vacation

Vacation can't start in the 2 days before a holiday or the weekly rest day (CLT, art. 134, §3). In 2027, for example, it can't start on 19 or 20/4 (before Tiradentes), on Monday 1/11 (before All Souls’ Day) or on 23 or 24/12 (before Christmas). If your rest day is Sunday, it can't start on a Friday or Saturday either.
It can be split into up to 3 periods, if the employee agrees: one of at least 14 days and the others of at least 5 calendar days each (art. 134, §1).
A holiday during your vacation doesn't extend it: the days are calendar days. That's why vacation joined to a long weekend works best when the holiday sits just before or just after the period.

5. Working on a holiday

Anyone who works on a national holiday without another day off is entitled to double pay (Law 605/1949, art. 9; TST Precedent 146). See how to calculate it in the guide to working on Christmas and New Year. A holiday that falls on a Saturday gives no extra day off to people who don't work on Saturdays anyway.

Do the maths

In the business days calculator, pick two dates and see how many business days lie between them, with the 2027 national holidays already removed. You can count Saturdays (retail), include Carnival and Corpus Christi and add your city's holidays. It also adds business days to a date, for deadlines and deliveries.

The official list for the federal civil service is published in a federal government ordinance, usually at the end of the previous year. State and city holidays depend on local law.

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