The Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services published this Tuesday (30) concierge which establishes national holidays and optional points from 2026. Of the 10 national holidays, only one falls on the weekend – that of the Proclamation of the Republic, on November 15, a Sunday.
The dates, according to the publication, must be observed by bodies and entities of the direct, autonomous and foundational federal public administration, without compromising public activities considered essential services to the population.
The list includes ten national holidays and nine optional points covering traditional dates in the Brazilian civic and religious calendar, as well as periods in which administrative operations are organized, such as carnival and Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
The ordinance also establishes that holidays commemorating the state’s main date, established by state law, and the beginning and end days of the centenary year of the municipality’s founding, declared by municipal law, will be observed by direct, autonomous and foundational federal public administration departments in the respective localities.
“Bodies and entities that are part of the Civil Personnel System of the Federal Administration will not be allowed to advance an optional point in disagreement with the provisions of the ordinance. It is also prohibited to adopt an optional point established by state, municipal or district legislation, with the exception of holidays commemorating the state’s great date.”
Check out the calendar of national holidays and optional points in 2026:
- January 1st, Universal Fraternization (national holiday);
- February 16th, Carnival (optional);
- February 17th, Carnival (optional);
- February 18th, Ash Wednesday (optional until 2pm);
- April 3, Passion of Christ (national holiday);
- April 20th (optional point);
- April 21st, Tiradentes (national holiday);
- May 1st, World Labor Day (national holiday);
- June 4, Corpus Christi (optional point);
- June 5th (optional point);
- September 7th, Independence of Brazil (national holiday);
- October 12th, Nossa Senhora Aparecida (national holiday);
- October 28th, Federal Public Servants Day (optional);
- November 2, All Souls’ Day (national holiday);
- November 15, Proclamation of the Republic (national holiday);
- November 20th, National Zombie and Black Consciousness Day (national holiday);
- December 24th, Christmas Eve (optional point after 1pm);
- December 25th, Christmas (national holiday); and
- December 31st, New Year’s Eve (optional point after 1pm).
