Working days in Portugal in 2071
There are 249 working days in Portugal in 2071, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 12 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
249
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
12
5 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
20.8
working days per month
Month-by-month working days in 2071
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 |
Public holidays excluded from the 2071 working-day count
These are the 12 public holidays in Portugal that land on a weekday in 2071 and therefore remove a working day. Holidays that fall on a weekend are not listed here because they do not change the working-day total.
- New Year's DayThu, Jan 1
- CarnivalTue, Mar 3
- Good FridayFri, Apr 17
- Labour DayFri, May 1
- Azores DayMon, Jun 1
- National DayWed, Jun 10
- Corpus ChristiThu, Jun 18
- Madeira DayWed, Jul 1
- Republic DayMon, Oct 5
- Restoration of IndependenceTue, Dec 1
- Immaculate ConceptionTue, Dec 8
- Christmas DayFri, Dec 25
How working days in Portugal are counted in 2071
The 249 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2071, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 12 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2071 that applies to 5 of Portugal's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 249 working days works out to roughly 1,992 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
What counts as a working day in Portugal
Article 279 of the Código Civil and article 138 of the Código de Processo Civil define dia útil as any day not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday. The standard private-sector week is Monday to Friday with banks operating Monday to Friday. Statutory annual leave under the Código do Trabalho article 238 is 22 working days plus the thirteen public holidays. Settlement of euro transactions uses TARGET2; domestic Portuguese banking follows the Banco de Portugal calendar, which observes the eight obligatory national days plus the Lisbon municipal holiday only for the Lisbon-cleared instruments.
Portugal has thirteen public holidays under article 234 of the Código do Trabalho, eight obligatory national plus Easter Sunday (movable) plus optional regional and municipal observances. The Madeira and Azores autonomous regions add their own statutory days, including Madeira Day on 1 July and Azores Day on the Monday after Pentecost. Each município adds its own municipal holiday, typically the patron saint's day, so Lisbon closes for Saint Anthony on 13 June and Porto for Saint John on 24 June. Four national holidays were suspended between 2013 and 2016 as an austerity measure under the IMF and EU bailout, then restored by Law 8/2016.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Portugal carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 20.8 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.
Sources for Portugal holiday and working-day rules
- Código do Trabalho article 234 (feriados)
- Lei 8/2016 de 1 de abril (restoring four national holidays)
- Código de Processo Civil article 138
- Banco de Portugal SICOI calendar
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Portugal holiday calendar for 2071. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.
Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for Portugal (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.