National holidays
New Year’s Day - 1 January
Freedom Day - 25 April
Worker’s Day - 1 May
Portugal Day - 10 June
Feast of the Assumption - 15 August
Implantation of the Republic - 5 October
All Saints Day - 1 November
Restoration of Independence - 1 December
Immaculate Conception - 8 December
Christmas Day - 25 December

Moveable public holidays:
Good Friday
Corpus Christi


School Holidays
For the 2011/12 academic year, school holidays are as follows:
- Christmas - 19 December 2011 to 2 January 2012
- Carnival - 20 to 22 February 2012
- Easter - 26 March to 9 April 2012
- Summer - end of June to mid-September