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Overview
- The Ministry of Management and Innovation published a portaria in the Diário Oficial da União formalizing the 2026 schedule for federal bodies, listing ten national holidays and nine pontos facultativos.
- Nine of the ten national holidays occur Monday through Friday, with only Proclamation of the Republic on a Sunday, positioning 2026 for more long weekends.
- Federal agencies must follow the calendar without advancing or adopting local optional days off, while observing state data magna and municipal centenary dates set by law and maintaining essential services.
- Some optional days have limited hours, including Ash Wednesday until 14:00 and Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve after 13:00, alongside the Carnival and Corpus Christi dates.
- States and institutions are mapping local variations, with Bahia adding dates such as 2 July and 8 December and bodies in Piauí declaring optional days on 20 April and 5 June, shaping regional schedules.