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Brazil (Bahia) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

  • Currency: Real (BRL)
  • Internet domain: .br - Telephone code: 55 - International dialing code: 0014
    - GMT offset: see each related State (DST: yes)
  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Thursday march 7, 2024Mid-LentEvents, celebrations...
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    Thursday march 28, 2024Bank Holiday (from 13:00)Banks only
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    Friday march 29, 2024Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Friday march 29, 2024Salvador Day (Salvador only)Events, celebrations...
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    Sunday april 21, 2024Tiradentes DaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Friday may 10, 2024St Françis XavierEvents, celebrations...
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Thursday may 30, 2024Optional holidayCatholic
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    Friday june 14, 2024Winter holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Monday june 24, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Friday june 28, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Sunday june 30, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Tuesday july 2, 2024Bahia Independence Day (Bahia only)Secular holiday
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    Wednesday july 3, 2024Winter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Friday july 26, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Thursday august 15, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Saturday september 7, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Sunday september 8, 2024Regional holidaySecular holiday
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    Mid-Lent

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    Thursday march 7, 2024
    Culture : A French Middle-Age tradition, celebrated in some French villages, in the French Caribbean and in Brazil ( Micareta )

    Bank Holiday (from 13:00)

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    Thursday march 28, 2024
    Banks only :

    Good Friday

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    Friday march 29, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.

    Salvador Day (Salvador only)

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    Friday march 29, 2024
    Culture :

    Tiradentes Day

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    Sunday april 21, 2024
    Secular holiday : In tribute to national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, a resistant in the upraise against the Portuguese. Since he was a dentist, he was nicknamed tiradentes ( tooth-puller ). He was executed in 1789. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Labor Day/May Day

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    Wednesday may 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .

    St Françis Xavier

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    Friday may 10, 2024
    Culture : Salvador only

    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Optional holiday

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    Thursday may 30, 2024
    Catholic : Corpus Cristi

    Winter holiday (beginning)

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    Friday june 14, 2024
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    Regional holiday

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    Monday june 24, 2024
    Secular holiday : in the capital city only

    Regional holiday

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    Friday june 28, 2024
    Secular holiday : Ilhéus Day Ilhéus only

    Regional holiday

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    Sunday june 30, 2024
    Secular holiday : Porto Seguro Day Porto Seguro only

    Bahia Independence Day (Bahia only)

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    Tuesday july 2, 2024
    Secular holiday : The Siege of Salvador occurred during the Brazilian War of Independence, during which the Brazilian Army, under Pierre Labatut, attempted to capture the city of Salvador in Bahia from its Portuguese Army defenders. The siege lasted from 2 March 1822 until 2 July 1823, finally ending when the Portuguese commander, Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo, surrendered his forces to the Brazilians [Wikipedia]

    Winter holiday (end)

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    Wednesday july 3, 2024
    School holidays :

    Regional holiday

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    Friday july 26, 2024
    Secular holiday : Dia de Senhora Santana, Saint Patron of Feira de Santana city Feira de Santana only

    Regional holiday

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    Thursday august 15, 2024
    Secular holiday : Porto Seguro as well

    Independence Day

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    Saturday september 7, 2024
    Secular holiday : In 1807, Napoleon's army marched on Lisbon. Two days before the invasion, the Portuguese Prince Regent set sail for Brazil. On arrival, he made Rio de Janeiro the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve; Brazil became the only New World colony to serve as the seat of a European monarch. In 1822 the Prince Regent's son, who had been left behind to rule the colony when his father returned to Portugal, pulled out his sword and yelled the battle cry 'Independência ou morte!' (independence or death). Portugal was too weak to fight its favourite son, so Brazil became an independent empire without spilling a drop of blood.

    Regional holiday

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    Sunday september 8, 2024
    Secular holiday : Nossa Senhora da Pena Arraial d'Ajuda and Porto Seguro only