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Brazil (Rio G. do Sul) : 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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    Friday december 29, 2023Banks close at 12:00Banks only
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    Monday january 1, 2024School holidaysSchool holidays
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    Monday january 1, 2024New Year's DaySecular holiday
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    Monday january 22, 2024World Social Forum (Porto Alegre only)Special Events
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    Friday february 2, 2024Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes (Porto Alegre only)Secular holiday
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    Monday february 12, 2024Optional holidaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday february 14, 2024Optional holidayCatholic
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    Monday february 19, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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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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    Sunday april 21, 2024Tiradentes DaySecular holiday
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Thursday may 30, 2024Corpus ChristiCatholic
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    Banks close at 12:00

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    Friday december 29, 2023
    Banks only :

    School holidays

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    Monday january 1, 2024
    School holidays : Https://educacao.rs.gov.br
    calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
    Dates are different in Carazinho
    PISA ranking (average 493): 401
    Schooling is mandatory till age 15
    schools may open on Saturday
    number of instructional hours: 800
    school uniforms often required

    We carry confirmed dates till Jan 2025

    Please note that authorities may take last-minute decisions; please double-check if this information is vital to you
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    New Year's Day

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    Monday january 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    World Social Forum (Porto Alegre only)

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    Monday january 22, 2024
    Special Events :

    Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes (Porto Alegre only)

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    Friday february 2, 2024
    Secular holiday :

    Optional holiday

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    Monday february 12, 2024
    Secular holiday :

    Optional holiday

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    Wednesday february 14, 2024
    Catholic : Ash Wednesday

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday february 19, 2024
    School holidays :

    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.

    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 .

    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

    Corpus Christi

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    Thursday may 30, 2024
    Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church. For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity. the actual celebration is moved to the nearest weekend.