--- title: "Brazil Public Holidays 1996: Dates & Printable Calendar" description: "All 9 Brazil public holidays in 1996 with dates and weekdays, 3 long weekends and 257 working days. Free printable calendar. Download a PDF. No signup." canonical_url: "https://calendarbest.com/holidays/brazil-1996" locale: en meta: keywords: "1996 Holidays, Brazil public holidays 1996, Brazil long weekends 1996, Brazil calendar 1996" "og:description": "All 9 Brazil public holidays in 1996 with dates and weekdays, 3 long weekends and 257 working days. Free printable calendar. Download a PDF. No signup." "og:image": "https://calendarbest.com/og-image.png" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Brazil Public Holidays 1996: Dates & Printable Calendar | CalendarBest" "twitter:description": "All 9 Brazil public holidays in 1996 with dates and weekdays, 3 long weekends and 257 working days. Free printable calendar. Download a PDF. No signup." "twitter:image": "https://calendarbest.com/og-image.png" "twitter:title": "Brazil Public Holidays 1996: Dates & Printable Calendar | CalendarBest" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://calendarbest.com/llms.txt) ## **How Public Holidays Work in Brazil** Brazil has 10 national holidays (feriados nacionais). Carnival and Corpus Christi are "pontos facultativos" — optional days off that most businesses still take. States and cities add their own holidays, such as São Paulo's Constitutionalist Revolution Day (9 July) and each city's patron saint day. Sources: [Public holidays in Brazil (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Brazil) ![2026 year calendar with Brazil public holidays highlighted in the CalendarBest builder](https://calendarbest.com/images/brazil-public-holidays-2026-calendar.webp) ## **All Brazil Holidays in 1996** | Date | Holiday | About | | --- | --- | --- | | [Mon, Jan 1](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/01) | **New Year's Day**Confraternização Universal | New Year, celebrated on beaches in white clothing. | | [Mon, Feb 19](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/02) | **Carnival Monday**CarnavalOptional day off | Optional day off (ponto facultativo) during the famous Carnival. | | [Tue, Feb 20](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/02) | **Carnival Tuesday**CarnavalOptional day off | Last day of Carnival before Ash Wednesday. | | [Fri, Apr 5](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/04) | **Good Friday**Sexta-feira Santa | National holiday before Easter Sunday. | | [Sun, Apr 21](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/04) | **Tiradentes Day**Tiradentes | Honors independence hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier. | | [Wed, May 1](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/05) | **Labour Day**Dia do Trabalho | Workers' Day. | | [Thu, Jun 6](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/06) | **Corpus Christi**Optional day off | Optional day off; streets are decorated with colorful sawdust carpets. | | [Sat, Sep 7](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/09) | **Independence Day**Independência do Brasil | Independence from Portugal in 1822, with military parades. | | [Sat, Oct 12](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/10) | **Our Lady of Aparecida**Nossa Senhora Aparecida | Brazil's patron saint; also Children's Day. | | [Sat, Nov 2](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/11) | **All Souls' Day**Finados | Families visit cemeteries to honor the dead. | | [Fri, Nov 15](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/11) | **Republic Proclamation Day**Proclamação da República | Marks the end of the monarchy in 1889. | | [Wed, Dec 25](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996/12) | **Christmas Day**Natal | Celebrates the birth of Jesus; the main feast is on Christmas Eve. | Click a date to see it on the monthly calendar. ## **Long Weekends in 1996** - New Year's Day Dec 30 – Jan 1 · 3 days - Good Friday Apr 5 – Apr 7 · 3 days - Republic Proclamation Day Nov 15 – Nov 17 · 3 days 4 holidays fall on a weekend without a substitute day this year. ## **Working Days per Month** - Jan22 - Feb21 - Mar21 - Apr21 - May22 - Jun20 - Jul23 - Aug22 - Sep21 - Oct23 - Nov20 - Dec21 Monday–Friday minus nationwide public holidays (257 in total). 1996 starts on a Monday. Compared with other years: [1995](https://calendarbest.com/holidays/brazil-1995) has 252 working days, [1997](https://calendarbest.com/holidays/brazil-1997) has 256 working days (vs. 257 in 1996). ## **Plan 1996 Around These Holidays** Add your vacation and bridge days to a calendar, then export it as a printable PDF. For the full year at a glance see the [1996 calendar](https://calendarbest.com/calendar/1996). 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