Events in Lisbon
This September, Lisbon fills its evenings with live music and fado. Fado in Chiado plays nightly, The Jazz Room brings a Sinatra and Armstrong tribute to Time Out Market on 19 September, and candlelight concerts run through the Hans Zimmer and Queen and The Beatles programmes. Comedy and immersive theatre follow with Desatino Stand-Up Comedy and The Jury Experience, while The Exhibition of a Dream opens at the Gulbenkian and MAAT shows the EDP Foundation collection. The city's official calendar adds neighbourhood theatre, museum exhibitions and open-air cinema.
Lisbon events this September from the official listing
The events below are drawn from Lisbon's official events calendar for the month, and each card links straight to the calendar's own listing with the dates and the venue. For the sights that stay open all year, start with visiting Lisbon.
Edson Chagas
When: 12 September to 29 November
Where: Pavilhão Branco
A photography exhibition by the Angolan artist known for his images of cities, objects and everyday life.
Setembro na Quinta Alegre
When: 1 to 30 September
Where: Quinta Alegre
A month of neighbourhood theatre, music and family shows, part of the city's Um Teatro em Cada Bairro programme.
Art exhibitions and museum shows in Lisbon
Gulbenkian, 70 years, Post it!
Until: 19 October
Where: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
A display of posters tracing the range and diversity of the Foundation's programme across its seventy-year history.
Turn around, a look at the EDP Foundation art collection
Until: 15 February 2027
Where: MAAT
A survey of the EDP Foundation art collection, gathering Portuguese artists across painting, photography, sculpture and installation.
The Exhibition of a Dream
Dates: 19 September to 22 February 2027
Where: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, sixteen dreams are read as songs and unfold through the shifting, temporary forms of mandalas.
Lisbon tickets and tours
National and local holidays in Lisbon
Public holidays change the rhythm of a visit more than most travellers expect. Museums and monuments can switch to holiday timetables, many shops and banks close for the day and public transport often runs to a lighter schedule, so a day built around one museum can fall apart. Portugal fixes 13 statutory holidays in article 234 of the Labour Code, three of them moveable feasts that shift with Easter, and Lisbon adds one day of its own.
National holidays in Portugal 2026
- 1 January New Year's Day (Ano Novo)
- 3 April Good Friday (Sexta-Feira Santa)
- 5 April Easter Sunday (Domingo de Páscoa)
- 25 April Freedom Day (Dia da Liberdade)
- 1 May Labour Day (Dia do Trabalhador)
- 4 June Corpus Christi (Corpo de Deus)
- 10 June Portugal Day (Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas)
- 15 August Assumption Day (Assunção de Nossa Senhora)
- 5 October Republic Day (Implantação da República)
- 1 November All Saints' Day (Dia de Todos-os-Santos)
- 1 December Restoration of Independence (Restauração da Independência)
- 8 December Immaculate Conception (Imaculada Conceição)
- 25 December Christmas Day (Natal)
Local holidays in Lisbon 2026
- 13 June Saint Anthony's Day (Dia de Santo António), local
The Câmara Municipal de Lisboa calls 13 June the feriado municipal and publishes a mobility plan for it: the river ferries run a Saturday timetable on every route that day, and on the night of 12 June, for the Santo António street parties, the metro and the suburban trains run later than usual. The two other days that sit outside the national list, Azores Day on 1 June and Madeira Day on 1 July, belong to the autonomous regions and not to the mainland. Turismo de Lisboa publishes the opening hours of every Ask Me Lisboa point on its own page, which is where a holiday timetable would appear.
Before you go to Lisbon
What to see in Lisbon
The Lisbon guide on Tourist Office pulls together a first day walking route, the viewpoints and neighbourhoods worth your time and the sights to book ahead.
Lisbon tourist information
Where Lisbon's official tourist information points are, the hours they keep and which public holidays change them.
Beyond Lisbon
The Portugal guide looks past the capital to Porto, the Algarve, Sintra and beyond, with the sights worth building a longer trip around.