Brazil Holiday On November 20 2025?

The following are Brazil's national holidays and other observances that apply to Thursday, 2025-11-20:

• Black Awareness Day:

  The Black Awareness Day is celebrated in Brazil on 20 November 2025. It started in 2003 and became a nationwide celebration by Law No. 12,519 of November 10, 2011, and it is considered as a holiday in a thousand cities across the country and in the states of Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Mato Grosso and Rio de Janeiro completely by state decrees. In the states that have not adopted the law, it is the responsibility of the mayor, to decide whether or not it will be a holiday in the city. The occasion is dedicated to reflect on the inclusion of blacks in the Brazilian society. The date was chosen to coincide with the day of the death of 'Zumbi dos Palmares' in 1695. Therefore, Black Awareness Day seeks to conmemorate black resistance against slavery in general, from the first transport of Africans to Brazilian soil in 1549.
  • Law Nº 12.519, Nov 2011 (Portuguese)

• Morte de Zumbi dos Palmares:

  ^[alagoas] Este dia lembra a morte de Zumbi dos Palmares, herói da resistência negra para o fim da escravidão no Brasil, morto em 20 de novembro de 1695.
  • Law 5.724 (01/08/1995)

Notes:

^[alagoas] State holiday in Alagoas.