Portugal News in English

Portugal's news in English, and what a day in Portugal means for you. For expats, visitors and anyone with Portuguese family. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: Portugal News is independent. It does not represent the Portuguese government or any government agency and is not affiliated with them. Every source is listed under SOURCES, with its link. In an emergency, call 112. NEWS By topic (politics, strikes, living in Portugal, housing, the economy, fires and weather, the islands, football, culture, travel and more) and by place, from Lisbon and Porto to the Algarve, Madeira and the Azores. Follow what matters: a notification at most once a day each, never at night. TODAY IN PORTUGAL For your place: IPMA's weather warnings, wildfires nearby and today's fire risk, the weather and the next two hours' rain, the sea, waves and UV, recent earthquakes, a strike watch, the euro against your currency, and the next long weekend ("fazer ponte"). WILDFIRE AND WEATHER ALERTS A notification when a large wildfire burns within 20 km of your place, and when IPMA puts your area on orange or red (or any level). THE PORTUGUESE CALENDAR Public, municipal and regional holidays, school breaks, clock changes, and the dates newcomers miss: the IRS return, IMI property tax, the land-clearing deadline and the fire season, with reminders. And the Santos Populares and Fátima's pilgrimages. LEARN PORTUGUESE A European Portuguese word a day, and "Portugal explained": tap AIMA, the NIF or the GNR under a headline. SOURCES Government information, and its source: Weather warnings, fire risk, earthquakes: IPMA, https://www.ipma.pt/en/ Wildfires: ANEPC, https://prociv.gov.pt/ Holidays: Labour Code, https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/legislacao-consolidada/lei/2009-34546475 School calendar: Despacho 8368/2024, https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/despacho/8368-2024-873447631 Taxes: Portal das Finanças, https://www.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/ Social Security: https://www.seg-social.pt/ Land clearing: ICNF, https://www.icnf.pt/ Exchange rates: ECB, https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ Government of Portugal: https://www.portugal.gov.pt/ ePortugal: https://eportugal.gov.pt/ Madeira: https://www.madeira.gov.pt/ Azores: https://portal.azores.gov.pt/ Linked from the strike watch: CP trains, https://www.cp.pt/; Lisbon Metro, https://www.metrolisboa.pt/; Carris buses, https://www.carris.pt/ Everything else: News: The Portugal News, https://www.theportugalnews.com/ News: Portugal Resident, https://www.portugalresident.com/ News: Madeira Island News, https://www.madeiraislandnews.com/ News: Portugal Decoded, https://portugaldecoded.substack.com/ News: The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/portugal News: Euronews, https://www.euronews.com/ News: POLITICO Europe, https://www.politico.eu/ News through Google News, https://news.google.com/: Algarve Daily News, PortuGOAL, Portugalist, Lusa, Reuters, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Euractiv, DW, Al Jazeera, The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, CNN, Sky News, Le Monde, ESPN, Sky Sports, UEFA, OneFootball, Goal, World Surf League, Surfer, Idealista, ECO News, Time Out, Lonely Planet, Condé Nast Traveler Weather and sea: Open-Meteo, https://open-meteo.com/, and MET Norway, https://www.met.no/ Photos: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/, credited in the app Words and glossary: written for the app WHAT IT CAN'T DO Stories are the publishers' own; some ask you to subscribe. Fire and weather data can lag: in danger, follow the authorities and call 112. Free, with a single banner ad. A one-time purchase removes it.