What Portugal searched for on 16 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 15:20: combustível próxima semana (5K+), antónio costa (5K+), manifestação (2K+), médico de família (2K+), aeroporto (2K+), bragança (2K+).

• combustível próxima semana5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  From Monday, 19 October, diesel and petrol prices will again move in opposite directions. Based on this week's market prices, a litre of standard diesel (gasóleo simples) will go up by about 4.5 cents, and a litre of standard 95 petrol (gasolina simples) will go down by about 1.5 cents. For a 50-litre tank, that is about €2.25 more for diesel and about 75 cents less for petrol. This is a forecast, not an announced price: the actual price at the pump depends on the station and the brand.

  The forecast may still change: it does not include the new temporary discount on ISP fuel duty, which the government recalculates every Friday and is due to announce today, 16 October. This week the discount is 9.647 cents per litre of diesel and 7.804 cents per litre of petrol; parliament has approved keeping it until 31 December 2026.

  Today, 16 October, according to DGEG, the simple national average is €2.227 a litre for diesel and €2.174 a litre for 95 petrol, and the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive diesel is 48 cents (€1.939 and €2.419). If you drive a diesel car, it makes sense to fill up before Monday. Prices by district are on our page How much fuel costs in Portugal.

  Source: razaoautomovel.com

  

• manifestação · luís montenegro20K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  Since 10 October, a protest against high housing costs has been under way in central Porto, in Praça D. João I. The Housing Movement (Movimento pela Habitação) is demanding that the current rental law be scrapped, evictions stopped, investment funds banned from buying up homes, more public housing built and rent caps introduced. On the night of 15 October, police removed the protesters who had stayed in the square; according to the organisers, 39 people were injured, two of them seriously. A petition has also appeared calling for the resignation of the mayor of Porto, Pedro Duarte.

  On the night of 16 October, at about 01:20, the organisers themselves told protesters to go home: according to a spokesperson for the movement, people from other groups had joined the crowd, a fight broke out and one person was taken away by ambulance (ECO). The movement is calling on people to gather again on Saturday, 17 October.

  On the same day, 17 October, from 17:00, a similar housing protest camp is being set up in Rossio square in Lisbon. If you are in central Porto or Lisbon on Saturday, expect crowded squares and a heavy police presence. More in our article Housing protest in Porto goes on, and on 17 October a camp is being set up in Lisbon too.

  

• médico de família2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  Médico de família is the family doctor a person is registered with at their local health centre (centro de saúde). We don't know why people started searching for it today: the national meeting of USF family health units is taking place in Gondomar on 16 and 17 October, but there is no other news from the day.

  The background is this. In the SNS plan published on 4 September, the share of people registered with a family doctor is frozen at 85.3% until 2028, which means roughly one in seven people will remain without a doctor. The report accompanying the 2027 budget, which the government submitted to parliament in early October, names raising this share as a priority but gives no figure. The association of USF family health units, USF-AN, estimates that the country is currently short of 785 family doctors, and another 680 will retire by 2029.

  If you don't have a doctor of your own, you can renew prescriptions and get referrals at walk-in appointments at the health centre and through SNS 24. How to join the waiting list for a doctor and what to do until you get one is explained in our guide Family doctor in Portugal: how to get one and what to do until you do.

  Source: our guide

  

• aeroporto2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  Since 15 October, taxis from the rank at Lisbon airport have charged a fixed fare for trips within the city rather than using the meter. Nearby neighbourhoods, including Alvalade, Areeiro, Avenidas Novas, Lumiar, Olivais, Parque das Nações and a few others, cost €16; the rest of Lisbon, from Belém to Benfica, costs €19. At night from 22:00 to 07:00, at weekends and on public holidays, the fares are €20 and €23 respectively.

  You can pay in cash, by card or with MB Way at no extra charge: drivers are required to accept electronic payment. Prepaid vouchers are sold at the Turismo de Lisboa (Lisbon Tourism) desk in the arrivals area. Trips outside the city, even to neighbouring Moscavide and Sacavém, are still charged by the meter.

  Not everything is in place yet: there are no checks at the rank entrance on whether a car is authorised, and there are no price signs in the arrivals hall. According to the Taxi Federation, everything will be ready in early November, so it is best to tell the driver the fixed fare before you get in. More in our article From 15 October a taxi from the airport within Lisbon costs €16–⁠23.

  

• antónio costa5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  At the EU summit on 15–⁠16 October, leaders failed to agree on the EU budget for 2028–⁠2034; further negotiations have been handed to former Portuguese prime minister António Costa, President of the European Council. No deadline has been set.

  Source: observador.pt

• bragança2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  On 15 October in Bragança, a father took his three-year-old daughter, and relatives went after him by car; a series of collisions at the entrance to the A4 left seven people injured, one seriously. The Judicial Police (PJ) has taken over the case.

  Source: observador.pt

• sismo · epicentro · sismos portugal · espanha5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  On the evening of 15 October, at 21:34, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake centred in Spain, about 70 km from Bragança, was felt in the north of the country. There was no damage and no one was hurt.

  Source: observador.pt

• prisão1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 19:35

  On 15 October, the Supreme Court cut former economy minister Manuel Pinho's prison sentence in the bribery case linked to EDP and banker Ricardo Salgado from 10 years to 8 years and 6 months.

  Source: observador.pt