What Portugal searched for on 22 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 12:20: hospital (20K+), pagamento (10K+), associação picapau (5K+), santarém (5K+), sindicato (2K+), demissão (2K+).

• verão1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Hora de verão means summer time. In the early hours of Sunday, 25 October, Portugal switches to winter time: on the mainland and in Madeira the clocks go back from 2:00 to 1:00, and in the Azores from 1:00 to midnight. You get an extra hour in bed. Phones and computers change automatically; clocks in the car, on the oven and on the wall need to be changed by hand. Night trains and flights run on the new time, so if something leaves between 1:00 and 2:00, check the timetable with the operator.

  

• coimbra1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  In Coimbra on 22 October, university students gathered at the Porta Férrea gate to protest against higher tuition fees; the day before, there was a protest outside the government's offices in Lisbon. Under the draft 2027 budget, the cap on tuition fees at public universities (€697 a year for bachelor's degrees, CTeSP courses and integrated master's degrees, frozen since 2020) will rise from the 2027/2028 academic year in line with 2026 annual inflation, excluding housing. Parliament will decide when it votes on the budget; last year the same measure was removed from it. The next protest in Coimbra is on 28 October at 17:30 by the D. Dinis monument. There is more on fees in our article on the 2027 budget and in the guide How to get into university in Portugal.

  Source: observador.pt

  

• hospital20K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Hospital means hospital. We don't know why people are searching for it today in particular.

• pagamento10K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Pagamento means payment. We don't know why people are searching for it today in particular.

• associação picapau5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  In Santarém on 20 October, a 46-year-old worker at Associação Picapau, a drug addiction treatment centre, was killed when his scooter collided with a car.

• santarém5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  In Santarém, a 53-year-old town council worker was killed in a tractor accident on 21 October, and on 22 October the Festival Nacional de Gastronomia opened in the town. It runs until 1 November.

  Source: sol.iol.pt

• sindicato2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Unions this week: on 21 October the CGTP brought people onto the streets of Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra to demand higher wages and pensions, and CP ticket inspectors and ticket office staff called a strike for 30 October, so trains may be cancelled from the 29th to the 31st. We don't know exactly what people were searching for today.

• demissão2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  On 22 October, Left Bloc MP Fabian Figueiredo called for the resignation of Benjamim Pereira, head of the IHRU (the state Institute for Housing and Urban Renewal), and for him to be summoned urgently to parliament. Pereira had questioned whether today's young people are ready to make the sacrifices their parents made to buy their own homes.

  Source: rr.pt

• jerónimo martins1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Jerónimo Martins, the owner of the Pingo Doce chain, has given its foundation another €40 million to help victims of Storm Kristin in Portugal and of the earthquake in Colombia.

• oliveira do hospital1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  In Oliveira do Hospital (Coimbra district), a tractor overturned and the 22-year-old driver was taken by INEM helicopter to hospital in Viseu.

• isenção fiscal1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  Isenção fiscal means tax exemption. We don't know why people are searching for it today in particular. Under the draft 2027 budget, which parliament will debate on 28 October, home buyers under 35 will not have to pay IMT on homes worth up to €338,141.

• eurofighter typhoon · lockheed martin2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 10:04

  By early November, the Eurofighter consortium will offer the government its Typhoon fighters to replace the Portuguese Air Force's F-16s. The deal would cover 14–⁠28 aircraft and be worth up to €5 billion; no decision has been made yet. By the end of November, its American rival Lockheed Martin will invite four Portuguese companies to bid to make F-35 parts.

  Source: eco.sapo.pt