Art, cooking and an unhurried wander.
October is a good month for a flexible city plan: an indoor visit that interests you, a table for lunch and a walk you can shorten. Keep a hands-on activity in reserve if the weather asks for a different afternoon.
For Lisbon in October, use the monthly climate as planning context, then check the daily forecast closer to your trip. Choose a date in the calendar for programmes with published dates, and keep longer exhibitions and festival periods separate. Pick one indoor option and one neighbourhood stop so the day can stay flexible.
SEASONAL AVERAGE · NOT A DAILY FORECAST
IPMA · Instituto Geofísico station 535 · 1991–2020 monthly normals. These are not daily extremes, a forecast for this year or a count of rain days already observed.
The forecast covers only the next seven days when available. Later travel dates keep their seasonal averages until a forecast is published.
DAYLIGHT · CALCULATED ESTIMATE
For 15 Oct 2026 · Lisbon city-centre reference
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Lisbon clock & calculation details →YOUR MONTH, ONE DAY AT A TIME
51 programmes and 1 additional festival editions currently listed for this month. Coverage is partial; a missing listing does not mean there is nothing on.
Date numbers count programmes with explicit published dates, not daily performances inside longer periods. Terracotta outline: today. Select a date to update the lists and daylight estimate.
24 Oct 2026
Teatro Politeama
Filipe La Féria’s Mil Vezes Revista is a Portuguese revue at Teatro Politeama in Lisbon. Marina Mota, Joaquim Monchique, Paula Sá and Miguel Dias lead a cast of actors, singers and dancers accompanied by a live orchestra. The production uses music and satire to address power, vanity, fashion and fear. BOL lists the age classification as pending; check the selected performance’s admission conditions.
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24 Oct 2026
Boutique da Cultura - Um Teatro em Cada Bairro
Three jealous vampire siblings plot to take Dracula’s prize at a Halloween awards gala. Boutique da Cultura turns spells, muddled messages and failed schemes into a playful stage adventure. Pick this for a comic take on spooky characters, then check the specific performance and age guidance for your family.
Session details & tickets →29 Oct 2026
Coliseu de Lisboa
Herman José revisits more than four decades of his career, weaving his iconic characters with backstage stories, stand‑up moments and a strong musical element.
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31 Oct 2026
Teatro Armando Cortez
Mowgli brings Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book to Teatro Armando Cortez, with music, movement and a story about people and nature. Mowgli and Shanti try to connect their different worlds while facing Shere Khan. Choose a family weekend performance; weekday sessions are for schools. The theatre lists Saturdays at 15:00 and Sundays at 11:00 during the announced run.
Session details & tickets →31 Oct 2026
Coliseu de Lisboa
Bashment opens at the Coliseu Club for its Halloween Special Edition, featuring a vibrant mix of Dancehall, Shatta, Bouyon, Afrobeats and Amapiano. The night promises high energy and a hot atmosphere in Lisbon’s most exciting club setting.
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24 Oct 2026
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
CAM uses the storytelling world of One Thousand and One Nights to explore its collection. Think gallery visit and stories told through artworks, not a staged performance of the tales.
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24 Oct 2026
Padrão dos Descobrimentos
At Padrão dos Descobrimentos, this exhibition follows the monument’s image from 1940 onwards. Objects and visual references show how a familiar Lisbon landmark became part of everyday culture; this is an exhibition, not a house tour.
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24 Oct 2026
MAC/CCB
Orupabo brings colonial archives, family portraits and fragments of popular culture into conversation at MAC/CCB. Her image-based work explores intimacy, violence and the overwhelming flow of digital images. A thoughtful gallery stop in Belém.
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24 Oct 2026
Cordoaria Nacional
Large models, film-inspired worlds, an interactive play area and a trick-photo gallery fill Cordoaria Nacional. A family-friendly exhibition rather than a guided building workshop; confirm current ticket and age rules.
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24 Oct 2026
Pavilhão Julião Sarmento
At Pavilhão Julião Sarmento, Araújo’s installations, photographs, videos and other works explore psychological and existential questions. Books of watercolours inspired by a journey to southern South America are among the works; this is a gallery visit, not a scheduled live performance.
Session details & tickets →24 Oct 2026
Chapitô
Companhia do Chapitô turns Saramago’s question about blank votes into political satire. Humour leads into questions of democracy and power at Chapitô on Costa do Castelo. Choose a performance and check its language before booking.
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24 Oct 2026
Contemporary photography meets influential historical work in exhibitions spread across Lisbon. Pick a specific exhibition and its venue from the festival programme before setting off; the festival listing does not mean every activity happens at one address.
Session details & tickets →Showing 12 of 31 programmes in this selection.
These periods are not proof of a session or opening on each date. Confirm the visit or actual session with the organiser.
24 Oct 2026
Museu das Ilusões
At the Museum of Illusions in Chiado, optical installations, puzzling rooms and visual challenges put perception at the centre of the visit. It is a hands-on stop for a group that wants to explore together. Check access for your party: the organiser notes that two exhibits have steps, even though the museum offers reduced-mobility access.
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24 Oct 2026
Sala Subterrânea da Estação do Metro Terreiro do Paço
A shared virtual-reality journey turns astronomy into something you can move through. Developed with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it follows a route from an observatory to distant stars and a black hole. Choose this for an immersive science outing rather than a conventional museum gallery.
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Programme until 31 Dec 2027
Museu Banksy Lisbon, Rua Viriato 25B, Lisboa
Graffiti, films and installations introduce Banksy’s political and social ideas. The museum displays reproductions, not a collection of original street works—useful to know before choosing this stop.
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Programme until 31 Dec 2026
Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta
Devrim Erbil’s city landscapes connect Istanbul and Lisbon through colour and urban rhythm. A painting-led stop at Palácio Pimenta, rather than a talk or a city walking tour.
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Programme until 11 Jan 2027
Gulbenkian · check the programme for the room
Rosana Antolí combines a sculpture on the garden pond with birdsong, electronic music and a soprano voice. This is an art-and-sound installation in Gulbenkian’s South Garden, not a live opera ticket or a talk.
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Programme until 20 Sept 2027
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna
See collection works that usually stay out of the galleries, in a space also used by museum professionals. This is a supervised, limited-capacity visit; check the published entry slots before arriving.
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Programme until 6 Dec 2026
Casa Fernando Pessoa
At Casa Fernando Pessoa, this exhibition follows how biographies, publishing and translations kept the writer’s work alive after 1935. Books, film excerpts and documents make it more than a simple timeline.
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Programme until 31 Dec 2026
Browse stalls around the garden: antiques and crafts on some dates, organic produce on others. The year-long listing covers several recurring markets, not a market that opens every day.
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Programme until 30 Nov 2026
Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações – Museu das Comunicações
Papyrus, paper, plant-based inks and letter seals connect botany with communication history. A museum exhibition near Santos that makes familiar materials feel a little less ordinary.
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Programme until 11 Jan 2027
MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
At MAAT Central, works by Portuguese artists trace the collection from the 1960s onwards. A broad introduction to contemporary art, with photographs, sculpture and other media to explore.
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Programme until 25 Oct 2026
Centro Cultural de Belém
Patricia Domínguez, Ines Doujak and Lubaina Himid bring different generations and perspectives to this MAC/CCB exhibition. Their work explores storytelling beyond a single, controlled account of the world.
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Programme until 26 Oct 2026
MACAM - Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Photographs from the Américo Marques collection bring together different generations and ways of seeing. A MACAM stop for anyone drawn to contemporary photography, rather than a photography workshop.
Session details & tickets →Showing 12 of 20 longer programmes.
Browse the full October 2026 event calendar →
15 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026 · edition period, not individual daily sessions
Documentary discoveries, not one all-day ticket. Pick the film, cinema, screening time and subtitle language in the programme.
Official edition & booking ↗Programme snapshot updated 2026-10-24 18:11 UTC. This is not a manual check of every session or live ticket availability.
A light waterproof layer and shoes with grip are useful planning choices. Recheck the forecast before booking the long outdoor part of the day.
The figures above are the 1991–2020 monthly climate normals for Lisbon's Instituto Geofísico station. An average daily high or low is not an extreme, and an average rain-day count does not tell you which days will be wet. Check the daily forecast and current warnings before an outdoor commitment.
Try an exhibition, a cooking workshop or a Chiado bookshop-and-pastry pairing. Use the exact venue and day in the calendar rather than assuming a festival range means a session every day.
Choose a meal near the part of the city you want to explore. Our neighbourhood and food guides keep the existing place notes, branch details and saved-list links together. For a bigger route, Plan my days can combine places with announced dated sessions; the final booking stays with the venue.
Numbers on the dates count programmes with published single dates or explicit session dates, not a ticket for each listed idea. An exhibition period or booking window never turns into a session on every date between its endpoints. Select a day to see its dated programmes and the separate longer periods.
The event and festival lists come from our existing saved programme sources. They are partial coverage, not everything happening in Lisbon. Check the organiser's session, language, age, access and ticket terms before you arrange the rest of the day. A dated programme is not evidence of a seat being available.
Sunrise and sunset here are calculated for the public city-centre reference point and the displayed date, in Lisbon time. They are rounded estimates, not a forecast of visible sunshine; hills, buildings and clouds change what you actually see.
Use the date with a reservation time and check the return journey for a late evening. A sunset estimate, an ordinary Metro operating window and a specific transport connection are different pieces of information.
If the weather or a booking changes, shorten the outdoor stretch rather than replacing it with three distant stops. A café, an indoor visit or a workshop from our guide can give the day a new shape without starting again from scratch.
Save the places you want to keep to My Lisbon on this device. For a ticketed activity, keep the confirmation and exact meeting point available before you leave. The monthly programme can change, so revisit the organiser's information close to the date.
No. It uses IPMA's 1991–2020 monthly climate normals. The average low, high and number of days with at least 1 mm of rain are seasonal context, not a prediction for individual travel dates.
Do not assume so. Calendar counts use explicit published dates. Longer programme periods are shown separately; use the organiser's own session or opening information before booking.
The calendar shows the next occurrence of October within the current twelve-month planning window. The displayed year applies to the announced events; the climate figures are historical monthly averages.
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