Portugal: the baby vaccination calendar
In short
- From birth to 5 years, the calendar has 7 visits.
- First visit, Birth: Hepatitis B.
- This is the national calendar published by DGS (Programa Nacional de Vacinação).
- Your health centre sets the actual appointments. If its date differs from a calendar, follow your health centre.
What is given at each age?
After that, at school age: 10 years.
Checked against Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, gov.pt, the State services portal (AMA), Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria (Criança e Família), checked on 11 October 2026
“O presente PNV substitui, a partir de outubro de 2025, o PNV 2020 (Norma n.º 18/2020 de 27/09/2020).”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026“a vacina hexavalente (2 meses e 6 meses) inclui VHB; Hib; DTPa e VIP, a vacina pentavalente (4 meses e 18 meses) inclui Hib, DTPa e VIP, e a vacina tetravalente (5 anos) inclui DTPa e VIP;”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026A table on this official page, read cell by cell.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, read on 11 October 2026“A vacina VHB incluída no PNV é administrada num esquema de 3 doses: a 1ª dose é administrada ao nascimento, a 2ª dose aos 2 meses de idade, a 3ª dose aos 6 meses de idade.”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026“A vacinação ao nascimento, deve ser administrada nas primeiras 24 horas de vida, na maternidade.”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026“De acordo com o Programa Nacional de Vacinação, os pais devem levar os bebés ao Centro de Saúde para tomarem as vacinas da BCG e anti-hepatite B, caso o bebé não tenha tomado essas vacinas na maternidade.”
gov.pt, the State services portal (AMA), read on 11 October 2026A table on this official page, read cell by cell.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, read on 11 October 2026“Substituição da vacina Pn13 pela vacina Pn20 aos 2, 4 e 12 meses de idade.”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026A table on this official page, read cell by cell.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, read on 11 October 2026“Introdução da vacina MenACWY no esquema geral recomendado do Programa Nacional de Vacinação (PNV) aos 12 meses de idade, em substituição da vacina MenC;”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026“Manutenção da vacina MenB, de acordo com o PNV1, aos 2, 4 e 12 meses de idade;”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026“A vacina contra doença invasiva (meningite e sépsis) por Neisseria meningitidis do grupo B para todas as crianças, aos 2, 4 e 12 meses de idade, aplicável aos nascidos a partir de 1 de janeiro de 2019;”
Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria (Criança e Família), read on 11 October 2026A table on this official page, read cell by cell.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, read on 11 October 2026“A VASPR é administrada num esquema de 2 doses: a 1ª dose é administrada aos 12 meses de idade e a 2ª dose aos 5 anos de idade”
Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS), read on 11 October 2026A table on this official page, read cell by cell.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Vaccine Scheduler, read on 11 October 2026
Whose calendar is this?
DGS (Programa Nacional de Vacinação), edition 3 Oct 2025. We read it on the official page and cross-checked it with a second official publisher.
Open the official calendarDoes your region have its own calendar?
Syncry shows the national calendar from DGS (Programa Nacional de Vacinação). We have not compared local programmes line by line, so if your health service gives you a different date, follow it.
Questions parents ask
Portugal: is the calendar the same everywhere?
Syncry shows the national calendar from DGS (Programa Nacional de Vacinação). We have not compared local programmes line by line, so if your health service gives you a different date, follow it.
What if a dose was missed?
Ask your health centre or paediatrician: they decide how to catch up, based on your baby’s age and the vaccine. In the app, a missed visit stays in view, gently marked, until you record it.
How current is this calendar?
It is the 3 Oct 2025 edition from DGS (Programa Nacional de Vacinação), last checked on 11 October 2026. Every week a program re-reads the official pages behind it and flags any that changed; a flagged visit says “being re-checked” until it is read again.
Portugal: your baby’s own vaccine dates
Syncry dates every visit from your baby’s birth or due date, reminds you the week before, together or on your own, keeps a missed visit in view until it is done, and lets you tick off each dose as you go. When an official calendar changes, the app says so.