Portugal Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Dec 8, 2025

Updated: December 8, 2025

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Portugal Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Portugal. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Portugal - Address Format

An address format in Portugal contains the following elements:

Recipient’s name
Business or department name (if applicable)
Street name and House number
Hamlet (applicable in rural areas)
Postal Code ( 7 {4-3} digits) and City
Country – PORTUGAL (in all caps)

John Smith
Estr. de São Luís 114
8000-239 Faro
PORTUGAL

Portugal Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
Quinta da Várzea
Marecos
6120-301 Ponte de Sor
PORTUGAL

Example 2:

Portugal Post Office
R. Morais Soares 66 A
1900-998 Lisboa
PORTUGAL

Postal and Country Information for Portugal

Country/territory name	Portugal
ISO codes	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: PT ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: PRT ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 620
Administrative area count	20
Administration area names and abbreviations	Aveiro District Beja Braga Braganza District Castelo Branco Coimbra Evora Faro Guarda Leiria Lisbon District Portalegre Porto Santarem Setubal Viana do Castelo Vila Real Viseu Azores Madeira	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 30
Term to describe postal codes	Código postal
Postal code format	9999-999
Population	10 192 141
Total land area	92 217km²

How to Validate Addresses for Portugal Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Portugal addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Portugal, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

Address Database to validate Street Names, Hamlets, Postal Codes and Cities in Portugal
Postal Database if you only need to validate Hamlets, Postal Codes and Cities in Portugal
Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Portugal segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Portugal using:

Street column to validate Street names
Locality column to validate Hamlet names
Postcode column to validate Postal Codes
Post Town column to validate City names

Explore our Portugal address database.

Our location dataset for Portugal

Portugal ZIP Codes

Portugal uses a “Código postal” system, which is a seven-digit numeric format like 9999-999, with a hyphen separating the fourth and fifth digits. This means it uses only numbers, unlike US ZIP codes which are also numeric. However, US ZIP codes are five digits long, compared to Portugal’s seven-digit format. According to the GeoPostcodes world postal code database, Portugal has 195,782 postal codes covering 3,420 regions and 33,200 towns.

Portugal ZIP & Administrative boundaries

Portugal administrative landscape often follows inconsistent regional models and irregular public sources, making it difficult to maintain reliable boundaries. Our standardized postal and administrative boundary data resolves these gaps to ensure complete, coherent geographic coverage.

Portugal Administrative Divisions

GeoPostcodes provides a standardized reference for Portugal’s address structure, ensuring consistent, accurate, and globally aligned formatting across your systems. The dataset captures the official address elements required by the national postal operator and maps them into our unified global schema.